[Info-vax] OpenVMS x64 Atom project

[Jeffrey H. Coffield]

On 06/05/2021 10:10 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2021-06-05 09:21:30 +0000, Marc Van Dyck said:
>
>> Stephen Hoffman presented the following explanation :
>>>
>>> One of the ransom cases I've cleaned up after some years ago had the
>>> perpetrator silently corrupt multiple backups over time, deeper than
>>> the organization's backup rotation schedule. The perpetrator then
>>> ransomed the only remaining good copy of the organization's
>>> databases. In recent ransom attacks on other platforms, the attackers
>>> have been active in the target organization's networks for weeks and
>>> months, too.
>>>
>> I suppose that people in this organization never tried restores ?
>> Doing regular restores to ensure the integrity of your backups is one
>> of the major recommendations, isn't it ?
>
> How many folks here full-path test their restores at all?  [hint: less
> than all.]
>
> Then how many of that group test those restores more often than their
> backup rotation depth?
>
> Then how many of that smaller group verify the database structures?
>
> Then how many of that yet smaller group verify the contents of the
> database or the configuration files or other changes against production?

At several (not all) sites the backups are automatically restored every 
day to a test/backup system which is used for development.