{"id":4210,"date":"2014-10-16T14:15:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T14:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2019-11-07T07:19:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T07:19:18","slug":"use-server-backups-bring-down-organized-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/use-server-backups-bring-down-organized-crime","title":{"rendered":"Use server backups to bring down organized crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Server backups<\/a> are important. You know it. We know it. But when considering why your business needs to make frequent, effective backups the thought of organized crime usually doesn\u2019t enter the equation.<\/p>\n

No, we\u2019re not talking Sopranos bust-your-kneecaps style organized crime. Your server backups aren\u2019t going to stop horse heads turning up between the sheets or a hitman waiting for you outside an Italian restaurant.<\/p>\n

What a good server backup will do is save your business from the digital protection racket that funds criminal entities globally. Today, we\u2019re talking ransomware<\/a>.
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What is ransomware?<\/h2>\n

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Ransonware is a form of malicious software (malware) designed to infect your system and prevent you from accessing anything until you pay the piper (piper in this instance being a sleazy criminal).<\/p>\n

Most commonly, this is done using encryption \u2013 the ransomware will simply encrypt all of your files, folders and applications so that you can\u2019t open anything without entering an encryption key.   Cryptolocker is perhaps the most notorious encryption-based ransomware floating around the seedy underside of the internet in recent years.<\/p>\n

Other forms of ransomware have been known to simply block access to important data by popping up pornographic images or fake windows error messages in front of everything until the ransom is paid.<\/p>\n

Regardless of what form of ransomware your company is hit with you have two choices:<\/p>\n

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  1. Pay the criminals and fund further criminal operations, hoping that they\u2019ll be honest enough to unlock your systems once you do, or;<\/li>\n
  2. Nuke the entire system and recover from server backups to a point before the ransomware infected the system.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you don\u2019t have decent server backups, you\u2019re down to one option.<\/p>\n

    But how could ransomware hit MY <\/em>company?<\/h2>\n

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    Every company thinks they\u2019re immune. You\u2019re too small to be targeted by crime gangs, right? Or you\u2019re too large and your security systems are too advanced, correct?  Wrong in both cases.  Companies of all shapes and sizes have been hit with ransomware.<\/p>\n

    There are plenty of heartbreaking testimonials<\/a> around that will attest to this. In fact, a major news outlet in Australia was hit by ransomware<\/a> just last week.<\/p>\n

    The most common form of infection is due to a combination of good ol\u2019 fashioned email phishing and employees who aren\u2019t sufficiently tech-savvy. The criminal organizations will simply send out a legitimate looking email with a malicious attachment (your company account is overdue, please find latest invoice attached, for example).<\/p>\n

    Poor old Terry, the new intern in accounting, doesn\u2019t want to get in trouble for forgetting to pay something important. He also doesn\u2019t know the difference between a .pdf and a .exe file, so he hurriedly opens the file to see what\u2019s owed.<\/p>\n

    And now you have Cryptolocker in your system. Server backups, anyone?<\/p>\n

    How can I use server backups to beat the bad guys?<\/h2>\n

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    As mentioned above, essentially the only way to overcome most ransomware is to recover your entire system from a backup.  But unfortunately, not just any old backup will do.  That\u2019s why it\u2019s crucial your business accounts for the possibility of ransomware into your server backup strategy.<\/p>\n

    If your backup strategy involves simply replicating your systems and data offsite, then your backup software will happily replicate the ransomware along with the files.  There\u2019s no worse feeling than going to restore a backup and finding that\u2019s encrypted too.<\/p>\n

     Instead, what you need to be doing is using software like BackupAssist to back up your data and create recovery media<\/a> for those backups.<\/p>\n

    Creating ransomware-proof server backups is not only a responsibility to your effective business continuity, it\u2019s an obligation you owe to the rest of global society.  When your business pays off a ransomware demand, you\u2019re directly funding criminal organizations.<\/p>\n

    The efficacy of your server backups, could quite literally help to take down global organized crime syndicates.  Or at least limit their revenue streams.  Food for thought.<\/p>\n

    Have you used server backups to overcome ransomware?
    \n<\/em>We’d really love to hear your story!
    \n<\/em>Leave a comment, tweet us     @BackupAssist<\/a> or post it to Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Share this article and help defeat the digital mobsters.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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