A major U.S. gas pipeline operator gets shut down by ransomware. A
ransomware attack on a meat supplier forces the shutdown of meat plants.
Attacks force schools to close and even disrupt critical hea...
Although a cybersecurity or ransomware attack can be potentially
crippling, the very rational fear of such a threat will revolutionize
how we manage our most critical currency, information. The percei...
Every business leader hopes that neither a ransomware attack nor
accidental data loss through human error will happen to their
organisation. In reality, both present a significant threat to data
integ...
The Oxford Languages dictionary defines resilience as "the capacity to
recover quickly from difficulties; toughness." That definition aligns
well with how we at Veritas think about operational resilie...
Like virtually every technology developed, ransomware traces its roots
back to an origin that seems rudimentary by today’s standards. In 1989,
an AIDS researcher named Joseph Popp, Ph.D., circulated t...
Ransomware attacks are such an increasingly prevalent threat that it’s
imperative for enterprises to focus more on recovery while
simultaneously mitigating threats preemptively. In other words,
prepar...
Ransomware attacks are becoming significantly more complex and
sophisticated, as we’ve written. But like every other technology
challenge, mitigating ransomware threats can be boiled down to simpler
c...
Hardly a day passes without some major development with ransomware.
Hackers develop even more sophisticated approaches. A major automaker is
attacked and business is brought to a standstill. Bad actor...
In 2020, we have seen a huge increase in ransomware attacks – up 7x in
the first half of the year. What is driving this dramatic increase?
Well, it seems that COVID-19 is the root cause. As the pandem...
Today, most of our enterprise customers are facing an explosion of
complexity, from managing a highly disparate environment with services
and applications both on-premises and in multiple public cloud...