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Gorilla Guide to Real-Time Ransomware Detection and Recovery
Not only does Ransomware threaten the very way we do business it also forces us to adapt as rapidly as it grows in variety. This Gorilla guide includes rethinking your disaster recovery strategies to ensure you do not rely solely on backups Any potential threat to any piece of data must be detected the moment it appears, but if all else fails then we must be able to recover all data from any point in time – fast – if we are to keep pace of our attackers.

Rethink Your Ransomware Resilience and Disaster Recovery Strategy

Ransomware attacks are on the rise and the ability to detect when an attack has begun is critical to the ability to recover quickly. Attackers are constantly evolving their attack methods and traditional backup and recovery technologies simply can’t detect encryption quickly enough.

This free Gorilla Guide outlines the dangers of ransomware, the impacts to organizations, and the need to detect attacks as they are occurring in real-time. This Gorilla Guide topics include:

-    The growing threat of ransomware
-    Challenges of traditional data protection solutions
-    Comparing solutions
-    Real-time ransomware detection & recovery
-    Zerto as an all-in-one CDP solution

Understanding how early detection can help mitigate a ransomware attack and allow recovery more quickly is vital to any ransomware resilience strategy. Don’t become a victim of delayed ransomware detection by relying on periodic backup solutions.
Download the free Gorilla Guide now to get informed!

Cyber Attack Survival Guide for Healthcare
With alarming statistics of ransomware attacks on the rise, healthcare organizations need to have a comprehensive disaster recovery plan in place. As healthcare organizations continue to evolve and store data in disparate locations and in the hands of more users than ever before, they have to take data protection as seriously as prevention. Prevention alone is not enough, and recovery must be a crucial component of every cybersecurity strategy.

It’s Time to Attack Your Ransomware Recovery Strategy

For healthcare organizations, experiencing a cyberattack is no longer a matter of if—it’s a matter of when. Developing a clear ransomware recovery strategy is your best defense. 

Our free Cyber Attack Survival Guide for Healthcare lays out the plan of attack needed to have a fighting chance against ransomware. This survival guide features essential information, including:

  • The growing threat of cyberattacks in healthcare
  • How healthcare customers use Zerto to recover in seconds
  • The key to rapid ransomware recovery to dramatically reduce downtime and data loss  

Without a ransomware response plan, your organization remains vulnerable. Download your Cyber Attack Survival Guide for Healthcare now—it’s free!

Remove the Budget Pressure of Inflated Endpoint Costs
What Can IT Leaders Do to Counter Endpoint Cost Inflation? Inflation and supply chain challenges have resulted in device costs increasing up to 20% since the start of 2021, placing significant pressure on budgets for end-user computing. This research identifies three key actions IT leaders must take when faced with extreme budget pressures.

What Can IT Leaders Do to Counter Endpoint Cost Inflation?

"Inflation and supply chain challenges have resulted in device costs increasing up to 20% since the start of 2021, placing significant pressure on budgets for end-user computing. This research identifies three key actions IT leaders must take when faced with extreme budget pressures."

How can IT Leaders counter this endpoint inflation? Recommendations include producing a TCO report on endpoint devices and refreshing, not replacing old hardware.

US Cybersecurity Census Report
Cybersecurity is now recognized as a key priority for U.S. businesses. However, cybersecurity threats are evolving as risks, and the responses necessary to mitigate them, change rapidly. Staying a step ahead of bad actors is a continuous challenge and businesses—despite their intentions to do so—aren’t always keeping pace.

Cybersecurity is now recognized as a key priority for U.S. businesses. However, cybersecurity threats are evolving as risks, and the responses necessary to mitigate them, change rapidly. Staying a step ahead of bad actors is a continuous challenge and businesses—despite their intentions to do so—aren’t always keeping pace.

To solve this problem, IT leaders must understand why. They need answers to questions such as, how is cybersecurity transforming? How are cyberattacks harming businesses? Where must investments in preventative training and tools be focused? Is cybersecurity being prioritized by leadership? And how does cybersecurity fit within organizational culture?

In partnership with Sapio Research, Keeper Security analyzed the behaviors and attitudes of 516 IT decision-makers in the U.S. to answer these questions and more. This report, Keeper’s second annual U.S. Cybersecurity Census, maps the transforming landscape of cybersecurity based on these expert insights. It provides leaders with a forensic assessment of the threats their businesses face and details the urgent strategies necessary to overcome them.

Businesses across the U.S. are making cybersecurity a priority. However, despite efforts and investments, clear gaps remain. Our research shows that there have been small steps, but no giant leaps.

The volume and pace at which threats are hitting businesses are increasing, and leadership can’t afford to wait. If they do, the financial, reputational, and organizational penalties will be severe. Likewise, as work has transformed dramatically over the past two years—with hybrid and remote working normalized— companies need to rethink how they are building cybersecurity resilience.

Optimization of IT Log Data with Log Intelligence
Cyber attacks are getting sophisticated, necessitating early detection of malicious activity. Stringent government policies and compliances necessitate building robust log management systems. And, increased reliance on technology to support hybrid work models necessitates efficient management of extensive log data. Hence, log intelligence is in demand by organizations as they need robust systems to address the issues above and create secure and efficient log management.
Want to know the Log Management Trends in 2024 and Beyond?
  • CISOs face stringent government regulations, such as the current administration mandating 12-18 months of log retention.
  • Chief Enterprise Architects worry that the average cost of a single enterprise service outage is $400K and the average MTTR is over 7 hrs.
  • Companies such as Facebook lose $65 million and 4.8% of their stock valuation over a 5-hour outage.
  • Security breaches mar organizational reputation and prove a threat to business.
  • 91% of leaders agree that monitoring tools are siloed and domain-specific, complicating the log management landscape.
  • VP Cloud/IT Services acknowledge the accelerated pace of digital transformation post-COVID-19 and recognize the need for more sophisticated security monitoring and SIEM adoption.
  • Log management market size reaches $2.3 billion in 2021 and is expected to grow to $4.1 billion by 2026 at a CAGR of 11.9%.
Connecticut Orthopaedics Transforms Endpoint Management and Security with IGEL
Teaming with IGEL allowed Connecticut Orthopaedics to manage the security and deployment of its Windows OS-based endpoints more efficiently and gain better visibility.
Connecticut Orthopaedics significantly improved its endpoint management and security by adopting IGEL’s solution. This allowed the healthcare provider to move Windows into a VDI environment, replacing Windows at the endpoint with IGEL OS for over 700 daily users with diverse needs. The transition to IGEL was initiated in April 2023 and fully deployed by August 2023. It was a smooth transition, thanks to the support from IGEL and the diligent work of the healthcare provider’s IT team. IGEL’s Preventative Security Model provided a secure, manageable, and scalable platform, enabling a stronger Zero Trust framework and streamlined endpoint management. The deployment included over 650 endpoints running IGEL OS. This transition has led to minimal end-user feedback, indicating a seamless change. It has allowed the healthcare provider to gain real-time analytics across its endpoints, enhancing its operational efficiency and security posture.

Western Health Improves End-User Experience, Extends Endpoint Device Lifespan With IGEL
IGEL becomes the solution of choice for Western Health because it integrates with Imprivata and makes it easy for the organization to connect to multiple hosted services using the latest software agents for extending the life of legacy endpoint devices.
•    Western Health required an endpoint management solution to prolong the lifespan of aging devices, thereby enhancing their sustainability and streamlining management processes
•    Key requirements included a “Break Glass” feature, integration with Imprivata and unified communications systems, and minimizing user impact during the transition
•    IGEL was chosen due to its excellent functionality, ease of integration with Imprivata, and cost savings achieved by not replacing 1,000 thin clients
•    The solution offers role-based access control, zero-touch deployment, and integration with current management services, as well as reporting and alerting on device usage, support for change management, and end-user communication

IGEL Accelerates Window 11 Migration in the Cloud for Now and Next
IGEL’s endpoint strategy accelerates the migration to Windows 11 in the Cloud by enabling IT to rapidly onboard and deliver secure fluid performance on AVD and Windows 365 Cloud PC.
Through the IGEL Ready program, close collaboration with key ecosystem partners supports modern collaboration tools and essential peripheral devices ensure compatibility with IGEL OS. This solution bire explores how integrations with Microsoft AVD, Windows 365 Cloud PC, and collaboration on healthcare use cases with Imprivata support secure access for roaming and remote users.
Endpoint TCO utilizing IGEL OS for Windows 11 Migrations
This document aims to help customers understand the full spectrum of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) savings possible when adopting IGEL as their endpoint solution.
Adopting IGEL as an endpoint solution can lead to substantial TCO savings across multiple categories. These savings are driven by reduced risk, enhanced sustainability, software and hardware cost reductions, and lower labor expenses. By understanding and calculating these factors, organizations can make an informed decision that not only optimizes their financial investment but also supports their organization’s security and sustainability goals.
Case Study: With IGEL OS, Heidenreich gains a solution that provides Ease of Management
Norwegian pipe wholesaler Heidenreich needed an endpoint management solution to extend the lifespan of older devices and streamline management systems. IGEL was chosen due to its excellent functionality, ease of integration, and cost savings achieved by not replacing three hundred thin clients, laptops, and PCs.

Heidenreich had challenges with their Citrix platform due to a combination of old and new DELL and Wyse hardware, laptops, and thin clients. When the company was expected to upgrade its Citrix platform to a new generation, the firm expressed concerns about the perceived high cost. Heidenreich started to look for an alternative solution, and their IT consultancy provider, Wedel IT, came up with the idea to implement IGEL OS. This case study focuses on IGEL’s ease of management, flexibility on the client side (new/old hardware), future-focused solutions, and security.

Solution Brief: Redefining the Enterprise Endpoint for the Cloud Era with IGEL and Island
This solution brief outlines how IGEL Secure Endpoint OS paired with Island, the Enterprise Browser, offers a unique endpoint solution for the modern enterprise.

The shift to SaaS and cloud computing allows enterprises to lower infrastructure costs and maintenance while improving efficiency and capabilities through scalable cloud data platforms. This move can also enhance productivity and workflow flexibility, enabling remote access to SaaS applications and data. However, it often leads to diversified endpoint operating systems, emphasizing the need for web browser access to SaaS applications. The adoption of IGEL's Secure Endpoint OS and Island's Enterprise Browser presents a modern solution for enterprises to optimize their digital workspaces and fully embrace this transformation.

Data Deduplication for Backup Q&A
A Q&A that answers what data deduplication is and why it is used for backup storage, what effects it has on backup and restore performance, what the different types of data deduplication are, and what can impact the amount of data deduplication that you get.

There are many misconceptions about data deduplication, and making decisions based on those misconceptions can produce undesirable (and unplanned) results. For instance, deployment of the wrong type of deduplication typically results in:

•    Excessively high disk usage and using as much as three times the bandwidth for offsite replication, and the resulting impact on short and long-term costs
•    Slower backup storage ingest due to inline compute-intensive data deduplication that greatly slows backups down and expands the backup window
•    Slower restores, VM boots, and tape copies that can take hours or even days due to the time-consuming rehydration of deduplicated data
•    Backup windows that continue to expand with data growth

Choosing a Tiered Backup Storage solution will have a major impact on the cost and performance of your backup environment for the next three to five years because backups are written to a disk-cache Landing Zone for fastest backup performance, and then tiered to a deduplicated data repository to reduce storage and resulting storage costs.

Technical Review: ExaGrid Retention Time-Lock for Ransomware Recovery
TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group reviewed ExaGrid’s Retention Time-Lock (RTL) for Ransomware Recovery solution. We focused on the benefits RTL offers to organizations in terms of their readiness for ransomware attacks and security policies for data protection and recovery, including immutability (i.e., prevention of any deletion or alteration of volume, application, or database data).
Ransomware attacks pose a significant threat to organizations, yet in 2023, most organizations were not
adequately prepared to deal with them. Enterprise Strategy Group research has shown a considerable gap between the average organization's preparedness level and that of the best-prepared ones. A closer look at readiness, prevention, detection/response, recovery, and business continuity reveals that organizations excel in prevention and response strategies but still lag in recovery strategies.

ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage, with its front-end disk-cache Landing Zone and separate Repository
Tier, contains all retention data. All backups are written directly to the network-facing ExaGrid disk-cache Landing Zone, which provides fast backup performance, and the most recent backups are kept in their full undeduplicated form for fast restores. In addition, ExaGrid’s immutability and RTL approach ensures recovery from a ransomware attack.

If your organization is looking to increase its ransomware readiness, prevention, detection/response, and recovery, Enterprise Strategy Group recommends looking closely at the ExaGrid RTL for Ransomware Recovery solution.
Coretek Teams with IGEL to Transform VDI Deployment for a Defense Contractor
IGEL’s industry leadership has made it an integral part of Coretek’s on-premises VDI offering. This offering uses Nutanix in combination with Citrix VDI to deliver secure end-user access to virtual applications and desktops.

A defense contractor with whom Coretek has had a long-standing relationship spanning nearly two decades had attempted to migrate to a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment twice with another technology services provider without success. Impressed by Coretek’s success with VDI implementations in healthcare and other industries, the defense contractor turned to the solution provider for help.

Coretek's VDI offering has evolved significantly over the years to better support today's power users. Due to its industry leadership, IGEL OS is currently the standard for new customer VDI rollouts at Coretek. One of the things that the Coretek team appreciates most about IGEL OS is its high level of configurability, as well as IGEL’s commitment to staying current with trends in the EUC space by aligning IGEL OS with a broad ecosystem of leading vendors, including those providing unified communications and collaboration (UCC) applications and tools. In this particular case, IGEL OS, in combination with new Dell endpoint hardware, enabled Coretek to restore performance following a significant shift in the customer’s usage of its UCC tools.

The customer is currently utilizing high-performance VDI desktops, leveraging IGEL OS at the endpoint, to design defense equipment and support connectivity and collaboration through video conferencing. IGEL’s Preventative Security Model™ supports Zero Trust security approaches and partners with leading Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) vendors to complement and reinforce these solutions from a security standpoint.

Infographic: IGEL Preventative Security Model
Learn why the Preventative Security Model™ is at the center of your IT strategy for Now & Next
IGEL Preventative Security Model™ delivers a holistic solution for a secure digital workspace in unison with leading partner technologies. This infographic demonstrates how with IGEL OS at its core, the Preventative Security Model removes the endpoint vulnerabilities that are frequently exploited by bad actors, dramatically reducing the risk of cyberattacks and consequent disruption to business operations.
Florence Bank Teams with COCC and IGEL to Pivot from a Traditional to a Virtualized Desktop
The combination of COCC's iWorkstation and IGEL OS enables the community bank to connect its remote and hybrid workforces to VMware Horizon desktops while enhancing security, improving efficiencies, and reducing costs.
Florence Bank’s decision to adopt the COCC’s iWorkstation and IGEL has enabled the community bank to quickly modernize its IT infrastructure.

Since deploying COCC’s iWorkstation offering and IGEL OS within its virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment, Florence Bank has streamlined its IT operations and improved the security of its endpoints.

IGEL’s Preventative Security Model, for example, provides a secure, manageable, and scalable platform, enabling a stronger Zero Trust framework and streamlined endpoint management.

The combination of the COCC iWorkstation and IGEL OS has also allowed Florence Bank to repurpose its aging hardware, in many cases extending its hardware refresh cycles by an additional five years, saving upwards of $100,000 to $150,000 in the process and enabling the community bank to take a phased approach when upgrading its desktop infrastructure.