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5 Ways Ransomware Renders Backup Useless

Tip Sheet

Published January 2023
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Your backup and recovery solution should protect your organization, but sophisticated malware like Locky and Crypto, now target backup data. Today’s more frequent and widespread ransomware attacks are more precise, going beyond locking up your data and holding it until you pay ransom to compromising the very system designed to safeguard your data. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, ransomware was on pace to attack a business every 11 seconds by the end of 2021.

That’s why it’s important to keep these five considerations in mind when you’re strategizing about how best to protect your backup data so that if the worst were to happen, you could rapidly respond to a ransomware attack.