AssureStor will be attending the NHF Housing Finance Conference on 22nd and 23rd March 2017, at the ACC Liverpool Conference Centre. The National Housing Federation (NHF) is an organisation that exists to support and promote the work of housing associations. On Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd March 2017, the NHF Housing Finance Conference will take place at the ACC Liverpool …
Ransomware Basics: Are You Infected?
Have you become infected with ransomware? And if so, what steps are you taking to contain the infection? Be aware, be prepared, and minimise damage to your organisation. At AssureStor we have seen first-hand the damage that ransomware attacks can cause. Supporting organisations through the restoration process has given us a unique view of the entire ransomware attack story, from …
Ransomware Basics: Know Your Enemy
Understanding ransomware basics will help you to stay safe from attack. There are many varieties of ransomware, and they can infect your business in a number of ways. It may be a new year, but ransomware attacks aren’t going away any time soon. In a previous blog post, we showed you how to calculate the cost of downtime resulting from …
Ransomware Attacks: Calculating the Cost of Downtime
Ransomware attacks put businesses at operational, financial, and reputational risk. But what about the recovery window? All businesses need to calculate the cost of downtime. Ransomware attacks are one of the main cyber-threats facing businesses in 2016. They are utilised more than ever before by cybercriminals looking to extort money from affected organisations, whose operations suffer when key data becomes …
Simple, Unified Disaster Recovery for Physical and Virtual Servers
If you run an entirely physical estate, or you have legacy physical servers remaining within your environment, unified disaster recovery ensures that your entire environment is protected. We all know by now the benefits that virtualisation brings. Virtualisation platforms offer excellent resource utilisation, ease of management, faster provisioning, and of course rapid disaster recovery. In fact, for many the ability …
Cloud Disaster Recovery Delivers Benefits and Economies
When it comes to protecting your business-critical systems, cloud disaster recovery delivers the best combination of functionality, flexibility, and cost. How do you define a disaster? A decade ago, when we talked about a disaster we were often referencing floods, earthquakes, and terrorist attacks. All legitimate concerns, but frankly pretty remote for most businesses. Disaster recovery, through its inherent costs …
Recover Encrypted Files through Effective Backups
If you’re unlucky enough to be infected by a ransomware attack, you can recover encrypted files by implementing an effective backup strategy. The threat of a ransomware attack is an unfortunate reality for organisations in 2016. The number of attacks has increased five-fold in the past year, and this trend is set to continue. Even with security measures and employee …
Hypervisor Replication Delivers Superior Disaster Recovery
In a disaster, hypervisor replication reduces data loss and resource utilisation when compared to snapshot technology. You hope that it will never happen, but the chances are that it will. If you ever need to invoke your disaster recovery provisions, it will probably be at the worst possible time. Whether that’s over a weekend, before a complex infrastructure upgrade, or …
Data Backup Security: How to Secure Your Backup Data
All organisations should consider their data backup security, although many don’t. In fact, your toner cartridges may be more secure than your backup data. It is critical that your organisation protects its data, both in flight and at rest. You have probably implemented data protection measures – such as firewalls and antivirus – to protect your live system data. But what …
SaaS Data Protection Safeguards Hosted Applications
If your organisation is using Software as a Service (SaaS) based applications, you should implement SaaS data protection to safeguard your hosted data. When you utilise SaaS-based applications, your data no longer resides within your organisation’s boundaries or within the control of your IT staff. So how do you handle situations where you need to restore a deleted, corrupted, or …