Ransomware and Post Production

Unlike a car crash, a ransomware attack is most likely uninsurable. So, the effects on a major media enterprise, production company or post facility can be totally devastating. Here’s why we should all be concerned, however big or small an organisation.?

We have seen very successful attacks on major broadcasters in the Americas, Asia, and EMEA – high profile events, which on occasions have caused irrecoverable loss or significant outage. These major organisations are well resourced and have large IT departments, with smart people and yet they have still succumbed to a ransomware attack. The?only?reason we knew these enterprise attacks were successful was because the effects were public facing through impaired service.

However, the prevalence of successful ransomware attacks in SMEs is as high – and probably higher – than the big enterprises. The SMEs don’t get or indeed want any publicity but the impact is just as painful.

The biggest mistakes are assuming a pre-existing business continuity strategy will protect against ransomware, plus the assumption is that data tape libraries are safe. This is also compounded by the widespread use of virtualised and often remote infrastructure. A business continuity (BC) strategy usually has some form of mirroring and or replication of business-critical components and often the concept of an automatic live fail-over in the event of fire or flood, etc.

Ransomware, by virtue of its design, does not result in a single point failure. It will destroy the redundant system just as quickly as the primary system as they are usually network-connected. So, a conventional business continuity strategy is not a fit form of mitigation. Let us first consider some examples of successful attacks:....

Read the full article here:

https://theiabm.org/mitigating-the-effects-of-ransomware-on-television-post-production/

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