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Quick Case Study: Security Assessment

Mid-sized manufacturing business, under $50 million

Issue: Suffered a recent ransomware attack. Rather than pay the ransom, they shut down their operations for a week to remediate the problem. They called us after the remediation.

Assessment results:

• Backups on main server had been failing every day for a week.
• Excessive missing security patches
• Low disk space
• Servers in extended support
• No discernible business continuity planning, e.g., they were using tape backup’s and therefor were unable to restore the entire business quickly, including data and applications.
• Onsite visit found that they were storing their tapes outside of the server room.

Recommendations:

• Their servers were less than 36 months old, so we didn’t recommend replacing them, but they did have a space issue.
• Eliminate tape backup
• Use a Business Disaster Recovery (BDR) and Business Continuity (BC) solution to give both onsite and offsite backup. Ideally this solution will perform multiple backups a day with ZERO interruption to workflow.
• This BDR and BC solution would have virtualization capabilities. That way if there’s ever a problem with a server, the machine can be used a temporary server.
• Verify backups daily
• Advanced endpoint security to proactively detect and remediate threats.

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