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The traditional 3-2-1 backup strategy was designed to solve for hardware failure; the 3-2-1-1-0 rule is engineered to solve for adversarial intent. In a landscape where 94% of ransomware attacks now specifically target the backup server, a “copy” is no longer a recovery asset unless it is cryptographically or physically isolated from the production plane….
When you migrate to Azure SQL Managed Instance (MI) or Azure SQL Database, one of the biggest sighs of relief is handing backup management over to Microsoft. Out of the box, Azure provides excellent operational recovery capabilities. You get automatic full, differential, and transaction log backups. You get Point-in-Time Restore (PITR). You get geo-redundancy to…
In 2020, the advice was “have good backups.” In 2025, that advice is dangerously incomplete. Today, backup infrastructure is not the remediation; it is the primary target. Modern ransomware cartels know that if they encrypt your production data, you will restore. But if they delete your backups first, you will pay. Attackers now spend weeks…
