by Jesper Kråkhede, Sweden
Posted in Security Architecture on Jan 31st, 2020
A slightly different post this time. For a few weeks I have followed the news about the new coronavirus from Wuhan in China. At first it sounded far away. Now the city is closed down, the virus has turned up in several other countries and yesterday WHO declared it a public health emergency of international […]
Posted in Business, Security Architecture on Jan 19th, 2020
Just before New Year a large currency exchange company was hit by ransomware and is still struggling to get its services back. When I read about cases like that my first question is always the same: Could they restore? For management, backup has been an IT topic for decades. Something that costs money and that […]
Posted in Security Architecture, Technology on Jan 5th, 2020
Every time I help a customer recover from ransomware I ask myself what actually made the difference. After a few years the answer is surprisingly short. Three things: immutable backups, a bad network and a bad memory. Immutable backups first. A backup the attacker can reach is not a backup, it is just another target. […]