Advancing the Security of Business-Critical Backups Against Ransomware with Sophos and Veeam

Ransomware actors almost always attempt to compromise their victims’ backups to increase the pressure to pay. When they succeed, the outcomes are significantly worse: ransom demands double and overall recovery costs are 8X higher. Threat actors almost always attempt to compromise backup repositories, recognizing that holding data hostage is the best way to ensure a significant payout. Having your backups compromised results in significantly worse outcomes.  

Safeguarding your valuable backup data is a key objective in the face of the escalating sophistication of ransomware attacks. Coordinating your cybersecurity and cyber recovery strategies gives you the best chance of defending against, and recovering from, a ransomware attack. 

Hear Dave Mareels, Senior Director, Product Management at Sophos and Ray Heffer, Field CISO at Veeam, as they share real-world insights and tactics employed by today’s adversaries, along with key warning signs of attempted backup environment compromise.  In this session, they outline best practices and recommendations for building a holistic cyber risk reduction strategy to detect and stop malicious actors before they infiltrate your backups—providing peace of mind that your data is always available and easily recoverable.