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CompTIA Security+ study material · question 609 of 611

An organisation's backup server is domain-joined and reachable with production administrator credentials. Why does this defeat the backup's purpose?

  1. Domain-joined hosts cannot hold offsite copies
  2. Ransomware reaching those credentials can reach and encrypt the backups too
  3. Restore performance degrades on domain members
  4. Backups cannot be encrypted on a domain-joined host
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Answer: B. Ransomware reaching those credentials can reach and encrypt the backups too

A backup reachable from the production network with production credentials is reachable by whatever compromises that network.

Source: CISA #StopRansomware Guide (CISA) — CISA #StopRansomware Guide › Preparing for Ransomware

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