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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!

Immutability out-of-the-box solved for Mirazon and their customers
The desire to be resilient is becoming more prevalent across all corporations. Ransomware attacks have been rising over the past years, reaching a point where an attack occurs every 11 seconds. Because of this vulnerability, Mirazon, like many, needed to find an immutable solution that is also simple to operate and affordable for their customers.

This case study will cover the story of how Ootbi by Object First helped Mirazon cope with its business challenges. 

Ransomware attacks have been rising over the past years, reaching a point where an attack occurs every 11 seconds. This staggering statistic has proven that it is not a case of if but when, causing many corporations to seek resiliency. Furthermore, backups are now the primary target for ransomware. To address this vulnerability, Mirazon needed to properly secure not only their primary data, but also their backup data as well.

Server Backup: A Comprehensive Guide to Protecting The Data On Your Servers
Learn how to safeguard your server data with backups that preserve your information in case of an on-premises disaster. In this ebook you will learn: How to create a backup strategy, The difference between various backup types, Backup Strategies for on-premises, cloud-only and hybrid backups, How to evaluate cloud storage solutions with a Buyer's Guide, How to write a disaster recovery plan.
In business, data loss is unavoidable unless you have good server backups. Files get deleted accidentally, servers crash, computers fail, and employees make mistakes. However, those aren’t the only dangers. You could also lose your company data in a natural disaster or cybersecurity attack. Ransomware is a serious concern for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as well as large enterprises. Smart companies plan ahead to avoid data loss. This ebook will discuss: • Why it’s critical to keep your data backed up. • Server backup basics. • The different types of server backup. • How to create a solid backup strategy for your company. • How to create a recovery plan if you ever need to use your server backups.
Using Object Lock to Protect Mission Critical Infrastructure
For Centerbase, a software as a service (SaaS) platform serving high-performing legal practices, nothing is more important than security and performance. While they run a robust, replicated, on-premises data storage system, they found that they could not meet their desired recovery time objectives (RTO) if they faced a disaster that took out both their production and disaster recovery (DR) sites.
The combination of Backblaze B2, Veeam, and Ootbi simplified and strengthened Centerbase’s storage and backup architecture. Even with their primary DR center and their extensive NAS storage arrays, they would not have been able to rebuild their infrastructure fast enough to limit business impact. Now, if their primary DR site is affected by ransomware or natural disaster, they can turn to their Backblaze B2 backups to quickly restore data and meet RTO requirements
HYCU for Microsoft Entra ID: Safeguarding Your Identity and Access Management
HYCU offers robust data protection for Microsoft Entra ID, enhancing security for identity and access management. Key features highlighted in the 3-minute demo include enhanced data protection, streamlined management, and compliance assurance tools. The demo provides valuable insights for both new and existing HYCU users to optimize their data protection strategy and elevate their security posture.

Your organization's identity and access management systems hold the keys to your IT landscape, so protecting them is crucial to maintaining operational security and data integrity.

Manual backups and outdated scripts are slow and expensive. You need a solution that automates your backups and helps you recover data within minutes. HYCU offers robust data protection for Microsoft Entra ID, enhancing security for identity and access management.

Key Highlights of the 3-Minute Demo:

  • One-click restore of critical configurations: Whether accidentally deleted or breached, you’ll se how you can restore your entire Microsoft Entra ID tenant or single users, groups, roles, custom domains, app registrations, and more.
  • Safe, ransomware-proof copies. Learn how to store off-site copies in safe, immutable public cloud storage targets owned by you and only accessible to you – no one else.
  • Autopilot backups with ‘backup assurance’. Find out how to assign flexible ‘set and forget’ backup policies that run 24/7 with logging and notifications. Save time, resources, and risk by avoiding manual or scripted exports.

Watch this quick demo and take the first step towards a more secure, streamlined identity management solution.

The Guide to Choosing Backup Storage
Considerations, key requirements, and options for modern day IT shops
Most IT organizations put significant thought and research into choosing a backup application. However, most also assume you can simply put any kind of storage behind the backup application, and it will just work.

Backup storage is much more complex. While backup applications are usually top of mind, backup storage can often be overlooked and leads to poor performance, and overpaying for storage in the backup environment. In addition, the importance of utilizing backup storage as a key part of the recovery process especially after a ransomware attack. Being prepared for a recovery from a site disaster is also a big part of the equation.

Learn about the core requirements of backup storage, and review the pros and cons of the different approaches to backup storage.
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.