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Facebook starts rolling out end-to-end encrypted backups to WhatsApp

The Verge

WhatsApp’s end-to-end encrypted chat backups for iOS and Android are available starting Thursday, Facebook announced. The company has offered end-to-end encryption for chats for years, but with this new change, you can get that same level of encryption with your backups.

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WhatsApp is adding encrypted backups

The Verge

WhatsApp will let its more than 2 billion users fully encrypt the backups of their messages, the Facebook-owned app announced Friday. WhatsApp users who opt into encrypted backups will be asked to save a 64-digit encryption key or create a password that is tied to the key. We expect to get criticized by some for this”.

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Ransomware Prevention Kit

Tech Republic Security

Learn actionable tactics for IT departments on how to manage backups and enable staff so that ransomware is no longer a mythical threat, but a controlled risk. Secure Backup is your best line of Defense. The Ransomware Prevention Kit includes: Proprietary white paper Ransomware Simulation NEW! Veeam Data Platform demo

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Achieve scalable cyber resiliency in the cloud during an age of exponential data growth

CIO Business Intelligence

The upshot of all these environments, platforms and data types is that data becomes siloed, which means that each has its own storage and protection policies, and frequently different backup and disaster recovery systems. To learn more read IDC’s white paper, Improving Data Resilience with a Cloud-first Approach Cloud Computing

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What Is Critical Software? NIST Defines It

SecureWorld News

Backup/recovery and remote storage. See more details in the new NIST white paper on critical software defined. Remote scanning 10. Remote access and configuration management 11. And let us know what you think in the comments.

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How to reduce backup costs with energy-smart storage

Data Center Knowledge

With such a big boom in data and storage - learn some best practices around controlling the data, making it much more resilient, and deploying it on disks capable of good energy utilization and high-capacity. Read More.

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Cloud File Data Storage Consolidation and Economic Comparison Model #blogtobertech

Storage IO Blog

Cloud File Data Storage Consolidation and Economic Comparison Model #blogtobertech The following is a new Industry Trends Perspective White Paper Report titled Cloud File Data Storage Consolidation and Economic Comparison Model.