In an era of escalating ransomware attacks, good backup policies and procedures have become essential. In 2022 alone, 236.1 million ransomware attacks were detected globally. Cyber criminals are using malware, cryptography and network infiltration to lock firms out of their data by attacking storage, encrypting data, and disabling backups. The prevalence of ransomware attacks, where businesses are forced into financial ultimatums by holding their systems and backups hostage, makes it imperative for businesses to improve their security and consequently their data backup protocols.
With proper backups and disaster recovery procedures, systems infected with ransomware can be restored fairly quickly, thus thwarting the attackers. However, hackers have learned to delete or destroy backups at the same time they are encrypting and locking production files. If their targets can restore their systems from backups, then obviously they won’t need to pay the ransom.
