Securing your backups: Why ransomware targets recovery data

This piece outlines how ransomware operators increase leverage by compromising backup systems—disabling VSS, falsifying cold backup success, and abusing legitimate backup tools—and recommends building resilient hot, warm, and cold backup strategies. It advises restricting access to backup locations, testing integrity and restorability, enforcing MFA, isolating backup software from the internet, and defining clear retention policies to strengthen cyber resilience.