Ransomware remains one of the most damaging cyber threats facing Kenyan organisations in 2026. According to recent reports from the Kenya Computer Emergency Response Team, attack volumes have increased by over 40 percent compared to the same period last year, with healthcare, education, and government sectors bearing the brunt.
The good news is that most ransomware attacks can be survived without paying a ransom if your backup infrastructure is properly designed and tested.
The Problem with Traditional Backups
Many organisations still rely on backup methods that ransomware can easily defeat. If your backups are stored on the same network as your production systems, connected to the same Active Directory, or written to unprotected storage, attackers will find and encrypt them alongside everything else.
What a Resilient Backup Strategy Looks Like
A modern backup and disaster recovery strategy should include these key elements:
Air-Gapped or Immutable Backups
Solutions like Acronis Cyber Protect and Veeam offer immutable backup storage that cannot be modified or deleted, even by administrators with full system access. This ensures your recovery point remains clean regardless of what happens to your production environment.
The 3-2-1 Rule
Maintain at least three copies of your data, on two different types of storage, with one copy offsite. For Kenyan organisations, this might mean one local appliance copy, one cloud copy in a regional data centre, and one immutable archive.
Regular Recovery Testing
A backup that has never been tested is not a backup. We recommend quarterly full recovery tests and monthly partial restores to verify that your recovery time objectives can actually be met.
How Intellinks Can Help
Our team specialises in designing backup and disaster recovery solutions tailored to the specific needs and budget constraints of East African organisations. From Acronis Cyber Protect for physical servers to Veeam-based solutions for virtualised environments, we ensure your data remains recoverable no matter what.
Contact us to discuss a backup health check for your organisation.