{"id":348,"date":"2019-11-13T15:09:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T15:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=348"},"modified":"2022-06-28T11:44:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T15:44:18","slug":"online-backups-and-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"Online Backups and Ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Online backups are NOT a solution to Ransomware as the Ransomware can encrypt the backups the same way it encrypts all other files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is difficult to get your backup software to do 2FA as it requires human intervention.  2 Factor Authentication (2FA) means something other than a password, ie fingerprint, faceID, Time based token etc) to change any files.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s solution to Ransomware encrypting online backups is to have a static-ish locaton that requires 2 factor authentication (2FA).  It is unclear how automated backups get to this static location, maybe after a set period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More Info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2019\/06\/25\/onedrive-personal-vault-added-security-onedrive-additional-storage\/\">here <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wasabi&#8217;s solution is to have backups become immuteable (unchangeable) after a set period of time, without the 2FA option.  I don&#8217;t think i have ever needed to change a historical backup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online backups are NOT a solution to Ransomware as the Ransomware can encrypt the backups the same way it encrypts all other files. It is difficult to get your backup&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54,3],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-backup","tag-smb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}