Is Your Use of Windows Backup Opening the Door to Hackers?

Editor's Notes

• #2: Thanks I appreciate you joining today Hope not to take too much of your time And if we’re lucky, I’ll have helped you learned some interesting things for organization’s backup and continuity needs
• #3: Ransomware is here to stay: $1B Government: 4000 attacks released daily Expected to continue and evolve We even have RaaS Talk about board level conversation and how it is causing CIOs and CSOs to think a lot more about backup Plug the eBook
• #4: They don’t just ask for tiny amounts of money; it can be impactful
• #5: Key messages:
• #6: It would seem like it should be easy to prevent, but it’s clearly not 4000 attacks per day Stealth services springing up everywhere
• #7: Not all doom and gloom Backup solutions can play a bigger part in your anti-ransomware strategy than you might have thought We’ll cover these in detail later
• #8: The key question for this webinar topic – how does your choice of backup solution affect your ransomware situation
• #9: Yes, your choice has an impact It’s time to start considering ransomware as part of the evaluation criteria
• #10: From what we’ve seen in OUR time spent with customers… This is what they’ve reported when they failed to be able to recover from a ransomware attack You can see public information on some of these incidents Don’t like to pick, but this was just admitted by one of our competitors, Veeam, in a public forum post Windows is a stronger market so it’s highly targeted Some new variants like LataRebo Locker specifically exploit Windows registry to show the ransom note and disable task manager so you can’t kill their process
• #11: Ransomware targets Windows predominantly Many folks that were hit by ransomware had their backups impacted as well This is because many incumbent backup solutions are also Windows based The new approach is a hardened, locked down, purpose-built backup appliance (often one that is a hybrid cloud appliance)
• #12: From what we’ve seen in OUR time spent with customers… This is what they’ve reported when they failed to be able to recover from a ransomware attack You can see public information on some of these incidents Don’t like to pick, but this was just admitted by one of our competitors, Veeam, in a public forum post
• #14: Tell stories here about people in support Don’t talk in detail about testing yet
• #15: Obviously, testing helps But it’s painful and arduous Automation around this is becoming more prevalent There are some nuances to it
• #18: Don’t like picking on GitLab because they did awesome in how they handled the situation But they definitely put themselves in a situation where IT resilience was not implemented THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RANSOMWARE It’s about risk of your backups being bad
• #19: And this one is a peeve of mine, having been in the backup space for so long I love great virtualization features But they can hurt us sometimes That said, they are ways to mitigate the impact
• #22: Using functionality from Unitrends to display some of this
• #26: Not all doom and gloom Backup solutions can play a bigger part in your anti-ransomware strategy than you might have thought We’ll cover these in detail later
• #27: Unitrends can identify abnormal behavior – on a system level – and warn when malicious attacks may have occurred or are under way
• #29: Key messages:
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