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World Backup Day on March 31 Seeks to Protect Data Before It's Gone

SecureWorld News

However, data is as vulnerable as it is valuable, and World Backup Day on Friday, March 31st, is a welcome reminder of the need to have a well thought out data protection strategy in place. The campaign began in 2011 as World Backup Month and was changed to World Backup Day later.

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

SecureWorld News

This is the gist of a new report titled " A New Age of Disaster Recovery Planning for SMEs " (download required) produced by MIT Technology Review Insights and sponsored by OVHcloud. Here are some of the highlights and key findings from the 19-page report. SMEs are becoming more frequent targets of cyberattacks. Back up all data.

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The Toll of Ransomware is Growing

CTOvision

Ransomware is different than other malware and viruses because it is nearly impossible to break on your own. Most companies reported that they know what they need to do to increase their security levels, but it often just falls through the cracks. Each attack took about 42 hours to fix.

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

GeekWire

In a report last year , IDC ranked Veeam as the top company in data replication and protection by market share, ahead of competitors including Dell, IBM, Veritas, Commvault, and others. The proximity to the major cloud providers strengthens those relationships as those marketplaces become more significant to adoption.

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Ransomware Evolves: Entire Hospital Including Emergency Rooms Disrupted

CTOvision

For more details on the attack see this NBC Los Angles Report. 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.

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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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Ransomware’s Number 1 Target? Your Kid’s School

SecureWorld News

And the MS-ISAC says K-12 school districts are now the most likely to suffer from and report a successful ransomware attack. However, when schools began to start up again in August and September, that number rose to 57%, making K-12 districts the most likely entities in the United States to suffer from and report a ransomware attack.

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