Ransomware has become a highly coordinated and pervasive threat, and traditional defenses are increasingly struggling to neutralize it. Today's ransomware attacks initially target your last line of defense — your backup infrastructure. Before locking up your production environment, cybercriminals go after your backups to cripple your ability to recover, increasing the odds of a ransom payout. Notably, these attacks are carefully engineered takedowns of your defenses. The threat actors disable backup agents, delete snapshots, modify retention policies, encrypt backup volumes (especially those that are network accessible) and exploit vulnerabilities in integrated backup platforms. They are no longer trying just to deny your access but erase the very means of recovery. If your backup environment isn't built with this evolving threat landscape in mind, it's at high risk of getting compromised. How can IT pros defend against this? In this guide, we'll uncover the weak strategies that leave backups exposed and explore actionable steps to harden both on-site and cloud-based backups against ransomware. Let's see how to build a resilient backup strategy, one that you can trust 100% even in the face of sophisticated ransomware attacks. Common pitfalls that leave backups exposed Inadequate separation and the lack of offsite or immutable copies are among the most common weaknesses in backup strategies. Snapshots or local backups alone aren't enough; if they reside in the same on-site…Read More