Premissions and CryptoLocker

The Genie product says it can do FTP/FTPS backup but their support folks are unclear on permissions. I am unfamiliar with FTP transfer except to observe that it works and we often use it for Web Publishing using a FTP Client program. Does the destination folder inherit the same permissions or alternatively can I issue some type of FTP command to remove permissions in the destination directories? That said we can test the results to get the details.

I have just finished a call with the Advanced Support folks at Netgear -- very friendly and helpful. They discussed a feature in their newer ReadyNAS products that allow a destination share to not inherit the permissions of the source folder. They assure me that this will work for backup processes in the ReadyNAS. Using this approach, the backup can occur to a hidden (not drive mapped) area and all of the content can be established as read only. Restoration might be an issue because of the read only status but at least the data is protected from CyberLocker.

Of passing interest is the fact that the support fellow said that CyberLocker related issues are now their #1 problem reported by the client base -- "it is really big right now".