A company with its own private data center has called you in for help with their disaster recovery planning. News of multiple ransomware attacks has made them very anxious. They want to make they…

Question

Options

• AIt is better to have redundancy; so, set up another private data center nearby so that you can
• BIt is better to have redundancy; use one or many of the Google Cloud datacenters as a backup
• CThe one data center is enough, as long as the data is encrypted; attackers won't be able to read
• DThe one data center is enough as long as you regularly back up data and save it in another place

• A
  7% (3)
• B
  89% (39)
• C
  2% (1)
• D
  2% (1)

Explanation

Using Google Cloud as an offsite backup/recovery location is the best recommendation for ransomware resilience. Ransomware typically spreads laterally across a network, so a geographically and logically separate cloud environment that is not directly connected to the on-premises network provides a clean, uninfected recovery point. Option A (a nearby private data center) is weak because it likely shares the same network or administrative access - ransomware can spread to it too. Option C is incorrect because encryption does not prevent ransomware from encrypting your data with its own keys. Option D (backing up data 'in another place') is incomplete without specifying that the backup destination is isolated and immutable - on-premises backups connected to the same network are still vulnerable.

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