"Perhaps most critically, the Library has completely reimagined its backup and recovery strategy around one central assumption: modern ransomware destroys, not just encrypts. Backups are now immutable, so they cannot be altered or deleted even by someone with administrator credentials. And they’re air-gapped – physically or logically isolated from production networks so attackers can’t reach them even if they gain extensive access."
https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/the-cyberattack-that-exposed-the-fragility-of-digital-heritage/
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