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With cyber attacks on the rise and ransomware threats increasing 4,000 percent, it’s time to consider modernizing your data protection strategy .
Steven Sorensen | Lead Data Protection Engineer
vCORE Technology Partners | Nov. 19, 2020
With ransomware activity and cyber attacks skyrocketing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the FBI recently joined other U.S. agencies in issuing a warning of an imminent threat to hospitals and healthcare providers across the nation.
The FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Department of Health and Human Services, are urging healthcare organizations to take “timely and reasonable precautions” to protect their networks as bad actors target the industry with malicious loaders called TrickBot and BazarLoader.
This malware is being distributed through phishing campaigns that contain links to malicious websites or have attachments carrying the malware. Once compromised, the victim is provided with an encrypted email address through which to contact the attackers, who then request a sum of Bitcoin in exchange for decryption.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced tremendous changes across nearly every industry, and more employees than ever are working from home and, in some cases, using their own networks and devices. This shift is creating more opportunities for bad actors to enter into an environment.
Consider the following:
Amid these alarming trends, backup infrastructure and storage have become key targets for these attacks, and cyber criminals can quietly reside on an organization’s environment for weeks before “flipping the switch” and initiating a large-scale campaign. These well-planned, sophisticated attacks can leave the end-user without access to their data and can put a stranglehold on their business.
While organizations can take action to harden AD, storage, and application environments, a solid ransomware protection environment is quickly becoming another critical part of protecting the crown jewels of our infrastructure.
An air-gapped, immutable, tertiary copy of your data can be used to not only mitigate an attack, but also for detection. Cyber Recovery Vault from Dell Technologies is the first solution fully endorsed by Sheltered Harbor as the best approach to protecting and restoring your data.
Key attributes of a best-of-breed ransomware protection solution include:
Air-gapped recovery is gaining momentum in the industry in particular because of it’s capability in mitigating the impact of ransomware. This modern approach centers on data isolation, which includes keeping a copy of critical data off the network and creating multiple recovery points to ensure an uncompromised copy for recovery. (Source: Enterprise Strategy Group white paper)
vCORE is the first partner in the Western U.S. to be certified to deliver Dell Cyber Recovery solutions and can help enterprises evaluate and, if appropriate, deploy this new technology.
We take a consultative approach to cyber recovery solutions, meeting with key stakeholders in the client’s organization to identify “crown jewels” of the environment, architect a solid solution to protect critical data, and deliver not just the solution, but provide knowledge transfer and runbooks to ensure successful day-to-day operations after the initial implementation.
For more information and to request an engagement with vCORE’s data protection team, contact us at info@vcore.com.
In addition to modern data protection solutions, there are numerous steps an organization can take to prepare itself for the rising ransomware threat. Some best practices recommended by the FBI, CISA and HHS include:
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With cyber attacks on the rise and ransomware threats increasing 4,000 percent, it’s time to consider modernizing your data protection strategy .
Steven Sorensen | Lead Data Protection Engineer
vCORE Technology Partners | Nov. 19, 2020
With ransomware activity and cyber attacks skyrocketing during the COVID-19 pandemic, the FBI recently joined other U.S. agencies in issuing a warning of an imminent threat to hospitals and healthcare providers across the nation.
The FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Department of Health and Human Services, are urging healthcare organizations to take “timely and reasonable precautions” to protect their networks as bad actors target the industry with malicious loaders called TrickBot and BazarLoader.
This malware is being distributed through phishing campaigns that contain links to malicious websites or have attachments carrying the malware. Once compromised, the victim is provided with an encrypted email address through which to contact the attackers, who then request a sum of Bitcoin in exchange for decryption.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced tremendous changes across nearly every industry, and more employees than ever are working from home and, in some cases, using their own networks and devices. This shift is creating more opportunities for bad actors to enter into an environment.
Consider the following:
Amid these alarming trends, backup infrastructure and storage have become key targets for these attacks, and cyber criminals can quietly reside on an organization’s environment for weeks before “flipping the switch” and initiating a large-scale campaign. These well-planned, sophisticated attacks can leave the end-user without access to their data and can put a stranglehold on their business.
While organizations can take action to harden AD, storage, and application environments, a solid ransomware protection environment is quickly becoming another critical part of protecting the crown jewels of our infrastructure.
An air-gapped, immutable, tertiary copy of your data can be used to not only mitigate an attack, but also for detection. Cyber Recovery Vault from Dell Technologies is the first solution fully endorsed by Sheltered Harbor as the best approach to protecting and restoring your data.
Key attributes of a best-of-breed ransomware protection solution include:
Air-gapped recovery is gaining momentum in the industry in particular because of it’s capability in mitigating the impact of ransomware. This modern approach centers on data isolation, which includes keeping a copy of critical data off the network and creating multiple recovery points to ensure an uncompromised copy for recovery. (Source: Enterprise Strategy Group white paper)
vCORE is the first partner in the Western U.S. to be certified to deliver Dell Cyber Recovery solutions and can help enterprises evaluate and, if appropriate, deploy this new technology.
We take a consultative approach to cyber recovery solutions, meeting with key stakeholders in the client’s organization to identify “crown jewels” of the environment, architect a solid solution to protect critical data, and deliver not just the solution, but provide knowledge transfer and runbooks to ensure successful day-to-day operations after the initial implementation.
For more information and to request an engagement with vCORE’s data protection team, contact us at info@vcore.com.
In addition to modern data protection solutions, there are numerous steps an organization can take to prepare itself for the rising ransomware threat. Some best practices recommended by the FBI, CISA and HHS include:
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