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!
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:
Without a ransomware response plan, your organization remains vulnerable. Download your Cyber Attack Survival Guide for Healthcare now—it’s free!
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.
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 growthChoosing 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.
Verified Rate for Accurate Detection of Ransomware Corruption
The CyberSense 99.99% SLA, goes through rigorous testing against real-world scenarios with live ransomware. By leveraging continuous learning and AI to perform deep content inspection, CyberSense achieves unprecedented accuracy when detecting data corruption. Without this level of accuracy provided by CyberSense, organizations will remain vulnerable to ransomware attacks and will face elongated downtime and complex recovery processes that will negatively impact their organizations.
Maintain Confidence that alerts are real, and that false positives and negatives will be minimized
Support Continuous Accuracy with AI training done using real ransomware and studying how it changes data
Minimize Data Loss and cyber liability through detailed forensic reporting for faster, curated recovery
Prevent the Next Attack by feeding CyberSense's telemetry data to SIEM/SOAR systems
Read more in this validation from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)
Innovative AI Strategies Supporting Trusted Data Recovery`
The Challenge: Evolving Threat Landscape: Ransomware attacks are more sophisticated than ever, targeting critical data with stealth and precision. Traditional data protection strategies often fail to detect corruption, leaving businesses vulnerable to downtime, data loss, and significant financial impact.
Protect your data and your business—explore CyberSense today. Download the whitepaper to learn more.
The CyberSense Advantage: CyberSense offers proven AI-powered protection, ensuring unmatched accuracy and resilience:
Why Choose CyberSense? Trust that you will have best possible recovery in the wake of a cyberattack.
Shadow encryption was introduced in July 2021 when the ransomware gang Conti allegedly introduced LockFile. The LockFile ransomware variant used intermittent encryption to encrypt every 16 bytes of a file, leaving the rest unimpacted.This was specifically designed to evade detection by tools that look for obvious signs of encryption through unusual change in data compression rates.
Intermittent encryption changed the game as it was a challenge to detect. Data that was corrupted by LockFile did not generate the "signals" that most tools could detect and alert on. However, the bad actors didn't stop there. They continued to use technology to improve and advance their arsenals. Data encryption is a common approach to variants in their arsenals.With intermittent encryption being just the start, LockFile became one of the most prominent crime families in the ransomware game. Many took notice of this and continued to embrace shadow encryption and took it to the next level.
Around the same time that LockFile launched the Chaos ransomware variant was introduced. This variant took shadow encryption to the next level and utilized another form of shadow encryption based on Base64 algorithms. Base64 encoding helps conceal the true nature of ransomware corruption. By converting binary data into an ASCII string format, it makes the malicious code less recognizable to security tools and easily goes undetected. This approach deepened the bad actors shadow encryption strategies and generated great success in impacting organizations and forcing them to pay ransoms.
This detailed overview of CyberSense underscores the importance of adopting advanced detection technologies to stay ahead of cybercriminals and maintain operational integrity.
Security tools are necessary but often inadequate in detecting the latest ransomware variants, emphasizing the need for innovative ransomware detection strategies. CyberSense inspects data integrity at the content level, providing forensic insights and supporting rapid recovery and detects even the most sophisticated of ransomware variants. CyberSense targets ransomware behavior with deadly accuracy and reduces false positives and ensures both data and database integrity. CyberSense leverages over 200 analytics and machine learning to identify subtle anomalies and patterns of corruption. CyberSense integrates with existing data protection and security workflows, enhancing threat detection and response.
The "Top 7 Trends in Endpoint Security for 2023" report provides valuable insights into the evolving landscape of endpoint protection. It emphasizes the increasing importance of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), which operates on the principle that no user or device should be inherently trusted, thereby enhancing security through strict access controls and continuous monitoring.
The report also highlights the shift towards cloud-native endpoint security, offering scalability and real-time protection, especially vital with the rise of remote work. Additionally, the adoption of thin-managed operating systems is discussed, noting their role in reducing attack surfaces by securely connecting to cloud-based resources.
The integration of Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platforms is presented as a means to streamline security operations by consolidating data from various sources. Furthermore, the report underscores the significance of a human-centric approach to security, advocating for comprehensive employee training and fostering a culture of security awareness.
Advancements in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions are also covered, highlighting features like proactive threat hunting and automated responses. Lastly, the report discusses the role of security orchestration and automation in improving incident response times and operational efficiency.