Cyber Resiliency: Protecting Critical Data to Protect Your Business by DELL

As the average number of cyberattacks per company has risen 31%, the legal and financial consequences of such attacks have increased as well. The result is that, even as IT security budgets and investments grow, organizations are not feeling any more confident in their ability to protect against a malicious breach. The majority of respondents (81%) in the most recent Accenture State of Cybersecurity Report (81%) stated that staying ahead of attackers is a constant battle. At the same time, 78% said that they don’t know how or when a cybersecurity incident will affect their organizations.

The rise in volume – and value – of data makes it a prime target for cyberattackers. It’s a critical business asset and cybercriminals recognize that accessing data has tremendous financial upside for them…and an enormous downside for the compromised business. Once they gain access to your data, attackers can:

• • Remove access by encrypting it with a key
  • Attack data protection techniques to make sure that all restore capabilities are deleted
  • Hold it ransom until payment demands are met
  • Permanently delete data
  • Sell data on the dark web
  • Use the information to expose trade secrets or for corporate espionage

Dell Unstructured Data Solutions – Storage for the Cyber Resilient Enterprise

Dell Unstructured Data Solutions (UDS) enable cyber-protection and recovery solution by acting at the data layer to boost the overall cyber resiliency of business operations that depend on data. With Dell UDS, organizations gain significant advantages to minimize cyberattack risks related to data integrity and availability.

• • Provides an isolated and operational airgapped copy of data
  • Protects from insider attacks
  • Creates unchangeable data
  • Performs analytics and machines learning to identify and detect
  • Quickly initiates recovery of trusted data

In addition to these capabilities, Ransomware Defender offers the protection of last resort, which is a copy of the data in a cyber vault that is isolated from the production environment. After the initial replication of data to the cyber vault, an airgap is maintained between the production environment and the vault copy. Any further incremental replication is done only intermittently by closing the airgap after ensuring there are no known events that indicate a security breach on the production site. Defender is a highly scalable real-time event processing solution that provides user behavior analytics to detect and halt a ransomware attack on business-critical data stored on Dell Technologies PowerScale storage clusters.

With Dell Superna AirGap customers get vault isolation for the highest level of data security by building on the security of AirGap Basic. It includes components of both Ransomware Defender and Eyeglass to ensure the secure transfer of data and the network isolation of the vault PowerScale cluster.

With Dell Unstructured Data Storage (UDS) solutions, enterprise firms can leverage a portfolio that meets the performance, scalability, and security demands of cyber resiliency. In addition to solutions with scale out architecture to enable high bandwidth, high concurrency and high performance with all flash options, UDS is uniquely suited for cyber resiliency:

• • Recover 1 PB of data in a few hours. No other vault storage, on-prem or cloud, comes close to PowerScale’s data recovery speed.
  • Immutability with worm lock. Data immutability makes sure attackers cannot alter or delete data.
  • AI powered threat detection. Monitoring production data and alerting of suspicious activity puts IT a step ahead of attackers.
  • Scalable to multiple clusters. Single pane of glass for threat detection and data isolation protects multiple PowerScale clusters.

Discover how Dell UDS helps customers boost the cyber resiliency of unstructured data by providing comprehensive capabilities to protect data, detect attack events in real-time and recover from cyberattacks. Contact your local Channel or UDS manager for more information.