With this expanded availability, customers are now better able to seamlessly address growing business concerns around cost, scalability, and security as they protect critical data.

Remediation will not be simple — it will effectively require backing up data, re-imaging the Exchange server, scrubbing the backup of any accounts which should not be present, resetting all passwords and secrets and restoring the remaining backup data.

Between collaborating cybercriminals, the upwards trajectory of data growth and the distributed workforce, the risk factor for every business is accelerating. This is one reason why we expect to see most businesses increase their general IT spending by around 5-10% in the New Year, despite the economic impact of the pandemic.

NEW Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure provides organizations with increased confidence in moving more applications and data to the cloud knowing that the same Veeam platform they use and trust for their on-premises environment now seamlessly extends to Azure.

Having offsite and offline backups and robust disaster recovery capabilities can help businesses restore data that has been encrypted by attackers. However, the risks and possibilities of ransomware are varied. So, businesses need a plan for prevention and ensure their backup data cannot be used against them.