Ransomware is one of the biggest threats to the availability of business-critical data. The business model is running at full speed. But what makes ransomware so successful? How can companies protect themselves in general? And how should companies behave after an attack? We talked about this with Olav Seyfarth, IT security and data protection expert.
It is nearly impossible to prevent a ransomware attack on a local infrastructure. Even when using anti-virus protection, MFA, recognition algorithms, versioning, and snapshots, a substantial residual risk still remains. Only permanent data protection on a medium outside the local infrastructure can deliver a high security level - key word “media disruption”. This is precisely the principle which the iTernity Archive Protection follows.
After your data has been stored in iCAS, the objects are locally encrypted and then transferred to the iTernity Cloud.
In case of an attack on your infrastructure, the archive data in the cloud is not accessible to the ransomware. Data can be restored at any time and delivered to you on a physical storage medium.
The iTernity Archive Protection service enables you to protect your archive data effectively, easily, and at low costs against the increasing threats of ransomware attacks.
Your archive data gets locally encrypted.
Archive data is uploaded via https to the iTernity Cloud.
The archive data in the cloud is inaccessible to ransomware (media disruption).
In case of a ransomware attack on your local infrastructure: contact the iTernity Support.
Your archive data will be restored from the iTernity Cloud. Only you are able to decrypt the data with your private key.
Would you like to learn more about our solutions and the benefits of Software-Defined Archiving? Take a free online demo and tell us about your challenges in long-term data storage.
