There are many instances in the news over the last few years of companies’ getting targeted and hit with ransomware​. Ransomware is a type of malicious activity that will lock data until a sum is paid, essentially holding your data hostage. This can be detrimental to a company and could cause huge financial loss. In most cases as well, paying the sum to the attacker will only cause them to continue attacking other companies and does not guarantee you will receive all your data back before it is exposed on the internet. The solution, using an enterprise backup solution that offers immutability to prevent data loss.

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Many of our clients have a fully cloud based setup, while others use a combination of cloud and on prem server systems.  In most cases, we recommend a local backup be captured and maintained to your office, and that backup data also be replicated to cloud based storage such as AWS. We take care to enable features such as immutability in client AWS data backup configurations to provide additional resistance to threats such as Ransomware.