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Paying hundreds of thousands to restore 158 backed up machines would be absurd. Surely a week of work for those 158 employees isn't worth that. They've gotta pu
by ashelmire 7y ago
Paying hundreds of thousands to restore 158 backed up machines would be absurd. Surely a week of work for those 158 employees isn't worth that. They've gotta put a financial analyst on these issues, and not leave it up to panicking executives.
And look at how greedy the attacker was. Missed out on a 400k payday.
- raxxorrax 7y agoI would like to see your calculation for that. My current company is much smaller in size and had 2 ransom attacks that I saw happening (in ~2 years). We use nimble as a backup and it is quite expensive (hundreds of thousands actually, depending on infrastructure) but worked flawlessly to restore all our systems in a short time. You will loose a few hours of work though. Attack vectors are the usual: mail with infected attachment and users with too many rights on documents. The attackers even know names of people working at the company and use correct mail signatures (not actual mail signatures, just the colorful stuff you put at the end of every business mail). If production stopped for a week, the contractual penalties alone would probably eat up sums like that.