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Ransomware remediation: What steps should your business take for recovery?
Yahya Patel probably knows better than most just how much damage ransomware can cause. As Check Point Software’s lead security engineer, he’s witnessed ransomware grow from a “single group threat” holding decryption key as hostage, into a “triple extortion” catastrophe, where even customers of targeted companies are dragged into paying extortion for the stolen data. Add the rise of ransomware…
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Top 5 Disaster Recovery as a Service Providers for 2024
Disaster recovery as a service helps businesses restore their data and applications, providing business continuity after a natural or man-made disaster has interrupted or halted IT operations. When DR is offered as a service, organizations can use a cloud-based service provider to handle their disaster recovery planning. This article covers the best DRaaS providers to help you compare and choose…
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Security incident recovery times are over 7 months on average
Organizations are taking almost a month longer to recover from cybersecurity incidents than they did a year ago, and 25% longer than expected, a Fastly survey has found. This year, businesses report taking an average of 7.3 months to recover from cybersecurity breaches, substantially more than their anticipated timeline of 5.9 months. And recovery times were even worse for companies…
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New Windows 11 recovery tool to let admins remotely fix unbootable devices
Microsoft is working on a new Windows “Quick Machine Recovery” feature that will allow IT administrators to use Windows Update “targeted fixes” to remotely fix systems rendered unbootable. This new feature is part of a new Windows Resiliency Initiative launched in response to a widespread July 2024 outage caused by a buggy CrowdStrike Falcon update that rendered hundreds of thousands…
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Cyber insurance claims are declining as firms take ransomware recovery into their own hands
While more organizations than ever have cyber insurance, the number of claims is falling as companies refuse to make ransom payments and tackle recovery themselves. According to Databarracks’ Data Health Check – an annual survey of 500 UK IT decision makers – two-thirds report having insurance specifically for cybersecurity in 2024, a figure that’s surged from 51% over the past…
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