Comment by nickpsecurity
10 years ago
If your a security service, definitely pay no ransom money. Also, tell your clients to back their stuff up with their own methods, too, just in case you come under heavy attack.
10 years ago
If your a security service, definitely pay no ransom money. Also, tell your clients to back their stuff up with their own methods, too, just in case you come under heavy attack.
> Also, tell your clients to back their stuff up with their own methods, too, just in case you come under heavy attack.
This goes for any 'in the cloud' data that you might have. In the end it's your data and your company that is at stake. Not all data wipe-outs are malicious, sometimes accidents do happen.
Banks are tripping over themselves to get out of the datacenter business and put all their files on Azure/Rackspace/AWS/what have you. It's embarrassing.
It really is. I'm hoping they're just offloading less consequential crap instead of core apps. Those are on mainframes in most banks I know. Maybe legacy lock-in will save customers' data and money from cost-cutting managers. Ya think? Would be ironic as hell haha.
Except that it seems when it comes to Azure everyone feels safe then also backing up to Azure (specifically talking about SQL database here). Sigh...
Every time I hear stuff like that I point people to this link:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/18/code_spaces_destroye...
2 replies →
> Also, tell your clients to back their stuff up with their own methods, too, just in case you come under heavy attack
you would be shocked at the number of people who get upset when you advise them to make their own backups, and interpret this as an indictment of the reliability of your own backup procedures.
e.g. "isn't that what we pay you for???"
nevertheless, do it anyway and let them fume. there are no prerequisites for running a business and you'll find that many absolute morons are at the helm of some nominally successful businesses.
Agreed. Whenever I hear a self important IT person saying "this place WILL go under without me" I know I'm dealing with someone delusional or inexperienced.
A company of any size can continue on even if severely crippled with nobody left who understands how anything works. I've seen it time and again - also even where I've felt I was important.
Minimal viable product and vendor lock ins are powerful real world things.