Recovering from Data Robbery

When ransomware strikes, resilience must respond. Veeam is here to help.

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Let's face it, cybercrime is everywhere: SEO poisoning, malvertising, Quishing (i.e., QR code phishing), and the emergence of deepfake voice cloning and videos. Ransomware is still among the biggest threats to organizations of every size, and no organization is immune. Threat actors live for the thrill of targeting our critical infrastructure, healthcare systems, schools, and anything else they can shake down. Unfortunately, it's no longer an issue of if you'll get that ransom note, it's when.

In this kind of environment, organizations of all sizes need to put their data resilience at the forefront of their ransomware protection strategy. This means coordinating teams ahead of time and coming up with a response plan, proactively monitoring for threats, training staff, regularly testing recovery plans, and picking a resilient data protection solution that best fits your business needs. Solutions should help minimize data loss, downtime, and compliance exposure while safeguarding revenue by ensuring business continuity even when disruptions happen.

With this in mind, it shouldn't be a surprise that Ray Heffer, Veeam's Field CISO and Security Strategist, is a certified ethical hacker. Heffer's obsession with technology began in the analog era when he would dismantle VHS copy protection schemes, which fascinated him. But it was the Commodore 64 that truly ignited his passion, having discovered the underground world of the demo scene, where programmers pushed 8-bit hardware beyond its intended limits. Late nights dialing into bulletin boards connected him to a global community of fellow enthusiasts who would trade software and knowledge across phone lines. Influenced by his father, an amateur radio and electronics enthusiast, Ray's natural talents were encouraged and it didn't take him long to build a career as a cybersecurity expert.