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Tested, offsite, cold backups

Fully-automated deployment

Never pay

... ransomware becomes moot



But you will have paid twice as much in heavy infrastructure and staff.

For small companies, what we really need is built in ways of doing daily versioning in the popular NAS solution they use.


If you're a small business just put your data in the cloud dude. For example if you use online email services then a robot will put your data on a tape cassette and a guy will load it on a truck and drive it to a mountain made of iron for free. Ryuk can't ransom that.


Ransomers also threaten to post the unencrypted data on the internet.


Yeah, because fuck your employees and customers. Right?

Backups do nothing against contemporary ransomware attacks where the MO is to publish stolen information if the company doesn’t pay up.

If you’re a hospital or say a school district “never pay” is simply an unconscionable attitude.




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