Caution: Your data is in danger—always.
And the biggest threat by far is ransomware, as it can cause unplanned downtime, lots of compromised data and a depleted bottom line. This can be due to paying the ransom needlessly or a damaged reputation if word of the attack leaks out. Worse, ransomware is starting to become the go-to cyber attack by cybercriminals, with cases of ransomware nearly doubling in 2021 (2,690 reported attacks) as compared to 2020 (1,389 cases).
Best believe then that these digital hostage-takers will be coming after you the first instance they can.
The question is: Are you ready for a ransomware attack?
Let’s find out by answering these three simple questions:
- Are you implementing a strategy that alleviates the impact of data sprawl and protects your workloads with quick, flexible recovery options?
- Does your solution go beyond Zero-Trust principles?
- Can you do all this simply, in a single pane of glass?
If you answered in the affirmative to all three, then you are ransomware-ready. Otherwise, you will need a modern ransomware approach that will enable you to fend off an attack and minimise its impact—ideally, to negligible levels. In other words, you will need a Zero-Loss Strategy.
The Zero-Loss Strategy is a business-critical approach to fighting ransomware. It expands upon Zero-Trust principles and helps enable better planning for managing and reducing the impact of ransomware and other cyber attacks. It alleviates the impact of data sprawl, protects your workloads and integrates data management into your security teams and other stakeholders.
Additionally, this Zero-Loss Strategy is implemented using a multi-layered security framework to ensure consistent and automated ransomware protection and recovery processes. Critically, you get all this power using just a single pane of glass, thus simplifying what can otherwise be a complex procedure in case of an attack.
You can get this Zero-Loss Strategy with Commvault, the one-stop data management platform known for non-stop innovation. Commvault Zero-Loss Strategy, in particular, has these defining features:
- End-to-End Data Visibility
This means having a complete view of your organisation’s data flows in all their entirety, which then enables you to catch threats even before they can do any damage—as in holding your data hostage.With Commvault enabling end-to-end data visibility via a single management platform, you can identify business-critical and sensitive data, minimise the attack surface, and lessen risk exposure. It also fortifies data protection through encryption, immutability and air-gapping backup copies. In addition, it leverages Machine-Learning anomaly detection and honeypot technology that gives early warning alerts in cases of intrusion.
- Broadest Workload Protection
With Commvault supporting the broadest workload coverage—spanning SaaS applications to endpoints to databases and virtual machines, containers and more—you are assured that no workload gets left behind.Commvault’s Zero-Loss Strategy actively monitors all your data and expands your workload functionality, all while reducing multiple tools and point products, minimising complexity and trimming down cost. The end result is complete and encompassed ransomware protection.
- Faster Business Response
Effective ransomware response entails speed and accuracy. Otherwise, the response won’t do you any good.With Commvault’s Zero-Loss Strategy, you can accelerate recovery through scalable, automated workflows, consistent processes and flexible restore options. All this, again, can be done using a single management console only, thereby eliminating the need to perform complex manual tasks. This simplified management also reduces staff frustration associated with using multiple-point products and tape backups.
- Zero-Trust Principles
“Trust nothing, trust no-one” is now the backbone of effective and proactive cybersecurity. And that is a core tenet of Commvault’s Zero-Loss Strategy.Commvault subscribes to the Zero-Trust principles and uses them as the foundation of its Zero-Loss Strategy. They make up the core of Commvault’s multi-layered security framework, thus enabling robust data protection through secure user accounts, access controls, leading security response tools and more.
Ransomware attacks are likely to transpire more frequently, and they are sure to grow even more sophisticated and more damaging. This is all the more reason for organisations to keep up and stay in lockstep with cybercriminals. And one way to do so is by deploying Commvault’s Zero-Loss Strategy to ransomware.
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