US newspaper publisher uses linguistic gymnastics to avoid saying its outage was due to ransomware
US newspaper publisher uses linguistic gymnastics to avoid saying its outage was due to ransomware
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Tell me you don't have a viable backup strategy without saying you don't have a viable backup strategy.
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What does a viable backup strategy look like in the modern day? How difficult is it to build and maintain it?
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Depends on the needs of the business, of course, but --
There are lots of different ways to make data rollback robust, and as many methods as possible will offer different avenues to recovery. VM snapshots (with or without live mounting), shadow copies, incremental forever, cloud storage for backups, multiple appliances in different physical locations.
None of these are terribly "difficult." What tends to make these kinds of efforts less effective is a failure to regularly test them. Can I recover a VM snapshot? Can I live mount it somewhere? Sure, the product I'm using says I can, but have I proved it, and do I still remember how to do it quickly and correctly in the middle of a crisis?
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They don't exactly have a big budget or technical expertise
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Don't say the hard R
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I worked for Lee Enterprises pre bankruptcy and there was near zero viable anything then; can't imagine near twenty years later how bad it is now.
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What I'm more concerned about is who the people performing the attacks are, and why the press itself isn't attempting to expose them, and are instead sanitizing the attacks.
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They operate a lot of local news.
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