We run with: 1. A three node cluster on 3 leg Gigabit fibre LAN with dual fibre on each of the 3 legs for backup. Switches auto route all traffic down the lan according to the data workload at the time of any requests and will reroute traffic automatically in the case of a fibre fault.

2. Veeam Enterprise which constantly backs up our servers so we can restore back to any point in the last 6 months for data storage as well as Outlook emails. The nice thing about Veeam is that you can open archived postboxes and look at their content to investigate any potential trojans/viruses.

3. two x Sonicwall boxes to act as advanced firewalls for access to/from the big wide world, keeping out all the bad guys.

4. Microsoft Snapshotting of all the VM's (25 in total) once every 30 minutes so we can recover any of the 20 VM's on request up to 30 days old The total

5. SQL Server Mirroring with auto failover and manual fail back to/from another cluster of backup machines in real time. Mirroring is soon to be updated to run SQL Clustering once our tests have proved it is resilient enough to support our 17Tb of live data

6. Total lockdown on all PC's disallowing all USB/CD devices to be used without authorisation.

Backup disaster recovery is practiced at least once a month by dropping one node in the cluster whilst running live with no prior warning to the end users so we are fairly robust in the security department and we know the auto recovery/fail back systems all work as they should.

As they say once bitten twice shy, been there working 60 hours flat out to resurrect a dead system and never want to revisit that scenario!

Dave Crozier Software Development Manager Flexipol Packaging Ltd.

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-----Original Message----- From: ProFox profox-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: 28 March 2018 14:33 To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: Wonder if this ransomware attack in Atlanta was involving any VFP files?

We had a senior VP open an invoice that he shouldn't have and one of those started ripping through our space. We were lucky and found it early because a compromised machine no longer was doing what it should. We were very lucky.

Since then we have a different backup solution, a functioning DR solution and ability to run our network from an ATT cloud source like it was here. Or so we think.....

We have tested many parts of the solution but never a true turnover to it. Yeah, will hate that weekend.

So what is your DR situation like? Is your data off of your network as well as on it in backups? Ransomware doesn't give a flip if it is your backup files with "file security" or not.

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 1:27 AM, < mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/city-of-atlanta-still-crip pled-six-days-after-ransomware-attack/ar-BBKMJPY

Makes you wonder, since government had a lot of Fox apps over the years (and maybe many still do).

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