A new piece of ransomware got installed on a company’s backup server which encrypted the hard drives containing the OS and backup application configuration but did not affect the deduplication data hard drives. During the incident response, the company finds that all backup tapes for this server are also corrupt. Which of the following is the PRIMARY concern?

A new piece of ransomware got installed on a company’s backup server which encrypted the hard drives containing the OS and backup application configuration but did not affect the deduplication data hard drives. During the incident response, the company finds that all backup tapes for this server are also corrupt. Which of the following is the PRIMARY concern?
A . Determining how to install HIPS across all server platforms to prevent future incidents
B . Preventing the ransomware from re-infecting the server upon restore
C . Validating the integrity of the deduplicated data
D . Restoring the data will be difficult without the application configuration

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Answer: D