Companies Should Be Glad, That Other People Are Helping Them With Their Offsite Backup

Companies Should Be Glad, That Other People Are Helping Them With Their Offsite Backup
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When hackers steal your data, they're technically just creating an additional backup copy in a geographically distributed location. It's like having a disaster recovery plan you never asked for! Sure, the top panel shows the standard corporate panic response to a data breach, but the bottom panel reveals the silver lining: you now have a "decentralized surprise backup" courtesy of some friendly neighborhood cybercriminals.

The reframing here is chef's kiss – turning a catastrophic security incident into an unexpected infrastructure upgrade. It's the ultimate glass-half-full perspective on ransomware attacks. Who needs AWS S3 cross-region replication when you've got threat actors doing it for free? Your CISO might not appreciate this hot take during the incident response meeting though.

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