Protect against Ransomware

Ransomware attacks continue to be top of mind for business and IT leaders. And for good reason. They compromise access to your organisation’s lifeblood — DATA

Consequences can be dire: Pay perpetrators to (maybe) unencrypt your data, stumble with decryption tools, or gamble on recovering from backups. With millions of dollars spent annually to guard entry points to data, many still underestimate the strategic value of augmenting data protection.

Your existing data protection may not be enough: Backups safeguard critical data against common scenarios such as recovering from natural or man-made disasters, data corruption, or accidental deletions.

However, ransomware attacks can stress existing data-protection infrastructure that may be built on legacy architectures, such as disk and tape, more than expected.

First, if you’re already struggling with meeting recovery SLAs, a ransomware attack can exacerbate the situation with additional downtime. Second, your backup systems and data can be compromised, which could require you to reinstall and reconfigure your backup solution, before even contemplating data recovery

You may think ransomware is “Windows-specific,” with your backups impervious to attacks while hosted on Linux servers. But in 2019, a new family of ransomware called Lilocked (or Lilu) emerged and started targeting Linux servers and respective data.