Prospect Medical Holdings suffered a large-scale ransomware attack, leading to them having to revert to paper systems while the FBI investigates who’s responsible. While the attack is being investigated, Prospect Medical Holdings, who operate 16 hospitals across the US have consequently had to shut down their systems, causing great disruption amongst people in need of urgent medical care.

With customer data being so important, it’s vital we do our best to ensure it is correctly protected. Backup Systems is ISO27001 accredited, meaning we as a business have put in place the correct system measures to prevent risks related to data security that we manage. This system meets the requirements put in place by the International Standard, giving our customers reassurance they can trust us with their data.

Microsoft Azure & AWS storage accounts enable you to have a safe, offsite copy of your data for a reduced cost. Being able to support this platform, means we can work with hot or cold storage tiers, whichever suits your business needs. With cold storage, this offers an archived backup solution in the cloud, ensuring you have a backup copy at the ready in case of a disaster recovery incident.

We recently visited another one of our friends and clients, this time making the trip to Inverness to visit Gael Force, who specialise in marine equipment.

As a requirement, cyber insurance companies are demanding that their customers have an ‘Air Gap’ backup, this can be in addition to already onsite and offsite backup copies, to ensure maximum protection. The air gap means that the backups are not accessible or on the company network. So, ransomware can’t get to them.

Backup Systems would like to announce the appointment of Peter Mills as Operations Director.
Peter brings a wealth of experience of MSPs to build our MSP proposition.