Bio

Martín is an Argentinian living in Spain. He has worked as a Postgres Support Engineer and DBA for over 25 years in both the public and private sectors. He led the support efforts at 2ndQuadrant in the Americas region for many years until being acquired by EDB. He is now working on a leadership role in development engineering at EDB, mainly on Backups, HA, and development tools for Postgres. He’s also passionate about training, knowledge gain, and open source.

He likes cooking and having an occasional craft beer. He also takes a few shots of espresso a day.

Talk Description: Ransomware encrypted my first title; this is my backup title.

Ransomware attack breaches are one of the main concerns that big entities in the financial and healthcare businesses have. Originally, the attack went against the data, but now the attackers also target the backups to prevent any kind of recovery and force the victim to pay the ransom. This talk will be about work we have done in Barman to make it work on infrastructure built to prevent ransomware attacks. We’ll go over cloud and on-prem architectures that were brought to us and which implementations we provided to make Barman work in each case. But not all is done! (Or maybe it is?) So, we will also mention cases we haven’t addressed yet and how we plan to deliver such solutions.