Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

June 2021

Yuba County Survived a Ransomware Attack and Lived to Tell the Tale

The growing threat of ransomware attacks is ubiquitous, which has been further accelerated by the pandemic. In February of 2021, Yuba County was hit by ransomware that infected critical systems. Despite the attacker’s demands for ransom, the county was able to avoid paying the hefty fee and quickly recovered with Rubrik. Listen in on the fireside chat with Paul LaValley, CIO of Yuba County as he shares intimate details of how they survived the attack and lived to tell the tale.

Estée Lauder Uses Rubrik to Manage and Protect Global Data at Scale

Leading house of prestige beauty, Estée Lauder is a collection of over 25 globally renowned beauty brands, each with its own unique set of data and unique challenges. To protect all data at scale while keeping costs low, the beauty company embarked on a digital transformation journey – to break free from legacy data protection and mobilize to the cloud.

Fork is The Way - Let's Make it Hurt Less

The Linux/UNIX process model creates a new process by cloning the currently running one using the fork() system call. Subsequently, exec()—or one of its variants—loads a new program image into the newly cloned child process. There are a variety of issues that stem from using this approach in modern systems. There are also various widely used techniques and APIs aiming to alleviate the issues in different ways with different degrees of success and quirks.