Comparing Cyber Security Solutions: Three Most Important Things to Consider...
It's no 'secret' #cyberresilience and #cyberprotection are top level concerns for anybody processing or storing data digitally. It's in the news almost daily...
Companies and orgs in any vertical industry, service delivery area, academic or research environment, non-profit and/or government agencies are all vulnerable to a #cyberattack. Assume an attack will happen.
Basically, anybody and everybody who collects, processes and/or stores data digitally is likely to get hit...from any device. Who isn't these days? Whether you're connected to the internet, cellular or WIFI environments...or not. It's a digitally transformed, multi-cloud world...and even smaller cyber universe.
Many IT vendors and solution/service providers today are focusing on cyber recovery against #malware and #ransomware attacks. But a lot are sounding (and claiming) alike. Some key words, terms and attributes are also being "borrowed" from other vendors who've been on the leading edge in developing resilient cyber recovery solutions.
So, how are you supposed to quickly and simply evaluate their solutions against other cyber protection offerings? Especially, when you don't have IT, MIS or Computer Engineering degree?
In real-estate, the three most important things for determining desirability -- and value -- are "location, location, location". For data backup copies and cyber resilience, it's all about the "three Is".
Basically, these three "I" are key 'indicators' of how well and thoroughly vendors can really assure maximum #databackup and cyber protection:
1. Immutability (i.e., WORM, lock retention and more)
2. Isolation (ex., true physical & logical 'gold' data copy "vaulting")
3. Intelligence (i.e., AI/ML cyber monitoring and detection software)
An undisputable fact is, the better data protection and backup solution architecture you have in place for production copies, the more you'll be ahead in protecting your data. Data security and integrity tables stakes...
Example? What happens if your data copies get corrupted, ransomed or deleted? It's hard to restore from a deleted or MIA backup. Restore from tape? Good luck trying to recover/restore from tape quickly and without going way back in time to your last PIT backup recovery point tape copy. More down time and disruption to operations (and users).
And when you add a separate layer of immutable, isolated and intelligent #cyberrecovery to your production data management solution, you get even MORE protection against malware, data corruption, bad actors and targeted ransomware attacks. Whether on-prem or in the cloud. This is especially important nowadays since your backup copies are likely being targeted, first and foremost.
If you have time, I do suggest you open the following informational podcast on Dell Technologies cyber protection approach for on-prem and cloud data.
#DellEMC's #PowerProtect software and appliances -- and specifically PowerProtect Cyber Recovery -- reduce your production data and backup copies' vulnerability to cyber attacks. And #PowerProtectCyberRecovery vault with #CyberSense software provides Intelligence for identifying and mitigating attack(s) impact.
So, check our PowerProtect solution portfolio out, along with CyberSense. The solution brief below, by the way, is certainly worth the short read if you want to learn more about this intelligent, automated software with our PowerProtect Cyber Recover air gap isolated vault.
CyberSense is much MORE than a mere, simple 'cyberscan'. It doesn't rely on searching for vulnerable code weak points listed up in a publicly assessible database (for bad actors to look for and leverage). It also constantly monitors for anomalous, suspicious behavior in your PowerProtect Cyber Recovery data copies. It's more intelligent and proactive...and automated. It can detect attacks, generate alerts and/or mitigate attack impact with pattern recognition, predictive modeling, machine learning and AI algorithms.
In closing, go with #delltechnologies complete data protection and security portfolio and sleep better. Your IT infrastructure, data, business operations and users will! :-)
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