IBM Spectrum Virtualize Safeguarded Copy
Several months ago I was asked by a local organization here if I could recover files from a system that had been encrypted by a ransomware attack. After looking at the hard drive in the system and doing some research, I told the organization that I could not. It did not have a backup of the files, at least not a recent one. The most critical data loss for this organization was financial records. It took a few months and a lot of work to recover most of the missing records. Had the organization done something as simple as periodically plug in a USB drive, run a backup and then remove the drive, that would have saved them a lot of work. The USB drive is somewhat of an immutable copy of the data, at least as long as it is not plugged into the computer while the computer is still infected. However, a USB-attached drive doesn't really scale well at the enterprise level, and it is not a true immutable copy, since if it is plugged back into a computer that is infected, i