Ransomware Attacks on the Enterprise

Despite numerous cyber security incidents making international news on a regular basis over the last few years, the new outbreak of attacks already experienced in 2020 have brought renewed and urgent focus on what organizations need to do to protect their businesses and services from ransomware. These attacks seriously impact thousands of organizations worldwide, and have already hit well over 150 countries and over 200,000 computer networks.

The frequency of ransomware attacks is set to increase further, and with increasing sophistication. For example, some malware already exist that are more sophisticated than WannaCry which actually looks for weak backup systems and encrypts the backups.

For an enterprise to become sufficiently protected, advance preparation and thought is required. Data protection technology, backup best practices and staff training are critical for mitigating the business-threatening disruption that ransomware attacks can inflict on organizations.

The best protection against them is to have a correctly architectured backup solution with best-practice backup strategies, and to ensure any cloud backups are adequately protected and available. That means having up-to-date copies of that data available elsewhere. Bacula Enterprise provides industry-unique architectures and specific tools to implement these requirements and as such, is used by some of the world’s largest security organizations as their primary backup solution. For the enterprise, having an enterprise-grade backup solution such as Bacula is essential, because correct data backup, storage and compliance practice can be the main difference between a company’s survival and failure.