DECIDE WHICH DATA IS CRITICAL, AND PROTECT IT PROPERLY So here are our tips for home users and small businesses for World Backup Day:ġ. Losing your wedding photos or that video of your daughter’s first steps would be disappointing, but it wouldn’t stop you getting on with your digital life.īut losing data such as scans of your ID documents, which might be vital in getting back into compromised accounts, or taxation files that you’re obliged by law to keep for so many years, could land you in trouble. …you can still give yourself reasonable security against a total data disaster by identifying the most important files you have, and making a point of looking after them well. The good news is that useful backups don’t have to consume a lot of time and money.Įven if you don’t regularly backup every data file you’ve ever created… If even big companies with IT departments, sysadmins and security operations teams have trouble doing backups correctly, what hope do the rest of us have? So, what about home users, hobbyists and small businesses? It gives you nothing but a false sense of security. A backup that you can’t reliably restore on demand isn’t a backup.
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One-third of those in our survey who paid the ransom nevertheless ended up losing more than half their data, because even crooks who claim to “specialise” in ransomware and extortion don’t seem to know how to get the restoration part of the process right. The bad news about backups, however, is that we still had 32% of ransomware respondents who were stuck with paying the criminals instead, which not only increased the cost of getting their business on its feet again, but didn’t work reliably anyway. We’re saying that because, in our State of Ransomware 2021 Survey, 57% of companies who had the misfortune to get hit by ransomware (about one-third of those who responded) were able to recover their data and get their business running again via their backups. The good news about backups seems to be that more and more companies are taking the matter seriously, and not only making backups that remain intact after disaster strikes, but also recovering succesfully when needed. Try saying that out loud to yourself every time you find yourself thinking, “Should I make a copy of my (thesis, source code, tax documentation, visa application, mortgage files, insurance claim, job offer) now, or should I leave it until (tomorrow, the weekend, year-end, never)?” The only backup you will ever regret is the one you didn’t make. You’ll have heard it before if you listen to the Naked Security Podcast if so, here it is again, because it’s advice that never gets old: …which is a good time for us to remind you of a little saying that we like. Tomorrow is 31 March 2022, and the last day of March is World Backup Day…
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