Retrospect announced the general availability (GA) of
Retrospect Backup 18.5, featuring new anomaly detection, customizable filtering
and thresholds, and enhanced ransomware protection to help businesses quickly
detect and protect against malicious attacks. With deeper Microsoft Azure Blob
integration for Immutable Backups and integrated cloud bucket creation,
Retrospect Backup 18.5's anomaly detection and ransomware protect bolsters
StorCentric's data-centric security approach to organizations' critical
infrastructure.
Ransomware is a huge global threat to businesses around the world.
Beyond the high-profile attacks, including Colonial Pipeline, JBS, Garmin, and
Acer, many people now personally know a colleague whose business was attacked.
According to Coveware, most corporate targets are small and medium businesses.
72% of targeted businesses have fewer than 1,000 employees, and 37% have fewer
than 100. Businesses are projected to have paid out $20B in 2021, a 100% Y-o-Y
increase for the last four years, and it's only going to get worse with new
business models like RaaS: ransomware-as-a-service. With Retrospect Backup 18,
businesses can protect their infrastructure with immutable backups for
ransomware protection.
Beyond protection, organizations need to detect ransomware as
early as possible to stop the threat and remediate those resources. Retrospect
Backup 18.5 includes anomaly detection to identify changes in an environment
that warrants the attention of IT. Administrators can tailor anomaly detection
to their business's specific systems using customizable filtering and
thresholds for each of their backup policies, and those anomalies are
aggregated on Retrospect Management Console across the entire business's Retrospect
Backup instances or a partner's client base with a notification area for
responding to those anomalies.
"As ransomware continues to grow in prevalence, businesses
can leverage Retrospect's new anomaly detection to quickly identify when
ransomware has infected their infrastructure and rely on their immutable
backups to restore any lost data," said JG Heithcock, General Manager,
Retrospect, a StorCentric Company. "Anomaly detection is integrated into
Retrospect's policy-based workflow and with our hosted service, Retrospect
Management Console, to ensure customers and partners are notified about
anomalies as soon as they happen."
Included in Retrospect Backup 18.5:
- Anomaly Detection: Detect anomalies in systems based on
customizable filters and thresholds tailored to individual environments.
- Retrospect Management Console Integration: View anomalies across
a business or partner's entire client base in a single pane of glass.
- Improved Microsoft Azure Blob Integration: Set individual
immutable retention policies for different backup sets within the same Azure
Storage Container.
- Streamlined Immutable Backup User Experience: Automatically
create cloud buckets with immutable backups supported by default.
- LTO-9 Support: Includes support for LTO-9, with capacities up to
18TB (45TB compressed).
Channel Partner Validation
"Ransomware comes up so frequently now that companies need tools
like anomaly detection and immutable backups to detect and defend their core
data from threats, and enabling IT admins to adjust the filtering and alert
thresholds helps companies tailor the detection algorithm to their needs," said
Reuben Herfindahl, Owner of Digital Brigade.
"Retrospect's new anomaly detection can help businesses
proactively identify threats as soon as their backup runs. With Retrospect's
immutable backups, they know they can restore their backups if ransomware has
infiltrated their network," said Terry Noonan, License My Software LLC.