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A Non-Sports Nerd Talks About the Importance of the Olympics and Why Other Nerds Should Care

The Olympics’ official website has published an entire page on what you need to know about cybersecurity and the Olympic games. It’s an excellent primer for those less technically inclined to understand how they can protect themselves digitally and still have fun watching people throw disks at each other. 

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Object First’s Secure Repository for Veeam: Ootbi and IT Security

In this article, we’ll look at IT security in backup architecture as a continuous process that needs to be constantly revisited. 

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Unlocking the Secrets of the Veeam Hardened Repository Part 2

In my previous blog, I discussed the Veeam Hardened Repository, why we need it, its uses, and its limitations. Today, I want to discuss this subject in more detail while providing links to build instructions with commentary. There are numerous ways to build a Veeam Hardened Repository, and one must choose carefully which method to use, as any errors or miscalculations will be very difficult to solve further down the road. 

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Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1.2: Everything You Need to Know

Veeam has just released Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1.2, which brings a host of new features, security updates, and performance enhancements. Explore the significant changes and improvements to stay updated, enhance data security, and optimize your backup processes. 

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VeeamON 2024 Being There in the Moment

VeeamON 2024 is behind us, and as always, it is time to reflect on the event and review some of the highlights.

Attending IT conferences is always special, but after experiencing the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic, they have taken on even more meaning and significance. Often, one learns through deprivation, which was certainly the case regarding IT gatherings during the lockdowns.

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It’s Conference Season: Zero Trust Perspectives on RSA Conference and VeeamON

Guest blogger Jason Garbis is the Founder of Numberline Security, co-chair of the Zero Trust Working Group at the Cloud Security Alliance, and author of two books on Zero Trust. He joins us to share insights on information security and Zero Trust.

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The 192TB Ootbi: A New Era of Backup Storage

It's been a wild ride since Object First Ootbi launched on February 14th, 2023. 
Over the last year, we've added many new customers and grown tremendously as a company, more than doubling in size, securing Veeam backup data from ransomware. 
Here's a quick look back at how far we've come and what's new with Ootbi.
 

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Not Zero Trust Backup Architectures

In blog #2 of this series, we delved into the central principles of the Zero Trust Data Resilience (ZTDR) model: segmentation, multiple data resilience zones, and immutable backup storage. This model and architecture, a collaborative effort between Veeam and Numberline Security, extends CISA’s Zero Trust principles and Maturity Model to the enterprise data backup and recovery use case. 

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3 Zero Trust Principles for Data Backup

In blog #1 of this series, we have outlined Zero Trust principles and introduced the new Zero Trust Data Resilience (ZTDR) model. The ZTDR model and architecture have been developed in collaboration between Veeam and Numberline Security. It extends the tenets of CISA’s Zero Trust Maturity Model with the following principles that cover enterprise data backup and recovery.

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Time to update your passwords again, it's world password day

Let’s be real here: passwords are dying. In the olden days, you could get by with 2-3 memorable passwords and brute-force your brain to figure out how to get into your MySpace account without fear of being locked out, and that was still pretty secure.