Why Isolated Recovery Solutions Can Help Thwart Your Next Cyber Attack

The cyber security threats facing organizations are more numerous and dangerous than ever. Ever day, hackers find new ways to exploit your infrastructure and wreak unprecedented havoc.

The hacker’s toolbox is brimming with devious new approaches. While traditional threats like denial of service (DDoS) attacks remain, new ways to compromise your internal IT such as the destruction of your primary and backup data are potentially even more destructive.

In what’s called cyber extortion or ransomware, today’s brazen online criminals will even go so far as to destroy your organization by holding very mission critical data hostage until a hefty fee is paid.

Clearly, the risks are too great to continue unprepared. Failure to take appropriate, proactive measures could mean going out of business.

According to the Cybersecurity Framework created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), organizations must design and implement organizational processes and governance that at a minimum, allow them to protect, respond, and recover from a cyber incident.

Fortunately, there are a growing number of enterprise solutions designed to help deal with today’s more nuanced hacking approaches.

Of course, implementing these solutions is often a challenge, especially with the proliferation of user endpoints. That’s why ensuring a successful 21^st Century resiliency plan often begins by determining your organization’s most critical applications, data, infrastructure, and recovery requirements.

From there, it’s a matter of designing and implementing an “air gap” solution to protect against and recover from an event, then executing the operating plan with associated run books and processes to ensure compliance.

We recommend developing controls and governance to manage an isolated recovery solution (IRS). At EMC, our Isolated Recovery Solution offers an air-gapped data backup architecture that limits exposure to a cyber attack and allows for restoration of data to a point in time before the attack began. I encourage you to check out more details about our portfolio of IRS solutions designed to meet the needs of our customers.

In the meantime, stay safe out there.

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