Cyber Attack At My Local CC

[mednat]

With the current software available on the market, automatic backup checking should be in the minimum feature set when selecting backup. A long duration persistent infection is a possible attack, however it's unlikely to be effective with crypto varieties, because the goal is not to stay hidden but to be seen. It is pretty typical to keep months worth of backups with the current technology of incremental forward backups, and the cheap cost of disk. At a minimum, even since the 1990's I've kept 7 years of month end backups, for non-transaction data which seems to be what all auditors have asked m. Transaction data I typically keep incremental changes by capturing database log files before purging.

I would guess this is a case of a school who hired too few staff, or hired staff who did not have enough experience in this area -- or even worse they outsourced it to a provider who told them they had it under control. Backup is one of the items any IT professional learns early on is their first line of defense against the unemployment line -- operations professionals don't skimp on it.