In a landmark survey of large enterprises by The Register / Blocks & Files last year, approximately 56% of enterprises with 10,000+ employees surveyed said that they have already incorporated enterprise storage solutions into their overall cybersecurity strategy, with an additional 20% of enterprises planning for it. This is significant because it represents a shift happening in the enterprise market toward embracing a cyber-focused, recovery-first approach to mitigate the impact of cyberattacks, including ransomware and malware.
Being able to recover business-critical and mission-critical data as fast as possible after a cyberattack is critical for any enterprise. To do it, enterprises need the one thing that makes all the difference – cyber storage resilience. Available through the foundational elements of next-generation data protection, cyber storage resilience and recovery capabilities enable enterprises to bounce back from cyberattacks, unscathed.
The Register / Blocks & Files report states, “Keeping critical data and applications safe from threats is a constant battle for every organization, and orchestrating and validating a fast recovery in the event of any incident is an equally important element of any effective cybersecurity defense.”
How fast is fast?
Rapid recovery from a cyberattack on the IT infrastructure is a priority, ranging from minutes to hours. According to The Register / Blocks & Files survey, over 30% said their recovery time objective is either “under one hour” or “under 30 minutes.” Another 30% of respondents indicated that it is “between 1 and 12 hours,” while the remaining said “under 24 hours.”
What has become important to savvy CIOs and CISOs is that there is a cyber recovery guarantee that matches the cyber recovery demand of global enterprises. Infinidat’s cyber recovery guarantee on the InfiniBox® and the InfiniBox™ SSA is one minute or less, regardless of dataset size. You can recover 10s of petabytes of data in the aftermath of a ransomware attack faster than you can typically get a cup of coffee at a drive-thru on a busy morning. That’s fast!
Recovery of data must be ultra-fast. If it’s slow (i.e., days to recover data), then it’s not working at the speed of enterprise business. It’s not working at the speed of compute. With the right cyber storage resilient capability built into your storage infrastructure, however, you can get all your data back within minutes or seconds.
The key to enabling such rapid recovery is cyber storage resilience that is powered by next-generation data protection capabilities. Next-gen data protection was created to combat today’s most sophisticated and dangerous cyberattacks. It adds preemptive and predictive capabilities that help mitigate the effects of massive cyberattacks.
What exactly is next-generation data protection?
Next-generation data protection includes the traditional aspects of data protection, such as the ability to handle backup repositories and to snapshot and replicate data. But the next generation of data protection also includes cyber storage resilience and ultra-rapid cyber recovery.
Next-gen data protection provides a cyber-focused, recovery-first methodology that calls for true immutability of data. Immutable copies of data are required for secure data analysis following a cyberattack. True immutability is built into next-gen data protection, making it key to recovery. The data cannot be altered or changed in any way. There is no “backdoor.”
To make data protection highly effective today for the datasets that seem most critical, it has to be highly integrated and orchestrated. You don’t want a manual process making a weak spot for your enterprise. To resolve this issue, one of the breakthrough capabilities of next-generation data protection is automated cyber protection.
Automated cyber protection seamlessly integrates cyber storage resilience into a cyber security operations center (SOC) and data center-wide cyber security applications, such as SIEM and SOAR cyber applications. At the first sign of a cyberattack, an immutable snapshot of your data is taken automatically. There is no manual process of the security team calling up the storage admin to say that there is a potential cyberattack underway. It’s now all automated, melding data center cybersecurity with cyber resilient storage.
Automated cyber protection paves the way to rapid cyber recovery because it kicks off the process of obtaining a known good copy of data that can be validated as 100% free of a cyber threat. This capability works hand in hand with a cyber detection capability that is built into Infinidat’s cyber resilient storage platforms.
Cyber detection enhances the core InfiniSafe cyber stack resilience and response capabilities by enabling the security and IT teams to detect ransomware and malware attacks with up to 99.99% accuracy and enable near-instantaneous recovery of data from known good copies on the InfiniBox and the InfiniBox SSA platforms.
Cyber detection performs a deep scanning of block, file, databases and VMware datastores by presenting InfiniBox and InfiniBox SSA immutable snapshots to powerful AI and ML-based scanning engine that validates their integrity and identify malicious changes that could indicate a cyberattack.
Having pioneered a cyber-focused, recovery-first approach, Infinidat offers the InfiniSafe® solution with an advanced set of next-generation data protection capabilities to increase cyber storage resilience and ensure fast recovery.
Taking a cyber-focused, recovery-first approach allows an enterprise to gain leverage in the battle against cyberattacks.
To read The Register / Blocks & Files report “Building the First and Last Lines of Cyber Defense,” go to: snapshot-insight-first-and-last-line-cyber-defense.pdf
About the Author
Eric Herzog is the Chief Marketing Officer at Infinidat, a Lenovo company. Prior to joining Infinidat, Herzog was CMO and VP of Global Storage Channels at IBM Storage Solutions. His executive leadership experience also includes: Senior Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing for EMC’s Enterprise & Mid-range Systems Division, and CMO and Senior VP of Alliances for all-flash storage provider Violin Memory.
Eric Herzog can be reached via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/erherzog/
