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The Backup Wrap-Up — 356 episodes
Stopping Ransomware Lateral Movement Before It Spreads
Ransomware Response Checklist: Prevent It, Slow It, Survive It
How to Protect Backups from Ransomware (Encore)
What Is Data Deduplication? (Encore)
The REDCap Attack that Phishing-Resistant MFA Could Have Stopped
California Election Fraud? (Pt 2)
California Election Counting Explained by an Actual Poll Worker
Stop 90% of Ransomware Attacks with Basic Cyber Hygiene
Claude Deletes a Company — But It's Not Really Claude's Fault
How Honeypots and Canary Files Catch Attackers Before They Strike
Network Segmentation to Prevent Ransomware: What the UCSF Attack Taught Us
The Real Cost of a Ransomware Attack: The Ransom Is the Least of Your Problems
How Polymorphic Malware Evades Detection — And What to Do About It
Emergency Episode: The PyPI Software Supply Chain Attack You Need to Know About
Fileless Malware: The Attack That Lives in Memory
Living Off the Land Attack: Hackers Using Your Own Tools Against You
New Research Exposes Password Manager Vulnerabilities in LastPass, Bitwarden & Dashlane
What Is an Initial Access Broker — and Why Should You Care?
Ransomware as a Service: How Anyone Can Buy a Cyberattack
The CryptoLocker Virus and the Birth of Modern Ransomware
A Brief History of Ransomware
How Ransomware Works: The Five Objectives of Every Attack
Disk Backup Security - Disk Make Things Worse?
What Is Ransomware and Why Should You Care?
Backup TCO: The Costs Nobody Talks About
Why Ransomware Attacks on Backups Should Terrify You
Building Your Cyber Security Team: Blue Teams, Red Teams, and Cyber Insurance
Building a resilient backup system
10 Must-Have Features of Any Backup System
The Death of the 3-2-1 Rule: Enter 3-2-1-1-0
How to Set Realistic Recovery Point Objective (RPO) Goals
Recovery Time Objective vs Reality: Closing the Gap
Microsoft 365 backup is NOT an option - It's mandatory
Detect Ransomware Before It Destroys Your Business
The ArcGIS Hack That Turned Backups Into a Malware Repository
Deepfake Attacks: The Growing Threat to Enterprise Security
Cyber Attack Notification - Final Lessons from Mr. Robot Season One
Insider Threats and the Power of Least Privilege Access
Advanced Persistent Threats Explained Through Mr. Robot
Cybersecurity Situational Awareness Lessons from Mr. Robot
Honeypot Server Best Practices - From Mr. Robot to Reality
Privilege Escalation Explained: Mr. Robot Cybersecurity Lessons
Mr Robot Lessons: Cybersecurity in the Workplace
Social Engineering Attacks: Lessons from Mr. Robot Episode 3
Reconnaissance in Cyber Security: Lessons from Mr. Robot ep 1.1
Social Engineering Lessons from Mr. Robot Episode 1
Insider Threat Prevention: Protecting Your Backups from Within
Mission Impossible Movie Teaches Real Cyber Security Lessons
The EU Cloud Exit - Backup Strategies for Digital Sovereignty
What Is an Air Gap Backup? Real Protection vs Marketing
Largest Data Breach in History: What You Need to Know
How do you make a snapshot backup?
Human error: Why We Backup
How to Extract ROI from Backups
World Backup Day: Take the Pledge to Protect Your Data
Ransomware Targets VMware ESXi: Melissa Palmer Explains the Threat
Breaking Down the VeeamOn Announcements for Backup Admins
DOGE and GSA Claim $1M Savings by Ditching Old Tape Tech
Why Tape Backup for Small Business Makes Sense Against Ransomware
How Forever Incremental Backup Changed the World
Cloud vs Tape Throwdown: Which is Better for Archiving?
Disaster Recovery Lessons from 9/11 and Beyond
How to Choose the Best Password Manager: Security Features That Matter
Is Tape Backup Dead? Why This Technology Still Matters
Hide Your Backup Disk from Ransomware
Your 4-Hour Recovery Time Objective is Fantasy
Passwords vs Passkeys: The Future of Backup Security
No one cares about your backup window!
Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Backup?
Disaster Recovery Testing: The Execution Phase
Choosing the Best Cloud Backup for Your Small Business
Laptop Restore Nightmare: 900GB Recovery Story
Making the Case for Your Backup IT Budget
DR Case Study: A first hand-account
NetBackup Disaster: When Nature Strikes Back
Free NetBackup Reader: S2|DATA's Game-Changing Tool
Disaster Recovery Test Gone Wrong
Disaster Recovery Testing: Start Small Before Going Big
Detecting Ransomware Before It's Too Late
RTO vs RPO: The Foundations of Backup Design
Backup from Hell: SMB vs 400TB
Election Integrity 101: What Every Voter Should Know
The Dark Side of Backup System Consolidation
Rogue Administrator Nightmare: Lessons from a Real-Life Attack
Business Impact Analysis: Your Key to Resilient Operations
Building a Resilient Ransomware Backup Strategy
Detecting Ransomware Before It's Too Late
Tabletop Exercises: Your Secret Weapon Against Cyberattacks
Fostering a Culture of Cybersecurity with Training
Incident Response Plan 101: From BIA to Execution
Reducing Your Cyberattack Blast Radius: Expert Tips
Ransomware Forensics: Preserving Digital Evidence
The Cyber Insurance Playbook: What You Need to Know
Advanced Ransomware Prevention
IT Security Audit Essentials: Protect Your Network
How to Stop Ransomware: 3 Essential Strategies
Immutable Backups: Your Ultimate Defense Against Ransomware
Protect Backups from Ransomware: Expert Strategies
Ransomware 101: What is ransomware?
XDR vs SIEM: Do you need to choose?
Strengthening Your Cybersecurity Blue Team: Pro Tips
Thinking Like a Hacker: Red Team Cyber Security Strategies
Google Cloud Disaster Recovery: Lessons from UniSuper's Close Call
Electronic Discovery tools that extract from backups
Cloud Disaster Recovery: Lessons from Failures
Life Uncontained YouTube Channel Loses Month of Footage in Crash
The Disastrous Dedoose Crash: Lessons Learned
StorageCraft Outage: Lessons from a Cloud Backup Disaster
Rackspace Ransomware Attack: Lessons Learned
The Carbonite Lawsuit: A Cloud Backup Cautionary Tale
Salesforce.com's Permission Slip-Up (Another Cloud Disaster)
KPMG Blunder Proves Microsoft 365 Needs Backup (Cloud Disasters)
OVHCloud Dumpster Fire (Cloud Disasters)
Cloud disasters: Musey deletes their own company!
Cloud catastrophes: Codespaces.com deleted out of existence
Crafting the Perfect Disaster Recovery Runbook
To DRaaS or Not to DRaaS? Comparing Disaster Recovery Approaches
Hot, Warm, and Cold: DR Site Strategies
Disaster Recovery Site: Build, Buy, or Cloud?
Disaster Recovery 101: Laying the Groundwork for a Good DR Plan
Disaster Recovery 101 - Back to the Fundamentals
Backup Fails at Archive: Billion-Dollar eDiscovery Disasters
Backup to Basics: Traditional Data Sources
Get Ready Before You Get Got: Ransomware Response Planning
To Change or Not to Change Your Backup System
Why you should care about Copy Data Management
Snap, Replicate, & Protect: Leveraging Near CDP
Reborn and Reimagined: Don't Write Off Tape Just Yet
Virtually Air Gapped: Assessing Cloud Data Protection
Snapshots vs. Backups: Understanding the Difference
CDP: The Next Great Thing in DR?
The Role of Replication in Modern Data Protection systems
Is it a backup or just a copy?
The importance of backing up cloud resources
The Importance of Backing Up IOT Devices
Hybrid Cloud Storage: Back it up or not?
Restore it All is Changing Its Name
The Merging Worlds of Information Security and Data Protection
Why it's process, then people, then technology
The Unforeseen U-turn: Inside Microsoft 365's Backup Revolution
Are password managers no longer an option?
Identity Orchestration: Simplifying Multi-Cloud Identity Management
Red team leader shares how to think like a hacker
Blue team stories from the cyber attack trenches
Should you disclose your cyber attack?
Backup security is abysmal, says backup security expert
Your backup product is probably lying to you
Former Green Beret advises us on Cyber Security
How to foster a culture of recovery in your organization
How to PROPERLY back up your iPhone (iCloud is not a backup!)
Cyber expert not happy with state of cybersecurity today
How do you authenticate with all new hardware?
You could lose access to iCloud account data forever!
How to back up and recover a database (Backup to Basics series)
Flash expert schools Mr. Backup
What are SIEM, SOAR, EDR, XDR? Are they available as a service?
What can you learn from the LastPass hack?
Backing up databases, Part 1 (Backup to basics)
What computers should you back up? (Backup to Basics Series)
Can you apply least privilege to private data?
Six vulnerabilities your password manager might have
What is deduplication and how does it work? (Backup to Basics series)
Preparing an incident response plan for ransomware
What to do with your network in a ransomware attack
Could your backup system achieve Sheltered Harbor certification?
Do you need a managed security service provider (MSSP)?
@vmiss warns about ransomware attacks on VMware
Block ransomware from writing to your Windows Veeam backup server
Don't be like LastPass
Mr. Backup reflects on 30-year career
Protecting backups from ransomware (Backup to Basics)
Backup team completes two-year project in three months
Best of 2022 - Backups, Security, and Ransomware
Shocking RackSpace Hosted Exchange Ransomware Attack
Understanding Backup Levels (Backup to Basics Series)
Risk Management Advice from an industry expert
What is archive and retrieve? (Backup to Basics)
What is backup and restore? (Backup to Basics Series)
Divining Requirements out of the Organization
Getting approval for a new backup design (Backup to Basics Series)
When to use public or private cloud AND how to protect it
Why do we even back up? (Backup to Basics Series)
International lawyer discusses e-discovery in US & other countries
Your cyber insurance doesn't want to pay for your hack
Learning lessons from the Uber and LA USD cyberattacks
Top 5 security mistakes you're making in the cloud
How to back up Jira
What are RTO and RPO & how do they drive backup design?
Why you need a password manager
Datacore becomes leader in container-attached storage
M-disc founder explains how it keeps data for 1000 years
The industry's first $10M data resiliency guarantee (From Druva)
Warshipping: The latest trick in the bad actor's playbook
Really inexpensive AND secure storage systems for backup
Using and backing up Hammerspace's global filesystem
The Five Most Dangerous New Cyber Attack Techniques (A review of the RSA Keynote)
Is M-Disc the ultimate archive medium for SMBs and home users?
Backup practitioner tells stories from the trenches
Just do something! (about your security and your backups)
Seven reasons why your restore may slower than your backup
Data protection warrior explains LTO & RDX
Top seven things you must stop doing with your backups
How to prepare for an emergency (at home and work)
Snorkel42, security expert from reddit, explains his security cadence series
How to prevent ransomware, slow its spread, and respond if you get it
Vast Data really does appear to be "vast"
A look inside the Conti ransomware group
Backup is evil (or at least how many people do it is)
Security expert rips Okta for their response to hack
Restore test fails due to bad documentation
Should you backup SaaS with BaaS?
Top 10 Ransomware Attacks of 2021
Mr. Backup takes on reddit about Microsoft 365 backup
Mr. Backup Forced to Restore BackupCentral.com!
Should DR/backup folks report to the security team?
What Can We Learn From University of Kyoto Losing 77 TB of Research Data?
Free backup tools for MySQL & MongoDB explained by author of Learning MySQL
Happy Data Privacy Day!
Does K8s still need DR? O'Reilly K8s Author On the Hot Seat!
Resiliency expert reviews Major Facebook Outage
Remembering the Best and Worst of 2021
IT Admin deletes entire datacenter THEN tests his backups!
ZFS filesystem in the cloud – just for your backups
Rclone creator Nick Craig-Wood Explains This Powerful Tool
FujiFilm Tape Evangelist Explains Past, Present & Future of Tape/LTO
Peter Krogh, who coined "the 3-2-1 rule," on our podcast!
Mr. Backup and Mr. SQL argue over how to backup SQL Server
Deep dive into why tape still has a future in storage
Transfer backups from one product to the next
Veeam reps explain defense against Conti ransomware
Stop Ransomware Attacks in Seconds
ZFS is not magic - it needs backup and RAID
How good is your backup system, really?
Restoring quickly from a ransomare attack with a long dwell time
Protecting Your Network from Ransomware
We found a company that verifies backups as a service!
Is Entity-Level Encryption The Answer to Exfiltration Ransomware?
Is Apple Violating iPhone Users' Privacy?
CockroachDB: the SQL database as resilient as its namesake
No backups - just beef & bbq
HYCU VP explains their service to Mr. Backup
Mr. Backup Grills StorOne on Their Data Protection Story
Emmy Winning Sound Mixer Explains Movie Archiving
Information Security Expert Says it Must Evolve
Are You Vulnerable to an Attack like the one on Kaseya?
Tape Drive Designer Schools Mr. Backup on Tape
Why you need a copy of Modern Data Protection
Can OVH properly redesign their backup infrastructure?
ComplyTrust: Remembering those you need to forget
OVH's Backup Service Didn't Work
How do You Prove Your Backup Service is Real?
Datacenter manager Dan Frith discusses the OVH Fire
Dave Russell answers our questions about Veeam
Fortune 100 company considers changing backup product
Veeam User Warns About Item-Level Retention in Microsoft 365 Backup
Securing & speeding up network traffic w/o VPN or SD-WAN
What we learned in 100 episodes of Backup Central's Restore it All
Kubernetes Expert Explains K8s, the CSI, and backups
Porteguese University Using Open-Source Backup Tools
Create a physical air-gap without using tape using portable disk
Ransomware Victim Tells HIs Story
Bacula: Sucking the Vital Essence from your computers
Back in my day, backups were really hard
Distributed Ledger (e.g. BlockChain) expert explains how to use it for security
Blockchain expert explains blockchain & distributed ledgers
Using backup to refresh your server, laptop, and phone
Netbackup & Rubrik User Tells Their STory
Scary data loss stories
The Very Tape-Centric Backup Views in Finland
Stop ransomware in its tracks with DNS, DHCP, IPAM!
Microsoft 365 expert explains why you need to back it up
Microsoft 365 architecture that needs to be backed up
2021 Storage and Data Protection Predictions
Inside look at the DDOS attack on Fathom Analytics
Disaster Recovery after a hurricane - a First Hand Account
Author of Cloud-Native Patterns explains importance of cloud-native design
Public Health Expert Explains COVID-19 Vaccine News
Doctor & Public Health expert explains current state of the pandemic
Election poll site manager explains US election systems
Dissecting two ransomware attacks on hospitals
Tape may be cheap, but disk is better for backups
Why Tape is Cheaper than Glacier for Long Term Storage
Why is it so hard to backup consumer SaaS products?
The Dangers of Improperly Secured Cloud Accounts
Real Life Hurricane Disaster Recover Story
Backing up MongoDB & Cassandra, a deep dive
Backing up Sharded NoSQL Databases
What is it like to actually use VMware Cloud on AWS? (AKA VMC)
What makes Rust a good, safe programming language?
Proliferation of the edge, containers, & how to protect them
9 Tips for Disaster Recovery
What can we learn from the twitter hack
How to backup a NAS filer?
One big problem with the Right to be Forgotten and Backups
Salesfore Expert explains why backing up SFDC is so important
Are cloud "snapshots" the way to protect cloud resources?
Thoughts on the Cloud from an AWS Customer turned employee
Those that do not remember backup history are condemned to repeat it
Learning from the Honda Ransomware Attack
GigaOm Analyst explains their latest report on data management
One year anniversary special! With the voice behind our theme song!
How Hollywood Picks Backup Products, Part 2
How Hollywood Picks Backup Products (Part 1)
Is backup worthless for DR?
Are Drive Recovery Services a Good Option?
What workloads are appropriate to backup to the cloud?
Why Egress Charges are a fact of life in the cloud
Backup & DR Lessons from The Tiger King & Westworld
Free IT services offered during Coronavirus lockdown
Why everyone should be wearing masks right now!
MD & Masters in Public Health Gives Hope for the Future of the Coronavirus/COVID-19
Are we over-reacting to Coronavirus/COVID-19? Lindsey Shultz M.D./M.P.H. answers that question!
Doctor & Masters in Public Health answers our Coronavirus and COVID-19 questions
A View from Italy & its Coronavirus Quarantine
Coronavirus concerns Part 2
Coronavirus and your data
Brian Biles from Datrium explains how they do HCI & DR
How to create a backup and DR plan
Is there hope in the Kubernetes Backup Space?
Applying Machine Learning to Data Protection
Salesforce reverses its position on their recovery service
Knative Book Author Schools Mr. Backup in Kubernetes & Container backup
Veeam Acquisition – Part 2
Veeam acquisition from an investor perspective
How to back up IaaS, PaaS & SaaS (i.e. cloud-native services)
AWS Outposts & Zombies
How do you backup a container?
Thanksgiving Special
Dispelling lies about AWS snapshots for backups
Are backup admins obsolete?
What to look for in a SaaS data protection solution
How Hollywood Does Storage
Backing up relational databases
Why are vendors offering Backup as a Service?
What do people use instant boot for?
Thoughts on the latest Forrester Wave
Did a GDPR court just cripple GDPR?
Backups - Done - Wrong
How To Win On Jeopardy (A "bonus" episode)
Make sure you're not the next ransomware victim!
Cloud customers lose data
VMworld and Funny Backup Stories
Challenges with Disaster Recovery
Beer and Backups and Banks
Beer and Backups, Part 1
Tape is not dead
Why tape and backup became enemies
How Hollywood does backup
Microsoft disabled the registry backup
The Wifi is Down
How to use the cloud for backup
Why Backup SaaS Services
Disaster Recovery
Protecting from Ransomware
That's not Backup
The Anniversary of GDPR