Last year, a notable survey conducted by The Register / Blocks & Files among major corporations revealed that about 56% of businesses employing 10,000 or more people have integrated enterprise storage solutions into their comprehensive cybersecurity strategy, while another 20% are planning its integration. This shift is highly significant as it shows the enterprise market is increasingly adopting a cyber-focused, recovery-first methodology aimed at lessening the impacts of cyber threats, including ransomware and malware.
The ability to rapidly restore business-essential and mission-critical data following a cyberattack is absolutely vital for any company. To make this possible, enterprises require the single most crucial element to make a real difference – cyber storage resilience. Through the fundamental components of next-generation data protection, cyber storage resilience and recovery capabilities empower enterprises to recover from cyberattacks with minimal damage.
As noted in The Register / Blocks & Files report, “Protecting vital data and applications from ever-present threats is an ongoing challenge for every organization, and orchestrating and verifying a swift recovery after any incident is equally critical to any effective cybersecurity defense.”
Defining “Fast” Recovery Speed
Quick recovery from a cyberattack on IT infrastructure is a top priority, with targets often set between minutes to hours. According to the The Register / Blocks & Files survey, over 30% of respondents reported a recovery time objective of “under one hour” or even “under 30 minutes.” Another 30% indicated their target is “between 1 and 12 hours,” and most of the rest aim for “under 24 hours.”
For today’s astute CIOs and CISOs, there is a pressing need for a cyber recovery guarantee that meets the recovery demands of global enterprises. Infinidat offers a cyber recovery guarantee of one minute or less for its InfiniBox® and InfiniBox™ SSA platforms, irrespective of dataset size. To put it in perspective, you can recover tens of petabytes of data after a ransomware incident faster than getting a coffee from a bustling drive-through – that’s truly fast!
Data recovery must be extremely rapid. Given the slow speed of enterprise operations, taking days to restore data isn’t sufficient for modern business needs and keeps pace with computing speeds. However, with the correct cyber storage resilience integrated into your storage infrastructure, you can retrieve all your data in mere minutes or even seconds.
The cornerstone of such accelerated recovery is cyber storage resilience, which is driven by sophisticated next-generation data protection capabilities. This new era of data protection was developed to defend against today’s most advanced and damaging cyberattacks, incorporating preemptive and predictive features to help reduce the effects of large-scale cyber incidents.
Understanding Next-Generation Data Protection
Next-generation data protection encompasses traditional data protection aspects like managing backup repositories as well as data snapshotting and replication. Furthermore, it extends to include cyber storage resilience and ultra-rapid cyber recovery.
This advanced data protection adopts a cyber-focused, recovery-first approach, emphasizing the importance of true data immutability. Immutable data copies are essential for secure analysis after a cyberattack. True immutability is a foundational element of next-gen data protection, making it crucial to recovery because the data cannot be altered or tampered with in any way—there are no “backdoors.”
To ensure data protection remains highly effective for critical datasets today, it must be deeply integrated and orchestrated. A manual process introduces a vulnerability that could compromise your enterprise. To solve this, a major advancement in next-generation data protection is automated cyber protection.
Automated cyber protection seamlessly embeds cyber storage resilience into the cybersecurity operations center (SOC) and cybersecurity applications across the data center, such as SIEM and SOAR tools. When an initial sign of a cyberattack is detected, an immutable data snapshot is automatically created. This removes the need for the security team to manually contact the storage administrator, now fully automating the synergy between data center cybersecurity and cyber resilient storage.
This automation sets the stage for swift cyber recovery because it initiates securing a verified clean data copy, ensuring it is free from any cyber threat. This process works in tandem with integrated cyber detection features already within Infinidat’s cyber resilient storage platforms.
Cyber detection enhances the core InfinSafe cyber stack’s resilience and response by empowering security and IT teams to identify ransomware and malware attacks with 99.99% accuracy and enable near-instant restoration of data from verified copies on InfiniBox and InfiniBox SSA platforms.
Through a thorough examination of block, file, database, and VMware datastores, cyber detection utilizes AI and ML-powered scanning engines to assess the reliability of InfiniBox and InfiniBox SSA immutable snapshots and flag any suspicious changes that might indicate a cyber attack.
As a leader in championing a cyber-focused, recovery-first strategy, Infinidat delivers the InfiniSafe® solution, offering an advanced suite of next-generation data protection features to bolster cyber storage resilience and facilitate rapid recovery.
Embracing a cyber-focused, recovery-first mindset allows an enterprise to gain a significant advantage in thwarting cyberattacks.
To access The Register / Blocks & Files report titled “Building the First and Last Lines of Cyber Defense,” download it here: snapshot-insight-first-and-last-line-cyber-defense.pdf
About the Author
Eric Herzog serves as the Chief Marketing Officer at Infinidat, a Lenovo company. Before joining Infinidat, Herzog held the positions of CMO and VP of Global Storage Channels at IBM Storage Solutions. He has also held senior leadership roles such as Senior Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing for EMC’s Enterprise & Mid-range Systems Division, and CMO as well as Senior VP of Alliances for the all-flash storage provider Violin Memory.
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