Certified cyber resilience storage: technology insights and 5 key solutions

Cybercrime damages businesses in a multitude of ways, and intruder threats to your data are only increasing. A current threat in today's digital landscape is logical data corruption (LDC), where the need for additional storage solutions is essential.

To be resilient in the face of LDC attacks or other disruption, a successful storage solution is needed, that combines storage functionality, network configuration, administrative controls, and physical security.

In my previous article, I shared how to prevent and respond in a BOOM event, but to be truly cyber resilient, the right solutions and technologies must be implemented.

Let’s take a look at some cyber resilience storage solutions currently available, that support you in a BOOM event and beyond:

1. Traditional snapshot-based backup and recovery

Snapshots are a highly effective and economical method to address the requirements of traditional backup. These space-efficient, read-only data copies offer cost-effective recovery points, making for quick restoration of previous data versions.?

1. Protected snapshots

To safeguard snapshots effectively, one method involves replicating storage volumes from the primary system to a secondary one of the same type. Periodic snapshots on the secondary array serve as recovery copies.

1. Protected backups with WORM media

For enhanced recovery copy protection, Write Once Read Many (WORM) media proves valuable. Tape cartridges designated as WORM prevent overwrite, ensuring backup copy integrity against cyber threats.?

1. Tape air gap protection

Air gap protection refers to the physical or virtual isolation of systems or networks that prevent widespread data corruption. The most complete approach of using a tape library, ensures protected copies remain offline, offering true physical air gap protection against cybercrime.?

1. Protecting data with cloud object storage

Cloud object storage establishes policies, providing flexibility in setting default, minimum, and maximum retention periods. Which along with legal holds, can be applied to individual or multiple objects upon cloud data ingestion.?

Cyberattacks that deny access to your data, or at worst destroy it are only growing more sophisticated. The right balance must be found between the technologies you use and the practice in which it is used.

Only IBM storage solutions can offer end-to-end certified cyber resilience solutions!

IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM QRadar

IBM Spectrum Scale is a leading software-defined storage (SDS) solution, that through IBM QRadar, combines SDS solutions to offer a flexible and robust suite addressing all cyber resilience needs with enterprise-grade reliability and AI-driven insights.

IBM FlashSystem

IBM FlashSystem is renowned for its high performance and rich feature set, driven by NVMe-accelerated architecture and IBM Spectrum Virtualize. These data storage solutions minimise the risk of disruptions and financial losses from user errors, malicious attacks, or ransomware.?

IBM Storage for cyber resilience offers end to end certified solutions as the result of deep integration between innovative technology and a comprehensive portfolio of proven software, hardware and solution offerings.?

Message me today to find out more about implementing the right storage solutions to keep cyber criminals out of your data, making you truly cyber resilient.?