An institution went a week without its land-registry system, and the attacker claims to have deleted the backups too. Here’s the lesson for any small business. ANCPI’s systems (e-Terra) have been unavailable since 13 July after a cyberattack; DNSC is working with the agency.
What matters for you isn’t the scale but the target: the backups. Ransomware looks for them first, because a company without a backup ends up paying.
- Check where your backups live. On the same network as the server? Then an attack can reach them as easily as the original data.
- Keep at least one offline or immutable copy (one that cannot be deleted), separate from the day-to-day network.
- Test a restore — a backup you’ve never restored is just an assumption.
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