When Traditional Backup is No Longer Enough: How to Stop Ransomware?
Today’s business world is a battlefield where cyber wars unfold daily. Traditional backup methods, once considered a reliable defense, are increasingly proving powerless against modern, sophisticated ransomware attacks. Attackers, acting with incredible speed and ingenuity, are able to penetrate even the most secure systems, encrypt critical data, and paralyze entire companies. Recovering from regular backups takes too long, and is often impossible if the backups themselves have been compromised. In these conditions, businesses need a fundamentally new approach to data protection.
Introducing InfiniSafe – not just another security product, but a fundamental, multi-layered approach to data protection that is integrated directly into the storage system architecture. It’s a solution that ensures business continuity, even in the face of the most devastating cyberattack. InfiniSafe is not just an addition to your existing solution, but an integral part of the Infinidat ecosystem, designed to provide maximum protection against modern cyber threats.
The Need for Cyber Resilience
In today’s digital landscape, where cyberattacks are becoming more frequent and complex, cybersecurity alone, focused on preventing attacks, is not enough. The focus needs to shift to cyber resilience – the ability of an organization to recover quickly and effectively from a successful cyberattack. Imagine a situation: attackers have bypassed all your defensive barriers and penetrated the system. What’s next? If you don’t have a reliable recovery plan, your company could suffer huge financial and reputational losses.
Cybersecurity vs. Cyber Resilience
- Cybersecurity: Focused on preventing attacks. Includes measures such as firewalls, antivirus software and intrusion detection systems.
- Cyber Resilience: Focused on the ability to quickly recover from a successful attack. Includes measures such as creating immutable snapshots of data, logical isolation, and automated recovery processes.
In an environment where preventing all attacks is impossible, having a reliable recovery plan becomes critical. This is where InfiniSafe comes into play, offering a radically new approach to data protection and ensuring business continuity.
Key Principles of InfiniSafe Technology
InfiniSafe is a comprehensive solution based on three key principles that provide an unparalleled level of protection against modern cyber threats: immutable snapshots, logical air gap, and automated cyber protection. Each of these components plays an important role in ensuring the overall reliability and effectiveness of the solution.
Immutable Snapshots
Immutable snapshots of data are the foundation of protection against ransomware. They are point-in-time copies of data that cannot be modified, encrypted, or deleted. Once a snapshot is created, it becomes inviolable, guaranteeing the ability to recover data even in the event of a successful attack.
Benefits of Immutable Snapshots:
- Protection against ransomware: Attackers cannot modify or delete immutable snapshots, which guarantees the ability to recover data.
- Fast Recovery: Recovering from immutable snapshots is much faster than from traditional backups.
- Reduced Risk: Reducing the likelihood of data loss as a result of a cyberattack.
Logical Air Gap
The concept of a logical air gap is to create a virtually isolated environment for storing immutable snapshots. Unlike a physical air gap, which requires the use of separate hardware and a long recovery time, a logical air gap provides fast and efficient data recovery.
Benefits of Logical Air Gap:
- Fast Recovery: Immutable snapshots are stored on the same hardware as the primary data, providing fast recovery.
- Reduced Costs: No need for additional hardware or infrastructure.
- Improved Security: Snapshots are inaccessible to attackers, even if they penetrate the main system.
Automated Cyber Protection
InfiniSafe uses a proactive approach to data protection, automatically creating snapshots when suspicious activity is detected. This allows you to quickly respond to potential threats and minimize damage from cyberattacks.
Benefits of Automated Cyber Protection:
- Rapid Threat Detection: The system automatically detects suspicious activity and creates immutable snapshots.
- Automatic Response: Snapshots are created automatically, allowing for rapid response to attacks.
- Improved Security: Proactive approach to data protection.
Rapid Recovery – Key to Reducing Losses
In the world of cybersecurity, time is money. Every minute of business downtime due to ransomware or other cyberattack can lead to huge financial losses, reputational damage and loss of customer confidence. InfiniSafe provides rapid recovery of huge amounts of data in minutes, not hours or days, allowing businesses to quickly return to normal operations and minimize damage.
Comparison with Traditional Recovery Methods
Traditional data recovery methods, such as restoring from backups on tapes or disks, can take a very long time. While InfiniSafe restores data in minutes, traditional methods can take hours or even days. This is because traditional methods require data to be transferred from backup media to primary storage systems, which is time consuming and resource intensive. InfiniSafe, on the other hand, uses a logical air gap and immutable snapshots, which are stored on the same storage system as the primary data, which significantly reduces recovery time.
Financial Consequences of Downtime
Business downtime has direct financial consequences. Lost sales, reduced employee productivity, penalties for non-compliance – these are just some of the factors that can lead to financial losses. InfiniSafe helps minimize downtime and therefore reduces the financial losses associated with cyberattacks.
Integration with the Infinidat Ecosystem
InfiniSafe is not a separate solution, but part of Infinidat’s overall strategy to ensure maximum data protection at all stages of the lifecycle. InfiniSafe works in close conjunction with InfiniBox and InfiniGuard, providing comprehensive protection against cyber threats.
InfiniBox
InfiniBox is the core data storage platform that delivers high performance, scalability, and reliability. InfiniSafe is integrated into InfiniBox, allowing you to create immutable snapshots of data and provide a logical air gap.
InfiniGuard
InfiniGuard is a data protection solution optimized for use with InfiniBox. InfiniSafe is integrated with InfiniGuard, allowing you to automate snapshot creation and data recovery processes.
Conclusion
In the face of a constantly growing cyber threat, InfiniSafe provides reliable protection, instant recovery and significant risk reduction for your business. Investing in InfiniSafe is an investment in business continuity and protection against unpredictable threats.
Learn how InfiniSafe can be the last line of defense for your business, providing unparalleled protection against ransomware and other cyber threats. Protect your data, ensure business continuity and sleep soundly knowing you are ready for any challenge. Don’t wait until it’s too late. Protect your business today with InfiniSafe!
Frequently Asked Questions on When Traditional Backup is No Longer Enough: How to Stop Ransomware?
Why is traditional backup insufficient for protection against ransomware?
Modern ransomware is capable of compromising backups, and restoring from traditional backups takes too long, leading to significant losses.
What is InfiniSafe, and how does it differ from regular security solutions?
InfiniSafe is a multi-layered approach to data protection integrated into the storage system architecture, unlike regular solutions, which are often just add-ons to the existing infrastructure. It ensures business continuity even during the most devastating cyberattacks.
What is the difference between cybersecurity and cyber resilience?
Cybersecurity focuses on preventing attacks, while cyber resilience focuses on the ability to quickly and effectively recover from a successful cyberattack.
What are the three key principles behind InfiniSafe technology?
Immutable snapshots, logical air gap, and automated cyber protection.
What are immutable snapshots, and how do they protect against ransomware?
Immutable snapshots are copies of data at a specific point in time that cannot be changed, encrypted, or deleted. This ensures the ability to restore data even in the event of a successful ransomware attack.
What is a logical air gap, and what benefits does it provide?
A logical air gap is a virtually isolated environment for storing immutable snapshots. It provides fast and efficient data recovery without the need for additional hardware.
How does automated cyber protection in InfiniSafe help detect and respond to threats?
InfiniSafe automatically creates data snapshots when suspicious activity is detected, allowing for a rapid response to potential threats and minimizing damage from cyberattacks.
How does InfiniSafe integrate with other Infinidat products?
InfiniSafe works in conjunction with InfiniBox and InfiniGuard, providing comprehensive protection against cyber threats at all stages of the data lifecycle. InfiniBox provides a storage platform for snapshots, and InfiniGuard automates snapshot creation and recovery.
