Be ransomware ready with cloud-first DPaaS
By Carrie Reber
Did you know that your choice of a data protection solution can not only help you recover from cyber-attacks, but can also reduce your vulnerability to those attacks? By storing your primary backups safely off the local network, and choosing a remotely hosted SaaS data protection application, two critical attack vectors will be safely out of the reach of ransomware.
Even though it’s a new year, the same old problems with ransomware remain. The number of cyber-attacks recorded last year was nearly two-fifths (38%) greater than the total volume observed in 2021, according to a recent article in InfoSecurity. Make 2023 the year you optimize your backup infrastructure to respond and recover from the unique challenges of ransomware and other cyber-attacks.
Cove Data Protection Vice President of Product Stefan Voss has been working in the backup and disaster recovery space for years, and brings a valuable perspective to the challenges of cyber-attacks and other types of disasters. In a recent webinar, he shared some specific ways that the right data protection architecture can help to reduce the size of your attack surface, better preparing you to respond when (not if) ransomware strikes.
Stefan explained that a cloud-first data protection architecture can help limit your vulnerability and is different from traditional local-first backup in three key ways:
1. Primary backup storage is in the cloud, off the local network
Crypto lockers that may be crawling the local network can’t lock up your backup files if they are isolated in a remote cloud storage location. But cloud-first doesn’t have to mean cloud-only. You may want to keep an optional local copy of your backup files for faster restore in the case of natural or physical disasters, but primary storage should be in the cloud.
2. The backup application itself is SaaS
If the backup application you’re counting on for recovery is also on the local network, then it too is vulnerable to attacks that take place there. There are many time-saving administrative advantages to data protection as a service, and the security advantage of isolating the application from the network adds to the appeal of this type of architecture.
3. Management complexity and backup copies are minimized
Traditional local-first backup that is tiered to secondary and/or cloud locations means more backup copies to be managed, more policies, more complexity, and more room for error. A clean, streamlined cloud-first architecture provides the protection you need without unnecessary extra layers of complexity.
There are other considerations, of course, such as a requirement for multi-factor authentication, but the thing to remember is that cloud-first DPaaS offers a better barrier against today’s most common data threats.
You can check out the full on-demand webinar by clicking this link.
Carrie Reber is senior product marketing manager for N‑able.
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