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Backup security

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Backup security

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- [Instructor] There are lots of ways that we can add security to our backups. I remember one time a customer had a password that was not secure and they had Remote Desktop open to everyone, so they got hacked and all of their data got encrypted. But fortunately, even though I was unable to convince them to use a secure password, I was able to convince them to have backups that were not always attached to the device. So I just restored from the previous night's backup by plugging in the USB drive and everything was back up and running again. So it's very important to have additional security such as separate backups that aren't attached to your servers when you have a malware attack. But there's other ways that we can secure as well such as we can encrypt the contents ourselves of our data. So if our backup drives are ever stolen or the content's ever stolen, then they won't be able to use any of that data because we've…

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