Facing ransomware risk, a city plans backups for tax and utility billing systems. Which storage strategy is most thoughtful?
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Short Explanation
If every spare key hangs on the same hook the burglar already found, you are not backed up. Mix onsite, offsite, and cloud copies with isolation so ransomware cannot eat them all. One online twin of production is a hope, not a strategy.
Full Explanation
Backup storage strategies against ransomware combine diverse locations—onsite, offsite, and cloud—with isolation, immutability, or offline characteristics so compromise of production does not destroy every recovery copy. A single always-online domain-joined share is a common failure mode. Cost-driven elimination of backups removes the primary recovery control for destructive malware.