Posts by Chris Hoff

The prevalence of cyber threats and ransomware is create a lot of fear, uncertainty, doubt and lies. Possibly the biggest area of misunderstanding is how ransomware interacts with systems and infrastructure. Read more

This year will mark the ten-year anniversary of CryptoLocker which, in many ways, started most people’s relationship with ransomware. That’s a long time to be talking about just one type of threat, so it’s understandable that some security professionals treat new reports of these breaches as white noise. The trouble is that the more we treat every attack as the same old thing, the easier it is for attackers to make changes to their tactics and improve their success rates. Read more

The effectiveness of ransomware attacks has caused organizations to move from a threat prevention strategy to a cyber resilience strategy giving them the ability to respond to a security breach to mitigate damage while enabling data recovery to restore normal operations. This shift has caused more companies to look at backup and recovery as part of the security stack. The holistic approach to attacks acknowledges that even with best-in-class defensive tools, you won’t have 100% prevention. A cyber resilient strategy allows organizations to mitigate an attack while also protecting data integrity and enabling recovery to normal business operations. Read more

Television and movies would have us believe cybercriminals have to execute complex plans that involve rappelling from rooftops and avoiding lasers to break into our networks. In reality, it only takes a well-crafted email and a distracted person to start a chain of events that can cost millions of dollars to repair. While that seems like a simple problem to solve, multiple layers of security controls needed to fail for the ransomware attack to succeed.  Read more

According to the Veeam 2022 Data Protection Trends Report, 76% of companies admitted to being attacked by ransomware in 2021. If we broaden the question and asked how many companies experienced a cyberattack, the number would be closer to 100%. Some of the main reasons ransomware has been so successful include the low cost of entry and high return on investment for the attackers.  Read more

Veeam recently published the largest independent ransomware research project of its kind, the 2022 Ransomware Trends Report. While much of that research focused on the pervasiveness of the attack and the technologies used before or after, a few significant learnings came from comparing the views from the four personas that were surveyed. Read more

People have asked what we mean when we say, “secure backup is your last line of defense.” Over the last ten years, the security industry has realized modern ransomware protection requires an integrated security architecture from endpoints to network and cloud to detect, correlate and remediate attacks completely. Read more