Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups
by paxys on Monday July 19, 2021 @08:53PM
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Every business in the world hires accountants to balance their books, lawyers when they need to file paperwork or respond to a problem, mechanics, electricians, plumbers and other professionals to fix physical stuff. Yet when it comes to software the most they will consider is an online monthly fee for something cheap and out of the box, and when things get complicated or go wrong "this is out of our area of expertise" is always the excuse. It's really time to treat software professionals, especially when related to security, as a core requirement for EVERY organization, starting from a 2 person mom-and-pop shop.
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Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups
by 908B64B197 on Monday July 19, 2021 @11:14PM
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> It's really time to treat software professionals, especially when related to security, as a core requirement for EVERY organization
Some organizations do, some don't. Long time valuation seems to agree with the former, short term the latter!
Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups
by htrp on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @02:43PM
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Those other groups have professional organizations with licensing. Plumbers will almost always refuse to do maintenance work on any work done by an unlicensed person.
.... software/IT just hasn't had people willing to do that.