Defending Digital Fortresses: How Greater Manchester Fends off 10,000 Daily Cyber Assaults

Cyber hackers are targeting the council’s systems at a rate of ‘10,000 a day’, leading to threats to its software and systems by higher-ups. It has been agreed by councillors in Oldham that they will spend £682,000 on acquiring a ‘modern data protection service’ which will ensure the privacy of financial information as well as the personal information of thousands of citizens, in order to protect the data they are responsible for guarding. 

According to officers, at the moment, because of the current system in place the backup data is not protected against malicious damage or the cloud-based services are not protected from malicious intrusion. In light of this, the council has decided that it is necessary to move all of its data and backup requirements over to the Rubrik Air Gap system and to utilize it for its data recovery and backup. 

As stated in the report to the cabinet, the purpose of the decision was to ensure that both services and data will be protected against loss, which is essential in both disaster recovery scenarios as well as against accidental deletion, corruption, or other errors that could lead to information loss. 

According to the survey, three-fourths of councils (75 per cent) stated that they have been targeted by phishing attacks as this is the most common type of cyberattack against them, with the majority stating that it was the most common form of at

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