From the Fortress
Field notes on data resilience, ransomware recovery, and what actually works when the alert fires.
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AI Made You Worth Attacking. Anthropic Just Showed the Math.
On September 10, Anthropic published a 154-page report on threat actors it caught using its models for malicious activity between December 2025…
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How to Choose Small Business Cloud Backup in 2026
The right cloud file backup for a small business protects every place your files live, runs on its own every day, proves…
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How to Protect Business Data After Device Loss
Work in this order: contain access, confirm what was on the device, recover the data to a replacement, then fix the gap…
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You Own Veeam. Who Runs It at 2 A.M.?
Self-managed Veeam and managed Veeam BaaS run the same proven software, and the difference is who owns deployment, daily operations, recovery readiness,…
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7 Questions to Ask About NAS Cloud Backup in 2026
Ask seven questions: is the offsite copy immutable, can the NAS delete it, is it versioned backup or sync, how fast is…
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Is NAS Enough for Backup and Ransomware Protection?
No. A NAS is storage with redundancy, and backup is a separate job. It protects against a single drive failing and gives…
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Your Backups Are the Target, Not the Safety Net
Ransomware groups go after your backup repository before they go after your production data. Sophos’ State of Ransomware 2026 report puts a…
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61% of Companies Don’t Trust Their Backups to Actually Restore. They’re Right Not To.
Only 39% of UK businesses say they are fully confident they could recover their cloud data after a cyberattack. Backup adoption, meanwhile,…
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The 22-Second Window: What AI Has Done to the Ransomware Clock
In 2018, ransomware attackers spent an average of nine days inside a network before encrypting. That was enough time to detect, respond,…