The Uber attack is huge. The initial penetration teaches about MFA, and how they were able to escalate their privileges from there is simply wrong, wrong, wrong. What can you learn from this? Well, we have a cybersecurity expert, and host of the Tech and Main podcast, on the pod this week to help us figure that out. We had planned to just talk about the Uber attack, but he also wanted to talk...
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Cyber security attacks are everywhere, and they’re definitely going after what you have running in your favorite hyperscaler. Today we are joined by Paul Hadgy, CEO of Horangi Security, a cyber security company specializing in securing your cloud infrastructure. We talk about a number of things, but at one point, Mr. Backup asked him what the thought was the five biggest security mistakes...
Jira is yet another service that could be at the center of your organization, and losing the data stored in there could cost you a lot. Did you know it doesn’t even have an audit trail for many things? Not only can you lose data, you might not know what was deleted or who did it! We are joined this week from two representatives from Revyz, a new service to back up Jira. They talk about what...
If you don’t meet your company’s Recovery time objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective with your backup design, nothing else matters. Seriously. No one cares if you can back up – only that you can restore in a timeframe they consider reasonable. The only way that’s going to happen is if you agree to these times UPFRONT. In this episode in our new back to basics series...
Why don’t you have a password manager already? Our guest this week, Chris Hayner, blogger at hayner.net and host of the Chaos Lever podcast, wrote a great blog called Yes, you need a password manager. “Yes, You Do Need A Password Manager, Brett. Yes You Do!” Both Prasanna and Curtis DO have password managers, so he’s preaching to the choir. But if you’d like to hear...
Datacore has been one of the storage industry’s best-kept secrets for a long time, quietly growing a dedicated customer base in Fort Lauderdale. Their CEO, Dave Zabrowski, joins us on this episode to explain their background, and tells us about how their technology and some savvy business decisions resulted in them owning Open EBS, the most popular container-attached storage platform...
This week we have Barry Lunt, one of two founders of Milleniata, the creators of M-Disc. The company may be gone, but the format lives on. Most modern DVD and Blu-Ray drives can write to M-Disc, and Verbatim still sells it. Barry explains to us why they decided to make M-Disc, and why it’s different than any other optical product. He also offers a shocker: a study done many years ago that...
Druva’s new data resiliency guarantee covers more than any other guarantee in the data protection/data resilience segment. It was also written with no silly exclusions (like some other guarantees) that are simply there to keep from having to pay anyone. It requires only a certain service level and that the customer follows Druva’s best practices. It protects against the five areas of...
Warshipping is yet another way hackers are taking advantage of how the pandemic has changed the workplace. Did you know you could be hacked by UPS, Fedex, or the postal service? Warshipping is shipping a self-powered device in a package so that it arrives at your office and is left unattended. (It’s sent to someone working from home.) The device then sits there, sniffing the wifi, and...
If you’re one of those people that look at typical storage offerings for backup and recovery and say, “I can’t afford this,” you’re not alone. A lot of ready-to-go storage solutions can get very expensive very quickly. Our guest this week (Erik Ableson from Infrageeks.com) ran into this a lot with his small-government customers and SMBs in France, and knew he had to...