Welcome to this in-depth guide on Microsoft 365 ransomware attacks. The digital age has brought unprecedented convenience and capabilities to our fingertips. Read more

Microsoft 365 is the cornerstone of business communication worldwide, containing invaluable intellectual property and business-critical applications. It is vital to understand the threats to this landscape and how to mitigate the risks with native security and monitoring tools. In this blog, we will take a deeper look at these challenges, some steps you can take today to ensure these assets are protected, and some of the potential risks accepted by not acting. Lastly, we’ll cover how Veeam’s backup service can help with Microsoft 365 compliance needs. Read more

Veeam has close to two decades of history in delivering market-leading data protection and ransomware recovery solutions on a global scale. We are dedicated to providing our customers with freedom of choice within our product set, and this commitment led us to an important milestone in our history. In early 2024, we announced Veeam Data Cloud, a solution that provides resilient data protection and data recovery for multi-cloud data — all delivered through cloud-native backup and storage services. Read more

Imagine this: your business-critical application goes offline unexpectedly. Every minute of downtime could mean lost revenue, frustrated customers, and operational chaos. The question is — how quickly can you recover? This is where Recovery Time Objective (RTO) becomes critical. Read more

As businesses increasingly migrate to virtualized environments, service providers are on the lookout for robust solutions that offer the flexibility of cloud infrastructure and the cost-effectiveness of on-premises systems. Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) is a powerful open-source platform that increasingly stands out as an excellent choice for service providers aiming to implement multi-tenant architectures. In this blog, we will explore how service providers can effectively leverage Proxmox in multi-tenant environments alongside Veeam for complete data resilience. Read more

In December 1989, an evolutionary biologist named Dr. Joseph Popp sent out a floppy disk to around 20,000 people, marking the beginning of what would become the first known ransomware virus in history. The recipients of this disk were attendees at a World Health Organization conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Upon inserting the disk into their computers, they were greeted with a message demanding $189 be sent to a PO Box in Panama. Read more

Hybrid cloud scalability is an essential aspect of modern IT infrastructure. By integrating on-premises and cloud resources, organizations gain the ability to manage dynamic workloads efficiently, ensuring uninterrupted operations. This scalability becomes especially vital as businesses grow, impacting both their performance and continuity. Read more

Staying competitive in today’s business world is no small feat. Enterprises face constant pressure to adapt to new technologies and meet ever-evolving customer expectations. For many, modernizing legacy applications has become a critical step in achieving this adaptability. Read more

The State of Federal Government Cybersecurity

Government operations, public services, policy decisions, and other functions are all driven by highly distributed data stored on-premises and in hybrid multi-cloud environments. To counter adversaries in a post-quantum future, government entities must speed up the adoption of new data protection strategies and tactics as part of their modernization efforts.

Why now? The threat is real. The AES 256 encryption schemes used in most government and enterprise systems are ripe for decryption by nation states like China. Legacy data monitoring and management tools joined by swivel chairs do not adequately address governments’ current or future data security, resilience, and portability needs. Nor do they provide visibility and control across the entire data ecosystem.

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Introduction

In this increasingly digital world, data loss can have devastating consequences for organizations. This ranges everything from outages and natural disasters to cyberattacks, and can result in inaccessible systems and lost data. These disruptions can result in significant operational disruption, financial losses, legal repercussions, and irreparable damage to reputation and customer trust.

Cyberattacks pose a significant risk for organizations of all sizes and industries. Now, organizations not only need to enhance their cyber defenses, they have to focus on proactively improving their recovery plans and procedures too. According to the Veeam 2024 Ransomware Trends report, 63% of organizations restored backups directly back into their production environment without employing some type of quarantine or scanning method ... Read more