A long-delayed post, I was invited by Patrick Redknap for vRetreat virtual event earlier this year, I look forward to these sessions as they are technical and have a good opportunity to get in touch with some other vExperts virtually of course. Speaking of virtual events Patrick organised a VR Walkabout Mini Golf session which was an amazing experience.
In this vRetreat Session, we had Cohicity and Progress
The Cohesity presentation was by Vic Camacho, principal technologies discussing how increasing attacks have had an adverse effect on businesses in every industry – from small businesses to all the way up to multinational corporations. While some victims can recover after their systems get encrypted; others may not know what happened until it’s too late.
So the question remains on how do we stay protected, unfortunately, there is not a single answer as we are seeing that ransomware is getting evolved
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts files on your computer, making them inaccessible unless you pay a ransom to the attacker. These attacks are becoming more common, as they are a quick way for attackers to make money. It was very interesting to find out that we have 3 different versions of ransomware out in the wild. The first is Locky, which encrypts files with a .locky extension. The second is CryptoLocker, which encrypts files with a .crypto extension. The third is Petya, which encrypts the entire hard drive.
These attacks can be devastating, as they can render your data unusable. This is why it is important to have a backup and recovery solution in place. With Cohesity, you can quickly recover your data in the event of an attack. This solution also provides you with the ability to roll back to previous versions of your data, so that you can avoid paying ransom to the attackers.
Initially, we saw that the attacks was on systems to encrypt the data then we saw that they started targeting the backup and recovery systems, which would stop any IT administrators to try doing a recover the impacted system.
We are also seeing that ransomware attackers are also stealing customer data and threatening to expose it on the dark web or competitors which can be really bad reputational risk for any business.
Cohesity can help you protect your data with their backup and recovery solution. With this solution, you can quickly recover your data in the event of an attack. This solution also provides you with the ability to roll back to previous versions of your data, so that you can avoid paying ransom to the attackers.
A survey conducted by Cohesity shows that 95% of the customers want to detect the threats earlier, 80% of the customers told Ransomeware is changing how IT and Security collaborate, and 82 % of customers are changing the data management strategy in response to the threats like ransomware. So we can see clearly that customers are taking this very serious and are making changes to their IT Security.
Cohesity way of combating Ransomeware 1.0 is making sure the data is resilient using Access control and (Multifactor Authentication ) MFA. finally, the outer ring is where you can see for detection and analytics.
Cohesity way of combating Ransomeware 2.0 The ransomware account has changed from version 2.0 and they started targeting the data. which is combated by keeping multiple copies of data and snapshots and have MFA to even access the data. This is done by Encrypted Fault-Tolerant Immutable, along with this we have the detection and analytics.
Cohesity way of combating Ransomeware 3.0 with this version we found that Exfiltration has been happening very early before we detect the data anomaly. So a lot of organizations are trying to detect exfiltration sooner at the point when it begins.
It goes without saying that organizations need to educate their users about malicious attacks along with taking other measures.
Sometimes the bigger challenge is to know where the data is residing even before to start protecting the data.
The Cohesity Threat Defence Architecture: Cohesity’s mission is to protect data from all angles. They are redefining how organizations think about storage and protection with a single, unified solution for petabyte-scale environments that provide unparalleled visibility into application activity across your environment as well as stark differentiation against future attacks through automation (such as RollBack), built-in risk assessment tools like Machine Learning offering context-aware policies based on behavioural patterns uniquely identifies malicious domains before they harm infrastructure or patient safety
Overall Cohesity gives you the option to instant Mass restore, and detect anomalies to better protect your organizational data.
Cohesity provides a comprehensive and easy-to-use backup and recovery solution that helps you protect your data from ransomware attacks. With this solution, you can quickly recover your data in the event of an attack, as well as roll back to previous versions of your data if necessary. If you are not already using Cohesity for backup and recovery, now is the time to start. This solution can help you protect your data from ransomware attacks.
you can request a free trial at the following link https://www.cohesity.com/dm/free-trial/
You can check out the recorded session here for Progress and Cohesity, hope you enjoy watching the session.
