Which AV do you use?

Doshwaster

booneruk said:

Newcad said:

Does anyone still image to a local, disconnected, drive rather than the cloud?

Yes; anyone who wants to be sure that their backup security is under their own control.

Anyone who has seen claims of "totally secure" get hacked.

The cloud may be handy, and these days fast enough - but nothing beats knowing that you have a weekly/daily backup image sat on a disconnected drive that no ransomware etc. could possibly get to.

If backing up to the cloud then I'd suggest that you do it to at least two different places.

I have a two drive NAS which mirror each other, and a folder on there which is backed up to the cloud.

I wouldn't use any cloud provider claiming they are 'totally secure' though. Who are these providers? That would be complete fibbing, nothing's totally secure (including your local backup in case of a fire). 

Similar. NAS drive (2 x 4TB with mirroring) with a nightly backup to an external drive and the most important stuff synched to OneDrive where I have 1 TB 

Less important data such as DVD rips and ISOs I wouldn't be too bothered about losing if the house burnt down.

Documents and photos but not video are also synched to Google Drive as I only have 100 GB there and it's almost full up.

I don't bother imaging systems as in the event of a system failure I'd prefer to start again from a clean install.

Gillor

ChilliBob said:

...I mean, who uses BitTorrent and the like now etc? 

I do. That's one of the reasons why I use a layered security approach.But for "normal" web activity Windows Defender plus common sense is fine.

ChilliBob

Vitor said:

- I wonder if others use third party security for their mobile devices too.  - 

Subscribers to Microsoft 365 Family can drop Microsoft Defender and Family Safety apps onto mobis

I have 365  6 users of whatever, currently only used for me, so this is an interesting option I didn't know about. Fortunately my son's nearly 8, so I don't need to consider security for his devices yet (dreading that). Might look into for me and my wife thouguh, just out of interest 

ChilliBob

I like how this thread has evolved into a more open discussion, feels a bit like when I'd have a chat with my techy/info sec colleagues a good few years back. Great for bumping ideas around and everyone would gain. 

Newcad

Something else to consider, a different perspective:

If your backup(s) are on a local drive (or more than one) that you keep disconnected then it isn't using any power.

if it's in the cloud then it's sat on servers that are using energy 24/7, so that your data is available 24/7.

The amount of energy currently being used by cloud servers is concerning, with companies like M$, Google, and Amazon Web Services looking at buying and even building their own electricity generating stations for their server-farms.
The coming of AI is talked about a lot in that regard, but consider how much user data that used to be sat locally on (switched off) home and buisness computers only 10 or 15 years is now sat on cloud servers powered on 24/7/365 gobbling electricity and belching out excess heat.