This was an interesting read about a recent ransomware attack to hit the Baltimore government. Apparently, the attack resulted in large losses of key/critical data, that was only stored on user’s local computers. There are a few issues here and the article dives into each of them. First, why were users storing critical/key data locally on their computers? This data should have been stored in a centralized location. Second, this obviously was not a one-off situation. For the government to lose a lot of this data, it was not just a few people not following policies. This was a systemic method for storing and manipulating data. Is the IT department to blame for not implementing a workstation backup solution, to address this systemic problem? The data stored centrally was able to recover from the ransomware attack, but the workstation data was not.
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