Anti-Ransomware Data Protection

Ransomware is the scourge of every business globally, no matter the size.

Attackers develop new methods to make ransomware more effective.

Its time that organisations take the same approach to continually protect their data and ensure the time to regain operations can be substantially maximised.

Challenge - Once an organisations security layers have been evaded by the malware used to perform a ransomware attack, they play no further part in protecting the organisation. Every organisation then puts the safety and ongoing capability of its business in the hands of backup & recovery tools.

These tools were never meant for Cyber! They were built for traditional DR/BC processes. Backup tools cannot protect from the initial data compromise. The old 3-2-1 strategy is obsolete for cyber incidents, as anything not on immutable/cover copy or tape can and will be compromised, making them useless for recovery purposes.

Data is backed up during specific windows to minimise disruption to operations. Recovering data during a ransomware attack is challenged with lack of network channels, bandwidth and data copy locations. It can take 2 hours or more to recover 1TB of data following an attack, not fogetting you should always clean the device OS to ensure it had no lingering malware.

Real Time Data Resilience - The capability to protect your active data and any other data copies and system data in real time has existed for over a decade.

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Data Security Posture

Data resilience requires every organisation to know what data exists in their entire operation. How can any organisation claim to manage and secure data if they only have visibility of data in databases. Unstructured data is uncontrollable and makes up over 80% of every business operations, and needs to be visible and traceable 24/7/265.

Challenge - No longer are Data Loss Prevention technologies delivering consistent data protection. These tools work on the basis of 'hope'.

Their policies are built around the chance that certain data may attempt to be shared without authorisation.

Businesses must know the details and characteristics of data, delivering your business data risk profile, and monitor its use data before building any data lifecycle policies that align to governance, regulation and compliance  requirements.

Real Time Data Posture  - Historical data characteristics is good for reports, but audits and responding to cyber events need the data in real time.

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