Surya Varanasi, CTO, StorCentric
“As cyber threats continue to raise concerns across virtually all industries, particularly healthcare and financial, it is important that organizations remain compliant and find solutions that implement the latest encrypted technology to protect their data and the data of their customers.
To support business continuity, as well as ensure data protection and security, IT professionals should look for policy-based solutions with the ability to fingerprint and encrypt data to fortify businesses against viruses, ransomware, and other bad actors. Solutions that are able to restore from virtual shortcuts can decrease the amount of time spent retrieving data and help users bring their businesses back up quickly. Implementing self-healing technology can help the system to automatically ensure it is in order and ensure your last line of defense is continuously updated and ready to go. This is an immutable copy that can’t be altered and it is replicated to a remote location using an encrypted transfer. While you can’t eliminate cybercrime, you can take steps to help organizations be prepared to evade and/or recover from it.”
JG Heithcock, General Manager of Retrospect, Inc., a StorCentric Company
“National Cybersecurity Awareness Month serves as a reminder that cyber criminals continue to exploit the pandemic and remote workforce by targeting organizations through phishing, malware distribution, false domain names, and other attacks on teleworking infrastructure.
Preparing for cybercrime attacks through the use of proven techniques will protect your data and critical systems, helping your organization to minimize risks, rapidly recover if necessary, and maintain operations.. This includes updating your system and investing in anti-malware software; protecting your endpoints and not just servers or file sharing systems; implementing a 3-2-1 backup strategy consisting of: 3 copies of data, 2 different formats and 1 offsite location; routinely monitoring backups to help detect ransomware; and no matter how uncomfortable it might seem, do not pay the ransom in the event of a ransomware attack as this doesn’t guarantee your data will be restored.”