# Reflectが日本語で利用可能になりました

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私たちは翻訳小屋で非常に忙しくしており、Reflectが完全に日本語に翻訳されたことをお知らせできることをうれしく思います。これは、Reflect8の既存のすべての購入者が利用できます。

[アップグレードオプションが利用可能です](/upgrade-renewal-wizard)

私たちは日本のお客様に全力で取り組んでおり、まもなく地元のパートナーを発表する予定です。

[詳しくはお問い合わせください](/contact "Contact Us")

既存のお客様の場合、言語を変更する方法は次のとおりです

[https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW80/Defaults+and+Settings](https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW80/Defaults+and+Settings "Macrium KB")

## Macrium Reflect is Now Available in Japanese

Our translators have been very busy and we're delighted to announce that Reflect is now fully translated into Japanese. It is available for all existing purchasers of Reflect 8.

[Upgrade options are available](/upgrade-renewal-wizard)

We are fully committed to our Japanese customers and will be announcing a local partner soon.

[Please contact us for more information](/contact "Contact Us")

For existing customers, here is how you change language [https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW80/Defaults+and+Settings](https://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW80/Defaults+and+Settings "Macrium KB")

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We're delighted to announce that Macrium Reflect is available in Japanese for all existing purchasers of version 8.

Macrium Reflect is Now Available in Japanese  |  Macrium

Macrium Reflect is Now Available in Japanese

# Backups and the Big Screen — when backups saved the day!

Here in the Northern Hemisphere, we’re fully in the swing of the summer vacation season. And when Mother Nature doesn’t cooperate, what better way to relax with friends and family than around a good film? You’d be surprised to know what a big role backups play in Hollywood, on and off the screen. For example, did you know that [Toy Story 2](https://thenextweb.com/news/how-pixars-toy-story-2-was-deleted-twice-once-by-technology-and-again-for-its-own-good "The Next Web: Toy Story 2") almost didn’t exist because of poor backup practices?

_“That’s when we first noticed it, with Woody.”_

Back in 1998, the movie studio Pixar was just making a name for itself. They’d released their first feature-length film, Toy Story, and were hard at work creating the sequel. On one fateful day, they noticed a few of the files had gone missing. After refreshing the folder, more files were gone. Files vital to the animations of Woody, Buzz and the rest of the gang were disappearing right in front of their eyes!

Someone on the team, somewhere, had inadvertently run a command at the root level of the production. Like a fast moving fire, it cascaded through the system, recursively traveling through the directory and deleting everything in its path. By the time they shut down the main servers to stop it in its tracks, 90% of the film was gone.

With the initial panic over, they set to restoring to their last backup. The problem was, while they did have a backup system in place, they weren’t regularly checking it to make sure everything was running correctly. They’d maxed out their storage (which at the time was only 4 gigabytes), and while their backup system was technically running perfectly, each new backup would bump the older content off the drive. After a week of trying to recover the full film, and encountering a host of errors and missing files, they realized they couldn’t have any confidence in their backup.

This could’ve been the tragic end to the Toy Story franchise, but by sheer chance, the Supervising Technical Director had been working from home following the birth of her son. Her home computer was unaffected by the issues in the office network, leaving a complete version of the film, albeit a few weeks behind. After a tense transit of her computer to the office, they managed to verify most of the files, leaving a mere 30,000 to comb through by hand over the course of a weekend.

If Pixar had maintained proper backup protocols this near-disaster could’ve been avoided. What amounted to weeks of lost productivity, 72 hours of eye-blurring recovery, not to mention the extreme stress of the loss, should’ve been a quick and easy restoration.

This is a great real-world example of how even the biggest and most well known companies fall victim to data loss and corruption.

## What about on screen?

The presence or lack of backup files plays a role in a number of TV shows and movies. This is a mostly spoiler-free zone, but I can’t promise I won’t give something important away.

### Altered Carbon

Characters in this futuristic cyberpunk TV show live in a world where consciousness can be transferred from one body to the next. The wealthiest members of society have the money to maintain several copies of their personality, thus becoming “immortal”. Much of Season 1 revolves around what are essentially off-site backups!

### Tron: Legacy

CLU has taken over the computer-world of the Grid, destroyed all the ISOs (“isomorphic algorithms”) except for one, and is now building an army to escape from the Grid and take over the real world. All of these problems could be fixed just by restoring the Grid from the last known good backup.

### Terminator 2

Sarah Connor, John and the T-800 set out to destroy Cyberdyne headquarters, with the specific goal to destroy all the research about how to build Terminators. If Cyberdyne had kept off-site backups, their mission would’ve been nearly impossible, and a solid win for the robots. In this case, humanity is lucky Cyberdyne has poor backup processes.

**Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of sci-fi and tech-heavy stories here, but if you can think of any more, please let us know!**

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You’d be surprised to know what a big role backups play in Hollywood, on and off the screen. For example, did you know that Toy Story 2 almost didn’t exist because of poor backup practices?

Backups and the Big Screen

Backups and the Big Screen — when backups saved the day!

# Evolving Cybersecurity — Q&A

I sat down with Macrium’s Technical Director, John Pendleton, to discuss how the landscape of cybersecurity is changing — and how it probably always should!

### Why have the lines between security, backup and storage blurred in the past few years?

The profitability of data ransom and data theft are proving to be huge. This is driving an increasing trend for multilayered and highly sophisticated attacks.

To counter this, system protection must cover all components and their interfaces, lines must be blurred otherwise you remain exposed; a single vulnerability can be used to gain a foothold to launch the next step in an attack.

A further blurring of the traditional considerations is that software now exists within every network and computer component. This software, typically called firmware, provides further opportunities for exploit.

### Are backups more vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks like ransomware now than a few years ago?

A backup nullifies the leverage of a traditional ransomware attacker, as data can be quickly recovered without paying the ransom. This has driven the evolution of ransomware to also target and encrypt backup files, hence the increased vulnerability.

However, data security has two core facets, protection against loss (either accidental, hardware failure or by evil intent) and protection against theft. The threat is shifting to data theft, particularly for high value targets. In this case, backups provide no protection.

Despite this trend, backups still provide vital protection against SME or personal data where the inherent value of data recovery is greater to the owner than avoidance of public disclosure.

Note that SMEs that hold sensitive data (health, financial, legal etc) are very much exposed to a public disclosure risk, even if it isn’t currently under active exploit. Now that privacy legislation, particularly GDPR, is finding its teeth, that risk will extend to all companies with a significant customer base.

### In what ways do modern backup and storage solutions address cyber security today? What are some of the ways they can help detect threats, including both active ransomware and ransomware that hasn’t yet been activated?

General AV / IDS techniques are very applicable in this space. This is a mature field, and much has been already written.

However there are a few backup specific protection techniques. Our anti-ransomware solution, Macrium Image Guardian, only protects against unexpected backup set access. This is less vulnerable to both false positives and negatives and less resource intensive than generic anti-malware techniques, but cannot provide alerts for non-activated ransomware. There are other vendor solutions such as storing backup sets outside a traditional filesystem.

No software based protection can protect against a physical access attack or a compromised operating system and it is easy to underestimate the effort required to keep a determined attacker out. The old adage of defense in depth is still very relevant however and will generally keep your data safe.

### What features should a company look for in a backup solution when it comes to cybersecurity?

Feature wise, a basic but key feature is encryption of backups, given the rise of data theft, this is self-evidently important.

Good backup practice includes keeping the data in more than one location. I would be looking for flexibility here, you don’t want to be restricted to the vendor’s choice of cloud storage.

Backup set specific protection is important. You want to ensure that they are protected against malware encryption (or deletion) before they have been synchronized to a trusted remote location. You can rely on the operating system file security mechanisms. However these can be easy to mis-configure so you may want to look for an additional layer of backup set protection. This can be a focused solution that only protects backup sets, or more generalized anti malware protection.

However, non-feature based considerations are of at least equal importance. Backup software necessarily reaches deep into the Windows storage subsystems; if coded without care, it can itself be used as a malware vector itself, or stepping stone for a system compromise. Look for vendors with a reputation for reliability as this a good proxy also for secure development practices. A published vulnerability reporting process and a track record of quickly responding to bug reports is also a good sign.

If the software is to operate close to, or within operational or other critical environments, check if it will operate without any internet connectivity as this will significantly reduce the attack surface.

A novel and quickly evolving risk to add to the list of concerns is the supply chain attack. This puts a spotlight on the security of the vendor build, release and patch process. Unfortunately, the IT industry is still learning how to address this. We are currently looking at various options including a software bill of materials and reproducible builds hosted in escrow by a mutually trusted 3rd party. There is much to learn from the open source community.

### Other than backup software itself, how can organizations protect their backup systems from attack?

Maintain a synched copy of your (encrypted) backup sets, segregated from your main network. Aside from that, following standard security best practices is key.

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I sat down with Macrium’s Technical Director, John Pendleton, to discuss how the landscape of cybersecurity is changing — and how it probably always should!

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