Timeline for Are cloud storage services a good strategy to protect against ransomware attacks?
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| Apr 19, 2016 at 13:26 | history | edited | John McNamara | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 19, 2016 at 13:25 | comment | added | John McNamara | @LieRyan That's a clever and effectively a similar solution, 1 untrusted PC to provide source data and 1 trusted PC to act as backup process authority. It would be great if all the cloud vendors adopted a standard around this idea. I'm not aware of any that offer it, maybe some of Amazon's more complex solutions? | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 12:24 | comment | added | Lie Ryan | Backup to cloud storage can be safe against ransomware if it uses a log file storage, i.e. all file modifications are translated to appending a versioning log, and that the authorization token used in the machine is not permitted to alter historical logs. Most consumer grade cloud storages do support versioning, but I don't know if any can be restricted to append-only permission. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 10:50 | comment | added | Ben | Cool idea! Ransomware crawls available network drives, so you're not making the computer push the backup, you're making the backup pull the computer. I wonder if the several network-controlled backup solutions can work this way. | |
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| Apr 19, 2016 at 9:09 | history | answered | John McNamara | CC BY-SA 3.0 |