The fundamental need to protect, recover, and archive data has not changed. But can the same be said about the character of those needs? Downtime today means much more than it did in the past, affecting not only business processes but customer satisfaction and business reputation. At the same time, there is more data than …
Coveware published their Quarterly Ransomware Report on July 23, 2021. Most notable: The average ransom payment declined to $136,576 while the median fell to $47,008, levels not seen since the beginning of 2021. The decrease was primarily driven by a growing number of disparate Ransomware-as-a-Service brands that have proliferated recently, and which have diluted the …
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Changing backup vendors always requires some level of technical or organizational effort. So, if you’re considering a change, here are some questions to ask: Is the backup solution something that has been around for years with little change? Is it something created from multiple company acquisitions that have been cobbled together? Does it require multiple …
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Coveware published their Quarterly Ransomware Report on April 26, 2021. Most notable: Q1 saw a reversal of average and median ransom amounts. The averages in Q1 were pulled up by a raft of data exfiltration attacks by one specific threat actor group that opportunistically leveraged a unique vulnerability. Here are some quick ransomware payment statistics …
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Coveware published their Quarterly Ransomware Report on February 1, 2021. Most notable: Fewer companies are giving in to cyber extortion when they are able to recover from back ups which has resulted in a large decline in average ransom amounts paid in Q4 2020. Here are some quick ransomware payment statistics from Coveware’s Q4 2020 …
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By Bryan Macario, Network Security Engineer at Tec-Refresh, Inc. In today’s article, I will discuss an open-source tool that complements Windows Event Logs, called Sysmon. This tool is part of the Windows Sysinternals Suite and was developed by Mark Russinovich. The whole idea of Sysmon Is that it further increases the logging capabilities that Windows …
