>work at one of the biggest Universities in the World
>we get a "virus"
>entire shared drive taken offline
>it'll be back tomorrow
>1 week later still nothing
Is this normal... I heard it is CryptoWall. Shouldn't any competent IT team be able to just roll back to a backup in less than a week?
Maybe they don't have a backup, and if that's the case, the IT team is fucked.
>>52511597
Looks like your uni will have to pay $10k to the Nigerian prince to get their data back,
>>52511597
Three possibilities:
A) backups are on a mounted drive of the infected system
result: fucked
B) backups are on tape/cold storage
result: longass time to implement backup
C) no backups
result: fucked
>>52511597
Biggest doesn't mean best. This doesn't happen at elite schools.
>>52511597
You should know that many universities hire internally from a pool of their own students to support their IT operations.
So, you generally have a bunch of CS/CE students managing day to day operations that don't know jack shit about networking, storage, or server administration.
I'm a consultant, so I have to clean up a lot of the messes these fucking idiots make.
Less than a week? Is a week literally 30 mins long?
>>52511799
>current year
>Not using localized SAN solutions and mirroring the data to Amazon.
>>52511597
ITT Tech isn't a university, faggot.
>>52511833
"Elite" schools are glorified Jewish fraternities complete with safe spaces anymore, so I'll stay happy at my small STEM school thanks
