Security

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It's a well-known tactic. Cybercriminals will first access a system, and then quietly begin to corrupt the backups. It's an approach that will bear fruit because a company will be more likely to pay the ransom if they can't restore their data cleanly.

Brainstorm: One a scale of one to 10, how confident are you that you can recover your critical systems, cleanly, within 24 hours of a ransomware attack?