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Have The Last Word Against Ransomware With Immutable Backup

Cyber Defense Magazine, Saturday, April 19th, 2025

With incidences of ransomware on the rise, nobody should even be thinking that an attack is something that couldn't happen to them, let alone speak those words into existence.

And for organizations that believe a breach couldn't happen to them because they store their data in the cloud are burying their heads in the sand.

All companies are vulnerable to ransomware. According to analyst estimates, cybercriminals were able to extort more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency payments from victims in 2023. What may have been a simple operational interruption 5 years ago has ballooned into millions of dollars per incident, loss of business reputation and a mystery as to how long it will take to return to viability.

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