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Report: SMEs Are Prime Targets and Must Plan for Disaster Recovery

SecureWorld News

Small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) often do not have the resources to protect themselves from cybercriminals with bad intentions, leaving them vulnerable to financial and productivity losses, operation disruptions, extortion payments, settlement costs, and regulatory fines. The key is to minimize any damage. Back up all data.

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Ransomware Evolves: Entire Hospital Including Emergency Rooms Disrupted

CTOvision

The typical organization already has firewalls, anti virus solutions, encrypted data solutions, data backups, network monitoring and security information management tools to hold data on how all that is working. But still the malware gets in. The malware gets in. Most will also have in place user training programs.

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Data protection giant Veeam moves HQ to Seattle region, tops $1.5B in annual recurring revenue

GeekWire

Anand Eswaran , who joined Veeam as CEO in December 2021, previously worked out of Redmond as the corporate vice president of Microsoft Enterprise. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The company’s growth underscores the growing focus on data protection and backup amid the rise of ransomware and other cyber threats.

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Top 5 Security Trends for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

A second, more pernicious risk is the fact that ChatGPT can write malware. Sometimes the malware has errors, but with simple repetition the hacker can generate multiple working versions of the code. Such polymorphic malware is particularly hard to detect, because it may be different from one attack to another.

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One of the Best Things You Can Do as a CIO

CIO Business Intelligence

This article aims to provide you with a practical framework to improve your enterprise data protection. Together, immutable snapshots, air gapping, a fenced forensic environment, and rapid recovery time bring a much-needed new level of enterprise-grade cyber resilience to an organization. But where do you start? That is the question.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

The outage was traced to a damaged database file; a contractor was working to correct a problem with the synchronization between live and backup databases and ended up corrupting both. And arise it did on January 24, when a Chicago employee failed to turn the backup server off at the appropriate time.

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ExtraHop package captures files before ransomware encrypts them

Network World

The best defense against ransomware has been comprehensive backup, but ExtraHop is introducing a way to capture files just before ransomware encrypts them, making it possible to restore them but without relying on the backups. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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