Read how professional ransomware attack technologies are evolving and how you can protect your backups in the long-term.
Ransomware is one of the biggest IT threats for companies, hospitals, and public institutions. The attacks are increasingly targeting an organization's last line of defense – the backup.
The latest cases show that advanced ransomware is able to work its way through to the backup in order to compromise or delete the data. In case of an attack, data is encrypted and backup copies are made unusable. The consequences for organizations include data loss, business process disruption, loss of revenue, and ransom demands. Today, it is essential to implement an immutable backup storage which reliably protects your data against ransomware attacks.
With a backup, you are protected against data loss and ransomware – right? Unfortunately, cybercriminals also know that backups are the last line of defense... and they strike exactly there. Protect your backups with iCAS FS and gain additional efficiency, simplicity and flexibility in data storage.
Ransomware has become one of the most lucrative criminal businesses. As the attacks are becoming increasingly professional, it is essential to implement an immutable backup storage which protects your data against attacks.
This backup guide shows you: why ransomware is the #1 threat for companies, hospitals, and public institutions worldwide; what challenges the attacks pose; and how you can reliably protect your backups against cyber-attacks.
Data immutability ensures that data cannot be modified or deleted within a specific retention period. Thus, encryption by ransomware attacks is reliably prevented and a clean copy of your data can be restored.
One method to ensure this is the WORM principle (Write Once Read Many). WORM is a data protection method in which data is written immutably to a storage medium. The files cannot be changed or deleted afterwards by the users. However, they can be read as often as required.
Ransomware can no longer encrypt your data.
Employees can inadvertently become the entrance gate for ransomware. Not without reason are phishing e-mails still one of the most frequently used methods of infecting endpoints with ransomware.
The attack surface can be minimized by using external service providers who are subject to strict monitoring. Backups are administered by an external provider and only this provider has access to your backup system. Thus, errors by administrators or IT managers in the company can be avoided and the danger of social engineering can be minimized.
As the IT attack surface is minimized, it is impossible for ransomware to impact the integrity and availability of the system.
A single backup copy is not sufficient.
If there are multiple copies in different locations, it is much less likely that all backup copies will be lost, corrupted, or encrypted by ransomware at the same time. It is important in this strategy that at least two storage targets are also physically separated from each other – to protect you in the event of a fire or natural disaster, for example.
A backup solution that can replicate over long distances (WAN copy) simplifies this task and additionally protects your backups from physical damage.
The scale-out platform iCAS FS is the perfect backup target for virtualized IT environments (e.g. Veeam, Commvault, ...). It provides ransomware protection based on data immutability features - at low TCO, with unlimited scalability, and with great ease of use.
iCAS FS is an auto-managed storage platform. The entire set-up is monitored by iTernity, errors are detected by the system itself and automatically fixed. iCAS FS requires no training and no workload for your IT, so professionals can focus on their core competencies. In addition, storage capacity can be expanded easily, flexibly and cost-effectively.
The choice of backup software and storage infrastructure is crucial in the fight against data loss and ransomware. With Veeam & iTernity you can make your data protection fit for the future and reduce complexity, costs and effort.
iCAS FS is a "Veeam Ready"-qualified scale-out storage platform, which can be used as "Immutable Object Repository" and "Linux Repository". Thanks to S3 Object Lock and a closed system, iCAS FS minimizes the IT attack surface and protects your backups, archive data and more. Protect your Veeam backups in a simple and efficient way with iCAS FS!
iTernity provides an S3-compatible object storage for Commvault as a backup target. iCAS FS is a reliable, scalable and flexible storage platform for mission-critical data and has been tested and qualified to work smoothly with Commvault. Commvault enables organizations to proactively simplify and shape the complexity of their ever-evolving and growing data environments. Secure your Commvault backups with iCAS FS - protected against ransomware, cost-efficient and without effort!
