AI is making attacks harder to keep up with and prevention less effective because it makes offensive capabilities available to everyone This article explores attackers backup data. . These attackers go after backup data 96% of the time.

This data is often not well-funded or protected until a crisis makes it visible. Anthony Cusimano from Object First says that you should use a honeypot approach around backup infrastructure to trick bad people into thinking they have backups. He puts this in the context of a board-level discussion and asks leaders to think about what would happen if every credential in the company were stolen and whether backup software and storage systems could still work in that situation. He supports Object First's "Absolute Immutability."

Their zero-access backup method makes sure that data stays unchanged and can't be accessed, even when using admin credentials.

It makes sure that data stays locked to hardware, operating systems, and storage object layers, so that people who aren't allowed to can make changes or delete them.