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Barracuda adds AWS replication to Barracuda Backup

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Since launching Barracuda Backup many years ago, we've added several capabilities that give customers the option to deploy the data protection strategy that best fits their own unique business environments.  Barracuda LiveBoot, Cloud-to-Cloud backup, and SharePoint Online Backup are just some of the exciting and innovative technologies we've introduced over the years.  Now we're taking another step forward by adding support for replication to Amazon Web Services (AWS).  Take a look at our press release here and our corporate site here for details.

Barracuda Backup has supported secure and efficient offsite data replication for several years.  Customers could configure replication to the Barracuda Cloud or to an offsite Barracuda Backup physical or virtual appliance.  This met the needs of customers who either had no additional Barracuda Backup appliance or who are required to maintain strict ownership over data.  With our new support for replication to AWS, our customers can now meet these needs by replicating to their own AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket.

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Data Recovery in the Age of Ransomware

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Earlier this year, the world recognized World Backup Day (WBD) as a reminder to everyone that data is important and has to be protected. As part of the WBD recognition, Barracuda ran a series of blog posts on the reasons why companies lose data even when they do almost everything right.

As a follow up to our WBD activities, Barracuda conducted a survey of general technologists whose responsibilities include data protection and recovery. To be blunt, some of these results are alarming. In this article, we are going to run through the results, explain what they mean, and take a look at how to resolve these issues of concern.

Ransomware

As you know, ransomware is a global epidemic and is expected to cost over $5 billion in damages in 2017. Ransomware is a dangerous attack because it doesn't just make a system unavailable; it renders the data unusable. This has already caused a great deal of trouble for healthcare institutions, government entities, law enforcement agencies, and of course, businesses all over the world. If you've fallen victim to a ransomware attack, there are only two ways to get your data back without paying the ransom: get a free decryptor from a service like this one, or fall back on your data protection strategy and recover your data.

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Ransomware and K-12 – Threats and Solutions: Training and Awareness

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*Note: This is the first post in a multi-part blog series that addresses ransomware threats and solutions in K-12 environments.

In February of 2016, South Carolina’s Horry County School District had no choice but to pay a $10,000 ransom to unlock critical data and systems following a ransomware attack. But, could the attack have been prevented — or perhaps after the school district was attacked, could they have avoided paying the ransom?

It’s no secret that we’re right in the middle of a ransomware epidemic, where the example here of Horry County having to pay to unlock critical files has become far too common. But what if Horry County’s users were more aware of how to detect possible threats like ransomware? Would the outcome have been different? Let’s take a look at why proactive user training and awareness can help keep students and faculty stay safe from cyber threats. 

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75,000 computers, 99 countries, 28 languages, 1 massive attack

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It's been a hectic day in the world.  99 countries were hammered with a ransomware attack against industries of all kinds.  Over 75,000 machines were infected as of this afternoon. 

What's going on?

A relatively young piece of ransomware called WanaCrypt0r has been spreading rapidly since this morning.  A variant of WanaCrypt0r, named WeCry, was originally discovered in February of this year .

What makes this piece of ransomware so prolific today is that it is packaged as part of an exploit tool called ETERNALBLUE that leverages a known vulnerability in Windows that was patched in March as part of Windows Updates.  This was an SMB vulnerability (MS17-010), which allowed malicious code to travel from system to system.  Older Windows systems that are no longer supported would not have received a patch, and many supported systems were simply not updated.  Delays caused by compatibility testing and limited resources often leave systems unpatched and at risk.

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Vote for Barracuda and Intronis in the ChannelPro 2017 Readers’ Choice Awards

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We are excited to share the news that Barracuda and Intronis MSP Solutions by Barracuda (Intronis) have been nominated for the ChannelPro 2017 Readers' Choice Awards in the following categories:

 

Barracuda – Best Security Hardware Vendor

Barracuda – Best Email Security Vendor

 

Intronis – Best Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery Vendor

Intronis – Best Backup and Disaster Recovery Vendor

 

Readers' Choice Awards are annual awards presented by the ChannelPro Network, which is a media company that focuses on the small and midsize IT marketplace for IT channel partners.  ChannelPro readers tend to be IT consultants, VARs, and MSPs, and most of them work in some level of management.

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The growing need for cloud-to-cloud backup

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Millions of people have turned to Office 365 and other public cloud solutions to meet their productivity and collaboration needs.  Microsoft's FY16 Q4 results revealed better-than-expected performance, with growth across multiple products and segments.  For example, compared to prior year:

“…resellers [are] indicating
strong Office 365 and
Dynamics demand for the
quarter as well as
a good pipeline for Azure.”

~Brendan Barnicle
Analyst, Pacific Crest
  • Azure compute usage has doubled, and cloud revenue is up 102%
  • Office and Dynamics (Microsoft Productivity) segment increased 7%
  • Office 365 commercial seat growth is up 45%
  • Microsoft Intelligent Cloud grew 7%

You can see more details in this earnings release from Microsoft.

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Healthcare ransomware – you don’t have to be the victim

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Yet another ransomware attack has hit the news – this one notable for a number of reasons.  One was the extent of the attack, another was how it disrupted the impacted healthcare organization, but probably the biggest part of the story was how a lot of this could have been avoided.

The victim was Austin Urology, and because of the number of impacted individuals, it wound up in the #2 spot on the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights “wall of shame” website.  This is because over 260,000 individuals were potentially impacted.

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