Oldham council in Greater Manchester is spending £682,000 on a modern data protection service to defend against the 10,000 cyber attacks it faces daily. The council aims to protect financial information and personal details of thousands of customers. The Rubrik Air Gap system will be used to move all data and backup requirements to the new service, ensuring protection against loss and accidental deletion.
A Greater Manchester council is fighting off ‘10,000 attacks a day’ on its systems from cyber hackers, leaders have warned.
Currently the system in place means there is ‘no ability to protect the backup data against malicious damage’ or protect services held in the Cloud, officers said. Consequently the council has decided to procure a the Rubrik Air Gap system and move all of its data and backup requirements to the new service.
The leader of that local authority told a parliamentary committee earlier this year that the 2020 cyber attack cost them £7m, and caused a ‘catastrophic’ eight months of disruption. Ransomware is type of a malware that prevents access to devices and data, with a criminal group then demanding a ransom for decrypting the information.
“We’ve got all the known safety measures in place to protect our IT systems and hopefully that will continue. It will mean all the services can continue with delivering the services that our residents need. We hold lots of financial information, lots of personal information about many, many thousands of our customers and we take it extremely seriously.”
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