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Is there no end to the threat of ransomware?

By cfheoh | June 20, 2022 - 8:00 am |June 20, 2022 Appliance, Artificial Intelligence, Backup, Business Continuity, Cloud, Cohesity, Data, Data Archiving, Data Availability, Data Management, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Security, Digital Transformation, Disaster Recovery, Druva, Filesystems, HDS, Hitachi Vantara, ILM, iRODS, Racktop Systems, Reliability, Rubrik, SASE, Security, Sophos, Storage Field Day, Tech Field Day
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I find it blasphemous that with all the rhetoric of data protection and cybersecurity technologies and solutions in the market today, the ransomware threats and damages have grown proportionately larger each year. In a recent report by Kaspersky on Anti-Ransomware Day May 12th, 9 out of 10 of organizations previously attacked by ransomware are willing to pay again if attacked again. A day before my scheduled talk in Surabaya East Java 2 weeks’ back, the chatter through the grapevine was one bank in Indonesia was attacked by ransomware on that day. These news proved how virulent and dangerous the ransomware scourge is and has become.

And the question that everyone wants an answer to is … why are ransomware threats getting bigger and more harmful and there are no solutions to it? 

Digital transformation and its data are very attractive targets

Today, all we hear from the data protection and storage vendors are recovery, restore that data blah, blah, blah and more blah, blah, blahs. The end point EDR (endpoint detection and response) solutions say they can stop it; the cybersecurity experts preach depth in defense; and the network security guys say use perimeter fencing. And the anti-phishing chaps say more awareness and education required. One or all have not worked effectively these few years. Ransomware’s threats and damages are getting worse. Why?

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Tagged Acronis, arcserve, Asigra, Barracuda Networks, cybersecurity, data lifecycle, data protection, file security, Kaspersky, metadata, metadata injection, metadata tagging, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ransomware

Rethinking File Security Fundamentals

By cfheoh | May 24, 2021 - 9:00 am |May 24, 2021 Algorithm, Analytics, API, Artificial Intelligence, Business Continuity, Data Availability, Data Corruption, Data Management, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Security, Deep Learning, Digital Transformation, Disaster Recovery, eDiscovery, Filesystems, iRODS, Machine Learning, Object Storage, Snapshots, Virtualization
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I took a week off blogging last week but the lazy days were inundated by bad news. A few more devastating ransomware attacks. This time, Colonial Pipeline in the US was hacked and its networks were shutdown by ransomware. These ransomware threats are never ending, and they are getting more damaging than ever. It is like trying to plug a leaking boat with your hands, and more leaks appear as you plug them.

More ransomware news hitting healthcare around the world last week:

  • [ May 15, 2021 ] Ireland’s health service hit by ‘significant’ ransomware attack
  • [ May 20, 2021 ] Irish hospitals are latest to be hit by ransomware attacks
  • [ May 19, 2021 ] Ransomware attacks hit AXA’s Asia unit, New Zealand health provider
  • [ May 20, 2021 ] Ransomware attacks are spiking. Is your company prepared? 
  • [ May 20, 2021 ] RansomCloud: It’s new, it’s here now and it’s coming to a server near you

We are forever chasing for a solution, forever losing because almost all technology defenses to protect the data against ransomware are reactive. Why is ransomware still such a big threat then?  Time to rethink file security fundamentals.

Data everywhere

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