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In this insightful fireside chat on digital resilience and elevating data protection best practices industry experts Dan Angst, Mark Nijmeijer, and Harmail Singh Chatha share key strategies to strengthen your data protection and recovery efforts.
Learn how to boost your organization’s resilience, leverage cutting-edge tools, and ensure your business is prepared for any data challenges that come your way.
In today's evolving threat landscape, organizations face significant challenges in securing their data and maintaining business continuity. Ransomware attacks in particular, pose a major risk that requires a robust, comprehensive defense strategy. In this webinar, experts from HYCU, Nutanix, and Nutanix IT discuss best practices and solutions for achieving resilience, security, and recoverability. Learn how to boost your organization’s resilience, leverage cutting-edge tools, and ensure your business is prepared for any data challenges that come your way. Attendees will come away with a playbook for building a tested business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plan. Key topics include:
- Implementing the NIST Cybersecurity Framework for a robust Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) plan.
- Utilizing a multi-layered strategy to guarantee prompt recovery.
- Actionable best practices and insights from the Nutanix IT team.
- The importance of testing your recovery readiness to maintain business continuity.
AIOps is a landscape with creative solutions that vary in breadth and focus. For this Radar, EMA posed a series of questions to produce a charted use case summary of where each vendor is positioned. The questions also delivered a fresh look at how the industry has evolved, with detailed insights into design, deployment, cost, and overall effectiveness.
What’s in this white paper? Learn how AIOps industry has evolved and how CloudFabrix leads the industry in this Radar with its balance of product strength and cost-efficiency in change impact and capacity optimization, with strong support for all three use cases evaluated. Its platform continues to evolve and broaden its solid set of third-party integrations for monitoring, configuration, security, business impact, and other values.
Cloud observability is the process of gaining comprehensive insights into the performance, health, and state of cloud-based applications and infrastructure through monitoring, metrics, tracing, logging, and other telemetry data. It enables organizations to proactively detect, understand, and resolve issues to ensure optimal application performance and user experience.
This GigaOm Radar report examines 21 of the top cloud observability solutions and compares offerings against the capabilities (table stakes, key features, and emerging features) and nonfunctional requirements (business criteria) outlined in the companion Key Criteria report. Together, these reports provide an overview of the market, identify leading cloud observability offerings, and help decision-makers evaluate these solutions so they can make a more informed investment decision.
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.
A comparison of two backup storage approaches: using primary disk storage versus inline deduplication appliances. Uncover how to get the best of both worlds.
A lot of time goes into picking a backup application such as Veeam, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault, HYCU, Oracle RMAN Direct, and dozens of others. However, rarely does anyone think about or truly understand the impact of the backup storage that sits behind these backup application in regards to cost, performance, scalability, and IT staff time.
Learn when it makes sense to use primary storage disk for backup, what value deduplication appliances offer, and uncover how to find the benefits of both approaches in a single backup storage solution.
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.
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.
An independent review of ExaGrid’s newest and largest Tiered Backup Storage appliance: the ExaGrid EX189.
Enterprises facing rapidly growing backup demands and ever shrinking windows of opportunity need to rethink their data protection strategies. ExaGrid is the ideal solution as the Tiered Backup Storage systems deliver a smart scale-out solution, and the latest EX189 model takes density into the stratosphere with an industry-leading 12PB of raw backup capacity in 64U of rack space. ExaGrid’s EX appliances are a natural choice for enterprise data backup and disaster recovery as they deliver an easily deployed, highly flexible and high performing scale-out storage solution. Their innovative data protection features keep ransomware attacks at bay and ExaGrid’s flagship EX189 appliance offers a huge backup capacity that defies belief.
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.
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.
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.
Legacy Privileged Access Management (PAM) systems have become dangerous liabilities in today’s modern cloud-native world. James Scobey, CISO at Keeper Security dives into why your legacy PAM solution isn’t just ineffective — it’s actively putting your organization at risk.
As a former federal CISO who has spent decades designing and securing enterprise infrastructure, James Scobey has grown increasingly concerned as organizations continue to rely on legacy Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions designed for a different era.
These systems, once the gold standard in security, have become dangerous liabilities in today’s modern cloud-native world. James dives into why your legacy PAM solution isn’t just ineffective — it’s actively putting your organization at risk.
Driven by advanced AI-based analysis and full-content inspection of data, CyberSense® features a 99.99% service level agreement (SLA) to accurately detect sophisticated corruption caused by the latest, most sophisticated ransomware variants.
Modern ransomware variants are increasingly performing stealth corruption of data. Continuous validation of data integrity is crucial to minimize downtime and simplify the recovery processes, thereby mitigating the negative impacts of ransomware attacks.
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)
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.
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:
- 99.99%
Detection Accuracy: Identify ransomware-induced corruption with
precision.
- Real-Time
Data Integrity Checks: Analyze data at the binary level to detect even
the most advanced attack patterns.
- Rapid,
Confident Recovery: Forensic insights enable swift recovery of clean
data, minimizing downtime and impact.
Why Choose CyberSense? Trust that you will have best
possible recovery in the wake of a cyberattack.
Shadow encryption entered the arms race.
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.
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.
In this eBook, we focus on developing a stronger cyber resilience strategy to address the evolving threat landscape and why that strategy begins with trust.
Making the right investment in cybersecurity is crucial to understanding the balance between smarter spending and smarter recovery. You will learn:
- The critical role of strong cyber resilience and data integrity play in thwarting ransomware attacks.
- The cost-saving potential of data recovery and reduced downtime, and advocates for prevention and swift recovery.
- How an SLA in detecting corruption can fortify cyber resilience and effectively combat ransomware threats.
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