{"id":6360,"date":"2019-10-19T18:41:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T22:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/?p=6360"},"modified":"2019-10-19T18:41:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T22:41:59","slug":"baltimore-reportedly-had-no-data-backup-process-for-many-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/2019\/10\/19\/baltimore-reportedly-had-no-data-backup-process-for-many-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Reportedly Had No Data Backup Process for Many Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/attacks-breaches\/baltimore-reportedly-had-no-data-backup-process-for-many-systems\/d\/d-id\/1335953\">https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/attacks-breaches\/baltimore-reportedly-had-no-data-backup-process-for-many-systems\/d\/d-id\/1335953<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/attacks-breaches\/baltimore-reportedly-had-no-data-backup-process-for-many-systems\/d\/d-id\/1335953 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\u2019s local computers. There are a few issues here and the article dives into each of them. First, why were users storing critical\/key data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6361,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360\/revisions\/6361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}