This week Chris and Martin talk to Eran Brown, EMEA CTO at Infinidat about the challenges of ransomware and expediting fast recovery. Ransomware is a big challenge for IT organisations as hackers attempt to extort money from a range of businesses that include everything from large enterprises to healthcare organisations. However, is the traditional route of “restore from backup” actually practical or do IT organisations need a more comprehensive set of data protection and recovery techniques?

Eran sets the scene by describing the impacts of ransomware attacks on businesses. Companies with customer-facing websites risk lost revenue and customers who will go elsewhere if their services are down. It’s interesting to note that neither Chris nor Martin have seen a full “restore from backup” scenario in an IT organisation. In many respects, ransomware is a subset of a range of data loss scenarios. The aim for any organisation is to bring systems back into operation as fast as possible, and that means using a range of techniques.

Infinidat provides a set of data protection capabilities that includes snapshots, data replication and InfiniGuard, a purpose-built data protection platform. InfiniGuard uses the temporal location capabilities of InfiniBox to ensure that data recovery from disk is achieved at high speed, the time when recovery is most important.

Eran explains how the Infinidat portfolio can be used to reduce recovery times and bring data back within service level objectives. This includes proactive monitoring, which in the future will be key in ensuring IT organisations identify and quickly work to resolve ransomware attacks.

You can find more about InfiniGuard at the Infinidat website, including the white paper Eran references in the discussion.

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Timeline

* 00:00:00 – Intros * 00:01:25 – Ransomware 101 * 00:03:05 – Backup systems can be a weak link * 00:03:45 – What is the financial impact of ransomware? * 00:07:00 – Ransomware is a subset of other data loss scenarios * 00:08:30 – Snapshots are a great initial recovery solution * 00:10:35 – Recovery uses a mix of solutions to achieve * 00:11:30 – InfiniGuard – a recovery-focused data protection solution * 00:14:00 – We should be focusing on the performance of recovery not backup * 00:15:00 – InfiniGuard uses InfiniBox and temporal location to accelerate restores * 00:18:00 – InfiniGuard pre-fetches data into cache to speed up performance * 00:20:00 – Customers can use primary and secondary platform snapshots * 00:21:30 – Increased data volumes in snapshots can indicate ransomware * 00:27:05 – Wrap Up

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