With the heightened levels of ransomware and cyber attacks recently, the need to road-map and implement a cloud/hybrid strategy is imperative and urgent. To be clear, cloud storage is not fail-proof to preventing ransomware attacks, but the cloud can provide significantly more data protection to hugging your tangible on-prem server.    

As the ransomware attacks increase; disaster recovery, back-up, and cloud strategies should be at the forefront of technical 2022 business plans. Along with these, training and testing is essential. Phishing campaigns quickly bring a company down, so training employees and periodically testing to keep everyone on their toes should be an ongoing protocol added to IT’s business plan.

Cloud File Syncing Warning

It’s so nice to have last minutes backup readily available at your figure tips when your computer crashes, but it should come with a caution label. Instantaneous backups/file sharing can lead to hazardous ransomware strikes that can seep into your local files and encrypt them, syncing back to the cloud storage copy. It is important to make sure your backups are not deleting all precious copies. As in the scenario above; once the encryption makes it to the synced storage, if all other files are deleted, there is no easy way to pull the data back.    

As we head into a new world of increased cyber criminals; make sure your company is prepared and equipped to protect itself from these cyberattacks. Securely and routinely archive, backup, create a manage filing system in your could environments, review disaster recovery plans and make them as streamlined as possible, and reduce excess storage costs without leaving yourself open to data loss.

To streamline and protect your data storage process, contact our Pioneer Technology team today!