Many Irish businesses and organisations that have adopted a cloud-first policy do not understand the fundamental problems with placing all your data in the one cloud basket, some have been extremely badly advised and sold on a quick supposed fix-all data backup and storage solution, in many cases by someone that did not truly understand the technology they were selling or care about the potential consequences it could have post-sale.
These organisations in many instances are under the false impression that anything stored in the cloud is automatically safe and all cloud backup services do the same thing…. Right? They safely store your organisations data beyond the reach of the cybercriminals…. Wrong!
Cybercriminals have lots of time on their hands they frequently monitor a business’s operations for over 7 months before striking at the opportune moment which can be at night or at the weekend or even in the middle of the day, they will simultaneously monitor multiple potential victims, whose IT Security has been compromised and fully breached for extended periods of time, they wait until they have all the required login credentials and move laterally across the network from one PC to the next until they have a full intimate and detailed understanding of the layout of the IT systems, data storage, and backup procedures in place.
They will know how, when, which services and methods the organisation use to safeguard their own and client information stored both locally and in the cloud. Cybercriminals are aware of the threat backups pose to them and reduce the likelihood of any eventual ransomware payment they can easily disable backup systems including to the cloud and delete all older backups in the cloud and onsite without the victim realising. They will finally run an encryption ransomware virus when they know for sure the victim has no possible means of recovering data to ensure the maximum possibility of six-figure payment.
We offer our clients much safer more secure data protection solutions with superior protection methods that reduce the risk as far as humanly and technologically feasible, to ensure full operational resilience to truly secure data in the cloud and help you avoid some of the most common cybersecurity mistakes which could have a devastating and long-lasting impact.
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