Why Storage Is a Key Pillar of Cyber Resilience

Imagine finding yourself at the heart of this scenario: Your data is encrypted, and unlocking it demands a hefty sum of money. Your systems are down, operations are at a standstill, and customers are growing increasingly frustrated.

You’ve fallen victim to a ransomware attack, and the clock is ticking!

Should you entertain paying the ransom? Is negotiation even viable?

Put simply, the ransomware situation in Southeast Asia has grown from bad to worse. In fact, the United Nations has described ransomware as “a growing threat that needs to be countered” as it “has skyrocketed to become the most prominent malware threat.”

But what if you could render “paying ransom” a non-issue altogether?

This is the essence of achieving cyber resilience – the capacity to endure, adapt to, and swiftly recover from potentially devastating cyber incidents such as ransomware, all the while ensuring seamless business continuity.

Building Cyber Resilience: The Critical Role of Storage

Cyber resilience is fundamentally anchored in the realm of storage infrastructure. Ransomware assailants relentlessly target organisations’ data, and storage serves as the digital bastion safeguarding this invaluable asset. In the intricate dance of cyber warfare, breaching an organisation’s defences often begins with infiltrating its storage infrastructure—the repository of critical data. Once inside, cybercriminals swiftly encrypt this data, triggering a cascade of system shutdowns, rendering them incapacitated and impotent.

Thus, entrusting faulty or inadequately secured storage is akin to handing over the keys to your digital vault to ransomware perpetrators—or worse, inviting them in unopposed. Conversely, modern storage solutions fortified with advanced technological capabilities erect formidable barriers, safeguarding data behind an impregnable fortress. Such robust measures ensure that data remains beyond the nefarious reach of cyber attackers.

The pervasive threat of ransomware is the reason a whopping 84% of respondents in Forrester’s Modern Storage Buyer’s Guide want ransomware protection and continuity built into their storage systems, with 69% identifying data protection as the number one technical driver they consider when selecting a new storage platform. This is unsurprising—not with a third of these same respondents admitting to being impacted by ransomware, with a fifth of them actually paying the ransom.

Indeed, companies need storage solutions that will not only serve as a repository for data, but also as a well-protected digital vault with built-in functionality to specifically respond to ransomware. That means storage solutions that are both cyber secure and cyber resilient—able to keep intruders out but with the capability nonetheless to mitigate damage in the event cyber attackers do get in.

Comprehensive Solutions for Cyber Resilience

In light of this, companies require a vendor such as Pure Storage, whose modern storage solutions are architected for both cybersecurity and cyber resiliency to enable organisations to recover quickly from an attack. With Pure Storage, companies gain a comprehensive suite of benefits:

Ransomware-Proof Backups: Pure Storage SafeMode Snapshots safeguard backup data and metadata, ensuring immunity against ransomware attacks. Even in the event of compromised admin credentials, data remains secure from erasure, modification, or encryption.

Quick and Seamless System Restoration: Time is of the essence during disasters. FlashBlade//S facilitates rapid and extensive system recovery, boasting petabyte-scale capabilities that outperform competitors by up to threefold.

Clean and Agile Recovery Environment: Enjoy the flexibility of a resilient recovery environment, ready to spring into action when needed most. With the ability to augment your workforce as necessary, Pure Storage’s solutions streamline the process of restoring normal business operations with efficiency and ease.

Simplified Snapshot Management: Easily customise snapshot scheduling and retention with Pure Storage’s intuitive interface. Seamlessly expand and upgrade your infrastructure without disruption or needing to alter your existing backup software—simply configure and let it run.

Business-Speed Recovery: Traditional disaster recovery methods are sluggish. Pure Storage’s all-flash solutions obliterate recovery-point and recovery-time objectives, drastically enhancing data recovery speeds without necessitating changes to your backup software.

In essence, Pure Storage effectively addresses every facet of data storage requirements, encompassing reliability, high performance, cybersecurity, and cyber resilience.

As ransomware threats loom larger in the future landscape, the demand for robust cyber-secure and resilient solutions becomes increasingly critical. With Pure Storage, businesses can confidently fortify their defences, ensuring they won’t fall victim to ransom demands in the future.

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