Security Tips For Protecting Your Backup Servers

The rapid rise of malware attacks in the past few years has brought to the attention of administrators and C-level roles alike the increased risk businesses face today regarding data loss, crippling production delays and harmful reputation hits. Not only is the frequency of malware on the rise, but the ever-changing complexity or polymorphic characteristics of malware creates a huge hurdle for detection to find and isolate. In fact, in 2019, 93% of malware strains seen by Webroot were polymorphic.

This has led to businesses evaluating and implementing a multi- layered approach to securing and protecting company data. This paper will focus on additional measures and techniques to specifically protect the backup environment, as well as the Carbonite multi-layer approach for securing your data, part of our cyber resilience philosophy.