Strategies for Handling a REvil Ransomware Attack

Understanding the Threat of REvil Ransomware With the advent of cybercriminal organizations leveraging ransomware as a service, companies like ours must remain vigilant. REvil ransomware has emerged as one of the most formidable threats, capable of crippling day-to-day operations and [...]

Strategies for Handling a REvil Ransomware Attack2024-12-11T21:47:46-08:00

How to Choose the Right Ransomware Recovery Service for Your Business

Understanding the Threat of Ransomware Choosing a ransomware recovery service has become a critical decision for businesses, as the current landscape of cyber threats continues to evolve and expand. The impact of ransomware on companies of all sizes has driven [...]

How to Choose the Right Ransomware Recovery Service for Your Business2024-11-08T12:43:22-08:00

You’re the Non-technical Boss with Responsibility for the Network…

How do you know your most important functions of your network are working?  How do you manage technical people whose work you don’t fully understand?  This week I have seven simple questions to ask and I provide you some tips on what answers you should expect.

Backup and Disaster Recovery is one of the most important functions in Information Technology management to assure the future viability of your firm.  But backup and DR is a function you don’t really know is working until you really need it and that is not the time to find out it is not working as planned.  My recommendation is that you bring this topic up in your next meeting with your IT team.  Here are the questions I suggest you ask:

1.       How is our backup system running?  (Let your IT person talk.  Be patient and don’t interrupt.  Let them tell you all they can.)

2.       Are we getting any error messages from the backups? (Error messages are not....

You’re the Non-technical Boss with Responsibility for the Network…2015-10-07T22:13:17-07:00

What is Recovery Time Objective?

If your system breaks, how long do you want to be down?  How soon do you need your system back up and running?  Whether it is a week, a day, an hour or one minute, whatever time you establish, that is your RTO or Recovery Time Objective.  Think about what your business needs and you can come up with one component of disaster recovery/business continuity planning, your RTO.  Next up, you need to start thinking about your Recovery Point Objective.

What is Recovery Time Objective?2024-04-21T19:44:54-07:00

Symantec Pulls the Plug on Their Cloud Backup Offering

The shutdown of cloud backup provider Nirvanix does not surprise me as it appeared to me to be somewhat ill conceived.  While Backup Exec is good for conventional backup to tape and other media, is not so well suited for [...]

Symantec Pulls the Plug on Their Cloud Backup Offering2023-08-10T23:29:21-07:00