The new year not only brought uncertainty from the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, but it also unleashed the malicious nature of the morally deficient who preyed upon the vulnerable and disadvantaged. Colonial Pipeline made news after a ransomware attack demanding $4.4 million in May earlier this year caused the company to shut down operations, causing delivery disruptions of millions of gallons of fuel throughout the southeast. Colonial Pipeline paid the ransom to get their operations back up — but did they have to?

TSCID’s own LMI Systems, Inc. came under attack in early January 2021 with a demand for $4.1 million — not only did they NOT pay it, but LMI recovered all of their data and systems within 12 hours with no disruption to business operations. How did they do it?

LMI’s Disaster Recovery Plan details step-by-step documentation for incident recovery protocols, which includes Backup Protection Documentation and Business Continuality Documentation. Their system’s backup plan encompasses five levels of recovery and the team was able to stop the attack at level three, remove the threat, then started reloading their server environment.

LMI is able to help companies with preventive measures to stave off potential attacks and recover data once a breach has occurred. Never pay ransom again!

Learn more about LMI’s step-by-step process in defeating their ransomware attack in their blog.