Tag: Ransomware

Data loss events from malware attacks can compromise your backups, putting your recovery strategy at risk. Organizations rely on backups as a critical defense against data loss, but these same backups can inadvertently preserve malware that has infiltrated production systems without being detected and removed. When malicious events occur, customers face a significant challenge: determining […]

In a layered security strategy like a defense-in-depth, when prevention fails, mitigation becomes critical. Most AWS storage services use immutable storage and recovery from backup to mitigate the impact of ransomware. Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP) is a new security feature of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSx for ONTAP), a fully managed service that provides […]

Imagine running a large business with critical data stored on your servers. One day, your systems get hit by ransomware, leaving your data encrypted and inaccessible. The bad actor demands a hefty ransom to provide the decryption key. Paying the ransom doesn’t guarantee that you can get your data back, and not paying might mean […]

Update (12/11/2023): As of November 20, 2023, Amazon S3 supports enabling S3 Object Lock on existing buckets. Amazon S3 Object Lock is an Amazon S3 feature that allows you to store objects using a write once, read many (WORM) model. You can use WORM protection for scenarios where it is imperative that data is not […]