CEO compensation theater is simply a distraction from real economic issues.

It was pretty uninspired. It only compares well against more recent Hellraiser films because they were low effort films probably focused on just retaining the legal rights to the intellectual property.

I wasn't a fan of the new Pinhead and Goran Visnjic was the best part of the film and he wasn't given much to work with.

Congratulations to you guys. Look forward to seeing you in the post season!

Come at me bro... I still mostly remember my ICQ number.

I will continue to dub thee with the highest level of Internet badassery, even if /u/nvrmor stands in the way.

Okay, sure.

- Source 20+ year IT veteran specializing in the private cloud computing areas of business continuity, disaster recovery, and cyber-threat resiliency.

People often think, "I have backup... I'm good."

How do you know if your backups aren't also compromised? Are you scanning for metadata changes in your archive? If your infrastructure was targeted, do you have a recovery plan for all your data center services? DNS/NTP/LDAP/SMTP/PKI/etc?

Do your business processes aligned to report and communicate internally (and possibly externally) in the event of a security breach? If you are compromised and recovering to an alternate restore target... do you have your VIPs configured to handle the new locale?

Do you have all your binaries for a site rebuild onsite in a vault and are all your runbooks current? Have you actually even tested restores?

Say you are recovering from backup and everything else is good? What is your throughput to get your data back on disk?

If your data is encrypted by a third party, what's the plan? If the data is already outside of the environment... what's the plan?

None of this is simple at scale.

It really isn't, especially when you are talking in the amounts of petabytes of backup data. Plus, so much of it depends on how you were compromised...

You should have an action plan, you should have backups, but saying it is 'simple' is pretty specific to the company. But you are an Internet badass, I get it.

Not prevent, reduce the likelihood of an event happening.

It isn't that simple. Often times to recover significant amounts of data takes time. A business has to weigh out the loss of revenue during the recovery window versus the cost of paying the ransomware payment.

Please don't feed the psypost trolls. They are not deserving of your clicks. Your confirmation bias is just feeding a soulless corporate machine.