The Backup Wrap-up
The Backup Wrap-up podcast turns unappreciated backup admins into cyber recovery heroes. After a brief analysis of backup-related news, each episode dives deep into one topic that you can use to better protect your organization from data loss, be it from accidents, disasters, or ransomware.
Recent Episodes
April 27, 2026
Stop Using VSS as a Backup Before Ransomware Deletes Your Shadow Copies
Stop Using VSS as a Backup Before Ransomware Deletes Your Shadow Copies Ransomware deletes shadow copies using your own built-in Windows tools against you — and if VSS was your backup plan, you just found out the hard way tha...
April 20, 2026
Ransomware Sanctions, OFAC, and the Lazarus Group: A Real Case Study
Ransomware sanctions are something most companies never think about — until they're staring down a ransom demand from a group the US government has already put on a sanctions list. In this episode, Dr. Mike Saylor walks us th...
April 13, 2026
The Real Cost of a Ransomware Attack: The Ransom Is the Least of Your Problems
The cost of a ransomware attack goes way beyond the ransom itself — and most organizations don't find that out until it's too late. In this episode of The Backup Wrap-up, W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and co-host Prasanna Ma...
April 6, 2026
How Polymorphic Malware Evades Detection — And What to Do About It
Polymorphic malware is the kind of threat that changes its own code — its signature, its behavior, even the command-and-control server it reports to — specifically so your antivirus can't catch it. In this episode, Dr. Mike S...
March 26, 2026
Emergency Episode: The PyPI Software Supply Chain Attack You Need to Know About
A PyPI software supply chain attack hit LiteLLM — a library pulled into developer environments 97 million times a month — and if you use it, you may already be compromised. This wasn't a fake package or a typo-squatting trick...
March 23, 2026
Fileless Malware: The Attack That Lives in Memory
Fileless malware is one of the most dangerous attack types out there — it never writes to your hard drive, lives entirely in RAM, and can steal your credentials before your antivirus has any idea it's there. In this episode, ...
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