Cyber resilience

Object Lock governance vs. compliance mode for backups

Object Lock has two retention modes, and the choice between them is usually made in the ten seconds it takes to create a bucket, by whoever ...

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Cyber resilience

Backup isolation: What should stay off the domain?

Most backup estates are joined to Active Directory because that is the fastest way to get them working. The backup server, the hypervisor ...

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Cyber resilience

Backup admin accounts: Where to separate permissions

Separation of duties is written for organizations with enough people to separate. A team of four that owns servers, networking, ...

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Cyber resilience

Ransomware recovery: Can you trust your backup console?

After a ransomware event, the first screen most teams open is the backup console. It lists jobs, restore points, last successful runs and ...

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Cyber resilience

Immutable backups: What they protect and what they don't

Object Lock on a backup bucket produces a clean answer during an audit. The data cannot be changed or removed until the retention date ...

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Cyber resilience

What object lock actually guarantees (and what it does not)

Almost every backup storage proposal now carries the word immutable on the first page. Behind that word is usually a specific mechanism, S3 ...

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Cyber resilience

Recovery testing: How often, how much and what to measure

A backup console showing a long run of green checkmarks proves that data was written somewhere. It does not prove the data can be read ...

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Cyber resilience

Air gap vs. immutability: Do you need both?

Where an air gap protects you, where immutability does, where each falls short, and how mature designs combine them.

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Cyber resilience

Backup repository sizing: How much storage do you need?

Change rate, retention, immutability and growth shape the capacity you actually need.

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