iT managers for any government function - state agencies, schools, county governments, etc., should be held financially liable and perhaps criminally negligent for not taking proper precautions with citizen owned data.
Who runs a huge data operation not thinking about buying and implementing basic computer virus and malware defenses to prevent these huge ransomware bribes and payoffs?
So typical. Government workers don’t give a damn about the citizens they presumably work for.
And none of them ever get fired or punished.
First the data isn’t citizen owned, it belongs to government
Second Politicians are not even held to this standard, or any government coffee drinker for that matter.
Third These malware attacks that target government and enterprise systems are NOT the same crap that grandma loaded on her peecee by clicking on something. It is an entire different ballgame. These Ukraine/Russian/Eastern Europe hackers are really good, they spend years figuring out a particular target and once they understand their systems they launch an attack. Usually through someone who not knowingly lets them in.
I’m out of the loop.on the latest technology, but, I remember a time when we did backups on our systems, and IT guys backed up the network.
The idea was that everything could be restored from.backup tapes and files if needed.
Do things work differently today? Is it a mot more complicated than simply restoring the backed up data to the system?