The ability to react to a ransomware attack and carry out a quick recovery is essential for companies, since only seconds can mean significant losses. Many vendors on the market highlight many solutions with immutability and ransomware detection features as fundamental to a strategy against these attacks. But relying solely on immutable copies can mean slower recovery and therefore more downtime and loss. On the other hand, companies often have ransomware detection and prevention tools and have backups that are time-consuming and costly to restore. In short, the focus and efforts must be put on the capacity for a quick recovery. We tell you the 4 capabilities for a quick recovery.
4 capabilities for rapid recovery from ransomware
In order to provide fast recovery times (RTO) and thus avoid paying ransoms, solutions must offer the following capabilities:
Replication from backup
It is about replicating without putting any load on the production virtual machine, that is, the virtual machine is created in the disaster recovery site outside the backup repository that is prepared to be failover in the event of an accident. This significantly increases the RTOs since the virtual machine is already built and ready to run.
Instant recovery from storage arrays
This consists of the possibility of restoring files or virtual machines in a minimum time from storage snapshots (Pure, NetApp, EMC, HPE etc.).
Retrieval from a high-performance repository
It’s about backing up backups to high-performance storage media for quick recovery.
Failover/Failback
This capability enables traditional disaster recovery in the same user interface and license.