The prevalence of cyber threats and ransomware is create a lot of fear, uncertainty, doubt and lies. Possibly the biggest area of misunderstanding is how ransomware interacts with systems and infrastructure. Read more

Modern data protection challenges demand an assessment of recovery strategies and the maintenance of compliance with those strategies. This could be for regulatory reasons or simply to offer assurance that the business can bounce back quickly in the event of an outage.  If we want to meet recovery objectives in the face of modern challenges such as ransomware, then recovery at scale and in parallel becomes a critical component. Recovering individual VM’s, files or application items is all well and good for ‘everyday’ disasters (like recovering that critical email) but when infrastructure becomes unavailable the impact can be felt broadly.    Read more

Veeam is proud to release the findings of yet another research project, the 2023 Data Protection Trends Report, which is the industry’s largest independent research on backup and data protection. This research is fully independent, representing the whole market, and not only from Veeam customers, and was conducted by a third-party research organization, with no one knowing that Veeam was involved. Read more

Ransomware attacks are an unfortunate reality faced by companies of all shapes and sizes. When the Kodiak Island Borough had its data threatened by a ransomware attack, we used Veeam to help us recover our data. Read more

At VNOG, we provide essential fire-fighting services and assistance in the event of accidents, disasters and crises to the 870,000 citizens of North and East Gelderland in the Netherlands. In this blog post, I’ll tell the story of my most memorable day as VNOG’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Read more

Business continuity, simply put, is enabling your business to continue operating at an acceptable level in the event of an incident - large or small. Continuity for your business means being proactive, ready for inevitable disruption and able to react to resume critical services.   Read more

Remember the days when your data protection strategy was designed around system failures or loss of a data center due to a catastrophe, whether manmade or natural? While preparing for these types of disasters is still very much a priority, in the past decade a new menace has surfaced, demanding the attention of organizations everywhere. Read more

Enterprises routinely face challenges when it comes to protecting their critical workloads. Meeting demanding Service Level Agreements (SLAs), unsought multi-team workflows, and convoluted or sprawling toolsets are just a few of the common constraints that organizations routinely face. When these challenges start to compound, you quickly wind up in situations where simple tasks can grind your applications to a halt.  Read more

Ransomware attacks need to be viewed under the same category as power outages and natural disasters. The requirement to recover quickly is a necessity. Recently, I'm seeing many vendors in the data protection industry advertise immutability and ransomware detection features. Both of which should absolutely be part of a company's ransomware strategy, but an immutable copy coming from spinning disk or tape can result in too much downtime for the business. It's an easy decision for a CEO or CFO if an attacker's ransom is $100,000 and the cost of downtime for a day is $500,000. The only question at that point becomes how do we make a Coinbase account to transfer Bitcoin? Read more

Protect, Detect and Recover! The three key pillars a backup vendor is expected to offer when it comes to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. The top priority on that list is protecting your data. A secure backup both on premises and in a private or public cloud offers immense protection. This can protect data from both a hacker accessing the backup server as well as the backup repository. Secondly, the ability to recovery quickly is crucial. Read more