Ransomware Resilience Quiz

of ransomware attacks

target backup data*

When—not if—a breach happens, and your business, reputation, and career are on the line, backup storage with Absolute Immutability is your ultimate ransomware defense.

Answer these 10 questions to test your ransomware resilience knowledge and to spot the hidden gaps in your backup strategy.

*Source: Enterprise Strategy Group Research, Zero Trust and Ransomware Protection, April 2025.

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1. How should you check whether your backup data storage is immutable?

By vendor-provided uptime reports

By backup logs alone

Through internal IT documentation

Through independent third-party penetration testing

Question 2

2. Why is the separation of backup software and storage critical?

It reduces latency

It speeds up deduplication

It reduces the attack surface, and limits the blast radius of a breach

It enables virtualization

Question 3

3. How does a purpose-built backup appliance enhance data protection?

It eliminates risks associated with DIY and virtualized backup solutions

It automates network segmentation

It reduces CPU usage during restores

It enables snapshot scheduling

Question 4

4. What does ‘Zero Time to Immutability’ mean?

Data becomes immutable after a security scan

Immutability is applied once deduplication is complete

Users can manually enable immutability on demand

Backup data is immutable the moment it is written

Question 5

5. What is the ‘Eight Eyes Protocol’ in secure backup storage?

It requires approval from two customer reps and two vendor reps before executing sensitive actions

It uses eight layers of encryption to protect backup data

It automates backup scheduling across eight time zones

It applies deduplication before locking data immutably

Question 6

6. What is the key risk of immutability enforced only at the snapshot layer?

It increases storage costs

It reduces deduplication accuracy

Backup data may remain unprotected during ingest

Object storage integration becomes impossible

Question 7

7. Which of the following best describes “Zero Access to Destructive Actions”?

Backups are encrypted at rest only

No attacker or employee, even with admin privileges, can delete or alter stored backups

Only external users are blocked from modifying data

Immutable backups are stored in a separate cloud region

Question 8

8. Why is external penetration testing of immutable backup storage important?

It reduces the number of false positives

It verifies that immutability can’t be bypassed or disabled

It increases compatibility with hypervisors

It checks for deduplication errors

Question 9

9. Which of the following approaches ensures that ransomware cannot alter or delete backup data?

Using multi-region cloud sync

Encrypting backups post-process

Performing nightly manual restores

Enabling compliance mode with S3 object lock

Final question

10. What is one risk of using DIY storage setups for backups?

They require manual patching, updates, and monitoring to stay secure

They lack virtualization support

They’re difficult to configure with modern hypervisors

They can’t run instant recovery jobs

Your Result

0 to 30%

It’s likely that your backups are vulnerable to ransomware attacks.

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Your Result

31 to 60%

It looks like your backup storage may not be absolutely immutable so could be better protected against ransomware attacks.

Use these resources to learn how to close the gaps and ensure your organization becomes ransomware resilient.

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Your Result

61 to 90%

Solid effort, but there's still room to harden your defenses.

Sharpen your knowledge and learn how to make your backups ransomware-resilient.

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Your Result

91 to 100%

Well done! You clearly understand what makes backup storage absolutely immutable.

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