{"id":98338,"date":"2025-02-20T00:25:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T00:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/internet-business\/using-live-backups-heres-why-that-might-be-a-bad-thing\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T00:25:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T00:25:59","slug":"using-live-backups-heres-why-that-might-be-a-bad-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=98338","title":{"rendered":"Using Live Backups? Here’s Why That Might Be A Bad Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\"\"The range of threats facing modern businesses grows ever larger. And as the entire corporate world moves down the path towards digital transformation, the profitability of cybercrime grows exponentially. One of the largest areas of growth, unsurprisingly, is ransomware.

Why go to the trouble of exfiltrating data when you can simply hold it for ransom? Why spend hours cracking a server\u2019s security when you can simply infest it with a worm via a phishing email? The answer should be clear.<\/p>\n

Backups remain the best defense against ransomware. Air-gapping a system and wiping it before it can infect others allows data to be restored through a backup server. This will not change.<\/p>\n

But criminals are smart. They know that backups are their achilles heel. And they have started targeting them.<\/p>\n

New ransomware may infect backups without the host organization knowing, or a hacker might directly attack a backup server in an attempt to cripple it. Live backups represent a unique risk in this regard. Because they are direct copies of a live server, they can be frightfully easy to infect.<\/p>\n

There are several steps you must take to prevent that from happening<\/a>:<\/p>\n