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Five Backup Lessons Learned – From The UnitedHealth Ransomware Attack

Five Backup Lessons Learned – From The UnitedHealth Ransomware Attack

UnitedHealth Congressional Testimony Reveals Failed Backup Strategy The ransomware attack on UnitedHealth earlier this year is quickly becoming the healthcare industry’s version of Colonial Pipeline, prompting congressional
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Storage & Data Protection Trends & Innovations To Watch in 2025

It’s all about the data.  One thing is clear. The “business value” of data continues to grow, making it an organization’s primary piece of intellectual property. And from

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How StorageGuard Can Assist With CISA’s Advised Mitigations For Newly Emerged BlackSuit Ransomware 

In August, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a joint alert about the emergence of BlackSuit ransomware,

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Enhancing Enterprise Security with the Essential Eight and StorageGuard  

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has developed the Essential Eight, a set of baseline mitigation strategies designed to protect organizations against a wide range of

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Exploitable Storage and Backup Vulnerabilities: A Growing Threat to Enterprise Security  

On July 29, a critical vulnerability in Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (ACI), tracked as CVE-2023-45249, was highlighted by CISA as being actively exploited by malicious actors.   This

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Trust But Verify: The Challenge With Outsourcing Security Of Your Storage & Backups To MSPs

Organizations are increasingly outsourcing their storage and backup operations to managed service providers (MSPs). While this strategy can offer cost savings, it also introduces severe risks,

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Catch My Drift? How To Easily Manage Configuration Drift In Your Storage & Backup Systems 

Configuration drift happens when the configurations of storage & backup systems and software deviate from a baseline or standard configuration over time. When this happens, it

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Backup Blog Bites #5: Building a Solid Backup Asset Inventory

Given the importance of backup and recovery systems in any organization, maintaining a comprehensive and up-to-date inventory of all backup infrastructure is critical.  A general-purpose inventory

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Backup Blog Bites #4: How To Validate The Configuration Of Your Immutable Backups

The integration between backup software and a disk array is crucial for implementing immutable backups. To achieve backup immutability, the backup software needs to leverage the

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Backup Blog Bites #3: The Backup Immutability Do’s & Don’ts Checklist 

Since backups are becoming lucrative targets for cybercriminals, vendors like Cohesity, Commvault, Dell, Rubrik, Veeam and Veritas have responded with new ransomware protection features – including immutability. 

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Storage & Backups Under Attack. This Is What To Do About It

Over the past few months there has been a significant increase in publicized attacks on storage & backup systems, e.g. You can read more about these

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Backup Blog Bites #2: To AD Or Not To AD Your Backup System? That Is The Question 

When it comes to backups, there’s an interesting debate as to whether you should connect your backup systems to Active Directory (AD) or not, and for

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Backup Blog Bites #1: Is Your Immutable Backup Vulnerable to Time Spoofing Attacks?

What this is about?  This time-based attack happens when an attacker manipulates insufficiently-secure time sync configuration to trick the backup systems into thinking that “X” number

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After The Johnson Controls Ransomware Attack, Here’s An 8-Point Security Checklist For Your Backups

On September 27th, Johnson Controls International announced a massive ransomware attack, that encrypted many of the company devices, including VMware ESXi servers. This impacted the company’s

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StorageGuard vs Rapid7 InsightVM: A Comprehensive Comparison

In the world of cybersecurity, staying ahead of threats and vulnerabilities requires a multifaceted approach. Two prominent solutions in this field are StorageGuard and Rapid7 InsightVM. While both tools have distinct focuses, they also complement each other in ways that can significantly enhance an organization’s security posture. In this blog post, we will delve into the key features, benefits, and how these two solutions work together seamlessly.

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Validating the Security Posture of Cohesity DataPlatform with StorageGuard

StorageGuard’s security validation checks cover a wide range of system components, access controls, authentication mechanisms, encryption settings, monitoring configurations, and more. These checks are specifically tailored to ensure that Cohesity DataPlatform adheres to industry best practices and security standards.

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6 Things Financial Services CISOs Should Do To Prepare For The New Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)

To ensure compliance with DORA and to get ahead of the regulators, CISOs should take the following 6 steps to ensure that their storage and backup systems are secure and resilient

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Don’t Rely On Immutable Backup For Protection Against Ransomware

StorageGuard plays a critical role in your cyber resiliency strategy, by helping you increase usage & adoption of your existing data protection tools – and subsequently get more out of your current investment.

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To Fight Ransomware, We Need to Fill The Cultural Gap

In the past two years, cybercriminals have become increasingly skillful at destroying the organizational backup first, only then locking the data – leaving victims no choice but to pay the ransom. Given how long this trend has been around, and the devastating impact of a successful attack, one would expect organizations would get things under control by now. If anything, the situation is worsening.

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Continuity Joins Dell Technologies ETC Program to Help Protect Customers’ Storage and Data Protection Systems

The ETC Program underscores Dell’s commitment to offer customers flexibility and choice with complimentary solutions such as StorageGuard for protecting their critical systems from cyberattacks and insider threats.

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Best Practice Guide: Meeting Backup Requirements for Cyber Insurance Coverage

Cyber insurance provides a cushion to fall back on in a successful cyber-attack, providing coverage for damages caused by data loss.

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How To Demonstrate Backup Compliance. A Practical Guide

Compliance to industry standards and regulatory mandates can absorb a huge amount of time. Organizations need to verify they comply with the different requirements of security frameworks and regulations such as CIS, NIST, PCI DSS, ISO, and others.

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The CISOs Guide to Storage & Backup Cyber Resiliency

CISOs rely on information from across the organization about security, particularly from the various IT departments. Unfortunately, the information being fed to CISOs about the state of cybersecurity risk is incomplete. There is a blind spot present – a gaping hole.

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Top 4 Predictions for Storage and Backup Security in 2023

2022 clearly demonstrated that attacks on data represent the greatest cyber-threat organizations face. The attack pace not only continued, it accelerated.

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Gartner Promotes the Need for Heightened Storage & Backup Security to Combat Ransomware

Gartner recently emphasized the need for much stricter security in a recent report. Gartner analyst Julia Palmer focused on emerging innovative storage and data protection technologies.

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6 Steps to Ensure Compliance For Your Storage & Backup Systems

Here are just a few of the areas that must be considered to ensure thoroughness in verifying backup and storage compliance

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The Storage Manager’s Quick-Guide to Ransomware Resiliency (Part 2)

Why storage managers need to prepare for the ransomware scourge?

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The Storage Manager’s Quick-Guide to Ransomware Resiliency

Why storage managers need to prepare for the ransomware scourge?

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What’s Wrong with Storage and Backup Ransomware Protection Capabilities? (An Overview of Immutability, Snapshots, Air-Gap & Data Recovery)

Storage is becoming a prime target of cybercriminals as they attempt to infiltrate the enterprise. Faced with a wall of perimeter defenses, security safeguards, and well-patched

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Five Reasons Why Storage and Backup are Cybersecurity’s Weakest Links

A lot of money is being spent to proof up the enterprise against intrusion. Ransomware protection is currently in the spotlight – and with good reason.

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Top 8 Most Common Storage Misconfigurations And Vulnerabilities

Introduction We analyzed data from a large number of storage risk assessments, to provide a unique insight into the state of storage security. The analyzed data

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5 Takeaways From The New Gartner Hype Cycle For Storage & Data Protection 2022

Background to the Gartner Hype Cycle For Storage & Data Protection The latest 2022 Gartner Hype Cycle report for Storage and Data Protection has just been published and

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The Dummies Guide to Ransomware Resiliency for Enterprise Storage & Backup

It’s all about the data. One thing is clear. The “business value” of data continues to grow, making it an organization’s primary piece of intellectual property.

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Are Your Backups Safe From Ransomware? Your 8-Point Checklist for Backup Security & Data Protection

The average cost of recovery from a ransomware attack has more than doubled in a year, according to a Sophos survey. The global report also shows

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Analyzing The Security of Dell EMC Storage & Backup Systems – Four Highlights

In the first of its kind, Continuity published a new report that provides an analysis of the vulnerabilities and security misconfigurations of enterprise storage & backup

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When, Why and How To Create A Secure Backup Strategy 

Introduction  When data is compromised, the last line of defense is your backup.  In the past year, the tactics being used by cybercriminals have changed. And

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Don’t rely on your Storage & Backup Vendors for Security

I hear this a lot:  “Why do I need to scan my storage & backup systems for security risks? Don’t my storage vendors already do this

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New Data Protection Methods and the Impact on Securing Storage & Backup

Written by CISOs, for CISOs This article provides highlights from our ‘CISO Point of View: The ever-changing role of data, and the implications for data protection

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CISO Point of View: Discover how other CISOs deal with the complexity of data protection and storage security

Data plays an increasingly important role in the modern enterprise. With digitization, data comes much closer to the customer – with large amounts of data being

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4 Predictions for storage and backup security in 2022

Cyberstorage gained more attention in the media in 2021 with the rise in data storage hacks, ransomware attacks, and cases of immutable storage erased. As these

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The most critical – and overlooked – security issues facing financial services

A few words about the author: John Meakin is a seasoned and experienced CISO with more than 30 years of experience in various financial services companies,

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Gartner Shines a Light on Storage Security

In October 2021, Gartner published its “Innovation Insight for Cyberstorage Solutions to Protect Unstructured Data Against Ransomware.” We were thrilled to see the authors shine a light on the need to put active defenses around a company’s most valuable asset – the data it houses in storage and backup systems.

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Storage & backup security in the financial services and banking sector – Highlights from the 2021 survey report

The financial industry is rightfully alarmed by the increase in both the amount and sophistication of data-centered attacks – primarily ransomware.  We’ve all read the news.

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Storage security mythbusting: 4 myths CISOs still believe, and why they’re wrong

Experience is the mother of wisdom, or so the famous proverb goes. And there’s definitely something to that: the more of life we’ve experienced, the more

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The Status of Storage and Backup systems related to the Log4J vulnerabilities

A new critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) was identified in Apache Log4J – widely used by numerous applications, services and frameworks. This vulnerability received the highest CVSS severity score of 10.

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Five Backup Lessons Learned – From The UnitedHealth Ransomware Attack

UnitedHealth Congressional Testimony Reveals Failed Backup Strategy The ransomware attack on UnitedHealth earlier this year is quickly becoming the healthcare industry’s version of Colonial Pipeline, prompting congressional

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