- You might as well say that at the board meeting! Does that mean it's my fault

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Security Tales: Backup
Vladimir Bezmaly | 09.08.2017
- Max, we lost our data stored in the cloud of company C. What happened?

— Did you call them?

- Yes!

- And what do they say?

— That they have force majeure circumstances and they are trying to restore their storage facilities themselves.

— ??? What are we paying them money for?

— Boss, is this a question for me? I've been saying for a long time that you can't store data only in the cloud. Look at my reports for the last six months. You yourself told me that the company has a worldwide reputation and we have no reason to doubt them. And it's cheaper this way! And we don't have the money. Well, now we're paying.


- Who? Me? It won't work! You should at least listen to an expert sometimes!

— Find out, in short, what happened to them and when we will be able to access the backup copies.

Two hours passed.

- Well, what? Did you find out?

— Found out... Bad news. Their engineers made changes to the object storage configuration, which resulted in some data being deleted. The problem has already been fixed.

- So, did we get access to our data?

- Unfortunately, no. The problem only affected the data saudi arabia whatsapp data by users. So we lost everything! And most likely the equipment will have to be reconfigured. Congratulations on that.

Cisco did not specify the number of customers affected by the incident. According to information on the official website, the Cisco Meraki service is used by more than 140 thousand customers and 2 million network devices. Thus, it is worth considering that cloud backups are great, but you still need to have local ones, outside the organization's perimeter.