Software and services come and go, but will your data survive? Microsoft has retired Publisher, Amazon gave Mechanical Turk customers 5 weeks’ notice, and a new part of the EU Data Act took effect. BackupAssist founder Linus Chang looks at what the 3 stories say about who decides whether you can use your own data.
BackupAssist 365 has been happily using the Microsoft EWS API for many years, but how we back up email will soon change because Microsoft is
Introduction Are cybersecurity frameworks genuinely useful, and something you should consider? Are they a box-ticking exercise, or do they actually make your business genuinely harder
Companion document to the Snapshots for ransomware resilience – research report. It documents the full experimental procedure and screenshot evidence behind that report’s scorecard, in
In the fight against ransomware, every extra security mechanism aimed at preserving and shielding backups from attack can be helpful in ensuring you have a viable recovery point.
We tested the latest NAS offering from Ubiquiti, and scored the Ubiquiti NAS a 5.5/10 for cyber-resilience. While this score may seem low, in reality we believe this device offers good “bang for buck” and is far superior to the common practice of backing up to a Windows share (which scores 1/10).
In the fight against ransomware, every extra security mechanism aimed at preserving and shielding backups from attack can be helpful in ensuring you have a viable recovery point.
We tested the latest NAS offering from Ubiquiti, and scored the Ubiquiti NAS a 5.5/10 for cyber-resilience. While this score may seem low, in reality we believe this device offers good “bang for buck” and is far superior to the common practice of backing up to a Windows share (which scores 1/10).
Most ransomware attacks don’t begin with encryption. They begin with a hunt. Before any files are scrambled, the attacker, a person already inside your network, goes looking for your backups and destroys the ones they can reach, because a backup you can restore from is a ransom you don’t have to pay.
Yet there’s a feature in millions of NAS devices that costs precisely nothing to switch on. And it could save you from a six-figure ransom.
Your backup job starts at 150 MB/s. An hour later it’s doing 25 — no errors, no warnings, nothing obviously wrong. This kind of problem is so baffling that it’s easy to blame the backup software. But nine times out of ten, the culprit is something far more mundane: you bought the wrong type of hard drive.
Most people think AI safety is about rogue machines. But a more immediate risk is losing access to your AI account and the files stored inside it. After a YouTuber was locked out of Claude without warning, BackupAssist founder Linus Chang explores a different kind of AI safety problem: dependence on AI platforms that can disappear overnight.
As data shifts into Microsoft 365, on-premise backups stop covering everything they used to. The natural instinct is to use the OneDrive sync app to fill that gap — but this is often unreliable and problematic. We explain why, and how to properly extend your backup coverage to include Microsoft 365 data.
I’ve been building backup software for Windows since 2002. So why have I personally switched to Linux and Mac wherever possible? Three things Microsoft did drove me there — and they serve as a cautionary tale for all software vendors.
We once took a call from an IT administrator who had a backup with no faults, and still could not recover a thing. Germany’s latest policy decision explains exactly why that happens — and how to avoid it.
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