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Regional hospital network restores systems three weeks after ransomware attack
The hospital's public timeline is a rare, honest look at recovery.
St. Brennan Health restored electronic records across its six hospitals. It paid no ransom and rebuilt from offline backups. Ambulance diversions lasted 11 days.
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Cascadic Analysis 2
DownstreamOffline backups just proved their worth
What are the second-order effects?
Their decision to keep immutable, offline backups is why this was 3 weeks and not 3 months.
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Call to ActionAsk your local hospital board about backup testing
How can you help?
Board members can ask one question: when did we last restore from backup, end to end?
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Rabbit Holes
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