IT Manager

strivoli

Principal Software Engineer

Dr. Klahn

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Thank you to the Experts that provided opinions and suggestions. I will not consider encryption. I believe the Backup Process is reasonably good (if I could have unlimited financiary resources, could be better - never happened in the past and will never happen in the future). That said, I've planned a Full Restore on a separate Environment using the Full Backup located in a set of Encrypted Tapes in order to make sure the DR (Disaster Recovery) runs fine as it should.
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Since you are backing up to tapes, you are in my point of view in a better position than many others. Tapes have the advantage of not being accessible directly, you need the backup software to get access to them. You also can't easily edit data that is already on tape. So ransomware can't easily also compromise the tapes. Besides that tapes that aren't in the tape drive are inaccessible to people who aren't onsite.<br>But many people today backup to disk-drives or to online sites, &amp; and these can be manipulated by ransomware...
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Hi rindi, thanks for your thoughts. I Backup also to Tape. In order to follow the 3-2-1 Rule, I Backup to Disk, partially to Cloud (because of limited bandwidth) and to Tape. I'm an "old school" IT Manager and I still believe on the usefulness of the Tape. Besides what you wrote, I can move the Tapes easily and keep copies of them offsite.
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Having in mind what's happening to Kaseya, I was wondering if VM Encryption (vCenter 6.7) would help or not protecting the VM from Ransomware. What do you think about it?
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Having in mind what's happening to Kaseya, I was wondering if VM Encryption (vCenter 6.7) would help or not protecting the VM from Ransomware. What do you think about it?

Encrypt VM. Worth it against Ransomware?

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Ransomware is malicious software, designed to block data access in order to extort money. As a form of malware, ransomware is most often used to infiltrate devices through infected emails or links that, in turn, recognize and take advantage of vulnerabilities in the operating system and installed third-party software.

Ransomware

vCenter Appliance

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Security is the protection of information systems from theft or damage to the hardware, the software, and the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide. The main goal of security is protecting assets, and an asset is anything of value and worthy of protection.  Information Security is a discipline of protecting information assets from threats through safeguards to achieve the objectives of confidentiality, integrity, and availability or CIA for short. On the other hand, disclosure, alteration, and disruption (DAD) compromise the security objectives.