We got VERY lucky that day (and this happened about 3 weeks ago.) I am considering isolating our production PC's just incase. If we werent setup the way we were, or didnt notice it when we did. The kicker? the owner of the company asked me why people end up paying if it's so easy to get back up and running. And even then it was days of constantly monitoring to make sure we didnt miss something. then bring stuff back up and manually inspect it more. I had to cut everything off from the network so it didnt spread and manually check everyones PC's to figure out where it came from. I was doing everything that needed a physical pressence while our IT department was isolating the backups / ensuring our main servers that were infected with it but fighting it off didn't lose the battle. I got the alert from IT at 7 PM and I was in the office until 4 AM. So we only had 2 PC's that were demolished, and our server we just did a restore from a day before and it was backup instantly. But our server has protection and saw a ton of files starting to be encrypted and kept restoring the files from backup.
The sales reps PC was completely encrypted, then it hit the rip PC, then it it started to infect our server.
A sales rep PC got infected, It was a new varient that none of our software picked up. it did make me realize the CNC also has al its custom tool configs as well as saved "artboards".so now both of them are on our backup!
So it was just a bit of manual work getting it back up. Luckily I keep manual documentation of custom CMYK colors for clients as well as printed samples/proofs in a book. The malware of course made me realize All our profiles and custom samples and quicksets were a pain to get back. it was in hindsight, we figured all our files are backed up and fine, if anything else gets lost it's a quick image restore and we're back up. Our Rip station, and our CNC station, as well as peoples desktops dont get backed up beyond the Desktop/documents being stored on the server getting backed up. THEN I have a 100 TB server at home that I also backup the backups onto So all our important stuff is covered. our cloud backup never deletes older ones, so it's just a matter of finding a backup before the malware came onto the PC. So if something like ransomware gets through and deletes all our main backups and re-uploads the images to our cloud backup. which then gets duplicated to our cloud backup that has "unlimited" backups.
Our server and all our VM's are backed up and actively protected - VMS /servers have 6 months worth of backups - they get a full backup every week, with incremental backups everyday. We have everything backed up, for the most part. even if It cost us more to start from scratch. I'd rather start from scratch than pay a ransom. The Liberty Star’s crew is in great shape and ready to head home for KSC.Click to expand.Yeah. Tomorrow’s weather continues to look good overall. The weather forecast for later this week shows seas increasing to 4-6 feet. The tow of Pegasus is going quite well with Pegasus tracking behind us very well.Ĭurrent conditions are clear and sunny with cool temperatures and seas running at 2-3 feet. If we maintained this speed for a full day at sea we would cover about 230 miles. The transit of the Gulfport channel between Cat and West Ship Island went as well as possible and we are currently proceeding on our planned route to Kennedy Space Center at 9.3 knots or about 11 miles per hour. The day started with a mid-morning transfer of the Pegasus barge in the Port of Gulfport, an operation that went without any problems due to excellent service from the two tug boats, Angelica E and Emmett Eymard, that maintained the barge position ins pite of an easterly wind. The transfer of of the public affairs team went fine with the help of the local pilot boat and the Pegasus and Liberty Star hook up went extremely well, also without a hitch and we got underway in a very short period of time. to the Kennedy Space Center has gone extremely well.
The first day at sea on our return trip from Gulfport, Miss.