Remediation is possible without opening your Bitcoin purse by using comprehensive backup and recovery software. Please see my other blog about best practices to protect your backup server. With the Arcserve UDP, you are uniquely positioned to get your systems back in the way they were before the attack, or to selectively bring back the data you need and bypass that boot locking mechanism for example. What about creating a “QA” environment to test the recovery? Keeping an offline copy of all your backups is easily done through UDP’s Jumpstart capability, or by making tape copies of your data store. Recover physical or virtual systems to dissimilar hardware or another VM – it’s piece of cake with our solution.