Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Your backup system is supposed to be your safety net. It’s the insurance policy that lets you sleep at night knowing that even if disaster strikes, your business can recover. But there’s a problem: ransomware attackers know about your backups too. And they’re coming for them first. According to data shared in our recent webinar with Pellera, 89% of organizations that experienced ransomware attacks saw clear indications that attackers specifically targeted their backup infrastructure.

The benefits of offering managed services to health care organizations are obvious. The problem? Health care disaster recovery (DR) creates a complex web of compliance requirements that can quickly turn profitable clients into costly liabilities. Health care data breaches average $10.93 million per incident — that's more than double the cost of breaches in other industries. For MSPs serving health care clients, disaster recovery isn't just about getting systems back online.

When Amazon Web Services’ US-East-1 region went down recently, a long list of global apps and services went with it. For most companies, that meant a few hours of frustration. For APRA-regulated financial institutions in Australia, an outage like that is something much more serious — a compliance and operational-resilience test under CPS 230, which is now in force as of July 2025.

Consider that your backup is running smoothly. Your dashboards are green. The DevOps team is sleeping peacefully. And yet, behind the calm surface, something is happening. Your API limits are being chewed up, call by call, until you’re throttled into silence. Suddenly, your system stalls – quietly and invisibly. The irony is, you build a backup system for resilience. Now, it’s the vulnerability. There’s a quiet assumption built into most backup systems.

Historically, agent-based backup systems have been the norm. These systems operate by running software on the production machine, in tandem with the production application. The agent must communicate with its central data protection server for backups to be executed. The agent’s role is to read production data through the OS layer, process it, and transmit backup data to a media or backup server, where it is ultimately stored on a typically proprietary backup storage device.

October 2025 brought disruptions across cloud infrastructure and retail sectors, exposing vulnerabilities in enterprise IT systems.

Repositories move as organizations evolve. Whether they merge or teams reorganize, or tool licensing changes, or compliance requires a shift in hosting regions, a change is inevitable. For IT decision-makers and admins, these transitions are less about preference. The goal here is continuity. A migration failure can stall development and corrupt history. With the latter, fracture audit trails follow. Considering the above, cross-platform support for data migration is therefore an operational demand.

You’ve seen it before. A vendor slides across a partnership agreement that looks promising—great margins, solid technology, and market demand. But buried in the fine print are the real deal-breakers: minimum monthly commitments, annual sales quotas, and escalating targets that turn what should be a profitable partnership into a financial liability. This is the quota trap.

It’s a dark and stormy night in cyberspace. Ransomware monsters lurk in the shadows, ready to encrypt and extort unsuspecting businesses.

When AWS’s US-East-1 region went down again this month, it reminded the industry of an uncomfortable truth: even the most trusted cloud platforms can fail. From streaming services to SaaS providers, many businesses were caught off guard, not because they lacked backups, but because they lacked redundancy. In a Kubernetes world, redundancy isn’t just about having data snapshots.