A poor choice for offsite backup would be a NAS that is mapped as a drive in the operating system, even if it’s several hundred miles away geographically. Such a level of sophistication is something that I’m sure Acronis views as impossible and, to the best of my knowledge, is at least incredibly unlikely. We use Acronis and are relying on the ransomware not being somehow tailored to reach through the Acronis client to reach the Acronis backup servers.
#Filemaker pro for mac capacity software#
The key is that your offsite backup needs to be inaccessible to the ransomware software and that you are able to go back to a point in time before the ransomware infection. We just recently updated our offsite backup strategy to go back a little further in time, since some ransomware attacks intentionally delay themselves to give time for your backups to get infected. This means that you are depending on your offsite backup. If your server is the subject of a successful ransomware attack, it would be safe to assume that all your FileMaker files, including all normal FileMaker backups, are now encrypted and useless unless you pay the ransom. Generally speaking, anti-malware, anti-spam, and email filtering should also be considered to help limit phishing attacks, depending on your environment. If you don’t take that step as a matter of habit, you should certainly always be checking the domain shown in your address bar and making sure you see the SSL ‘lock’ icon in the address bar. In our discussions on the phishing threat, several of our team advocated for simply never clicking on a URL in an email and instead always going to your browser and navigating directly to the desired web page. So educating yourself and your users about phishing is the primary line of defense against such attacks. Your FileMaker server may not be as vulnerable as a general end-user computer, since you’re not likely to have personal email configured on a server, and servers are generally managed by more technically sophisticated users. Mass distribution phishing emails have gotten much more sophisticated. Spear phishing emails can be tailored to a particular individual and be difficult to detect. This area is probably the most difficult attack vector to deal with and also the one where firms are likely the most vulnerable. The WannaCry exploit from a couple of years ago affected many servers, even though Microsoft had already released a security patch. Servers should have current security patches installed in a timely manner.
You should only be able to use remote desktop via a VPN or IP restricted firewall. I imagine we almost all use remote desktop to manage servers and this can be a vector for ransomware hackers.
Some of the primary issues and potential mitigation strategies include the following:
#Filemaker pro for mac capacity professional#
This is really where you may want to do some of your own research and perhaps hire a professional if you consider the risks too great. The first of these two ransomware threats is more difficult to deal with and requires a multi-faceted approach to prevention. Not necessarily related to a ransomware attack, FileMaker also includes two other important security features you should be aware of: Authorized file access and Plugin access (which is new in version 19.2.1). If you have enabled Encryption At Rest (EAR) with your database files and have chosen a reasonably secure password, then hackers that have obtained physical access to your FileMaker data files will not be able to access your data. The second of these is the easier of the two from the FileMaker perspective. Pay us, or we’re going to show your data to the world. Pay us, or you’ll never see your data again. I think ransomware attacks can broadly be divided into two types of ‘blackmails’:
For starters, I’ll talk about prevention, and then go into recovery from a ransomware attack.