In January 2021, Maschinenringe became increasingly concerned about its data security and the potential for Veeam® ransomware due to the growing prevalence of successful data deletion and ransomware attacks across all industries worldwide. Despite having robust security measures in place for servers, networks, and endpoints, cyberattacks have proven to be effective even in secure environments to delete and encrypt backup files.
The company was aware that it could easily experience a ransomware attack, meaning that all of its primary data and backup files could be encrypted or deleted due to malicious data corruption. This option was unacceptable to HANDLE Tyrol, particularly with the risk of a ransom demand without the guaranteed recovery of any lost data.
