Data Protection & Cybersecurity
The NextCry strain of ransomware has made the headlines for infiltrating some improperly configured NextCloud servers, leaving many organizations asking, “Is NextCloud still secure to store my critical data?” The answer to that question is unequivocally, “yes.”
Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) is a specification for disk encryption across Linux distributions. It relies on dm-crypt, a kernel module that uses the passphrase selected by the user to encrypt and decrypt data on-the-fly on a LUKS volume, and make the filesystem mountable from a virtual device-mapper block device. The cryptsetup utility is used to create and manage LUKS volumes.