Tag: Backup
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A Weekend Migration: Replacing One Cloud Service With a Self Hosted Alternative
We migrated a paid analytics service to a self hosted alternative and wrote down the actual time it took, the actual failures, and the actual cost. The Saturday afternoon is real. The Tuesday evening for DNS cutover is also real.
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The 3 2 1 1 0 Backup Strategy Explained
The 3-2-1 backup strategy has been the industry standard for so long that the new variant (the 3-2-1-1-0) sounds like a typo. It is not. The extra numbers serve as the answer to the ransomware variant that the 3-2-1 was not designed to handle.
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Wipers, Not Ransomware, Are the New Normal
Picture the standard ransomware playbook. Attacker breaches the network, encrypts the data, posts the ransom note. Victim pays, gets the decryption key, restores, files the insurance claim, moves on. That last part is the part that is breaking. A growing share of attackers are taking the ransom and refusing to hand over the key. The…
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Backups: The One Thing That Will Save You, and Why Most People Set Them Up Wrong
We have backups is often the last reassuring sentence spoken before an organization discovers the backups were incomplete, online, encrypted with everything else, or impossible to restore in time.
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Ransomware Double Extortion Has Stopped Working
Double extortion ransomware was the dominant pattern from 2020 to 2024. The attacker encrypted the data and exfiltrated a copy, the victim paid the ransom to get both the decryption key and the non disclosure. By 2026 the pattern has stopped working, for three reasons that have less to do with the attacker and more…