“Even a person or process with administrative permissions can’t fully delete data,” says Stone. “It’s like an air bag: It’s not the only safety feature, but it can lower your risk. All data stays on your array to provide a recovery point after an attack, and using SafeMode to protect your security logs also means bad guys can’t cover their tracks.”
Deployed across storage instances and arrays, SafeMode effectively creates a virtual air gap by ensuring critical data is not only immutable but also undeletable.
After an attack, the most important thing is time to recovery, Stone says: “The only thing C-suites care about is, ‘Are we back up and running?’ It’s all about how fast you can come back.”
Pure Storage offers a solution to this issue with snapshots. According to Stone, “Snapshots are highly configurable. They’re created instantaneously using metadata pointers to capture the difference between different snapshots, which consolidates the function and makes it instant.” When longer-term recovery is also necessary, Pure offers its Rapid Restore capability, which is the industry’s fastest recovery solution on the market. According to Stone, “With some of our partner integrations, such as those with Commvault and Cohesity, Pure is able to bring you more that 17 times the recovery speed than the closest competitive solution.”
Stone also highlights the need for reliable post-attack supply chains. “The last thing your customers should think about is supply chain,” he says. “Pure can deliver right away. When you get hit, you’re not going to take your existing arrays and put them back into production. They may have to be submitted for audit or review. You need additional infrastructure — and you need it now.”
Backups make a big difference in reducing ransomware risk, especially as part of a larger strategy that starts by putting protection where it matters most: close to your data.
“This game changes every single day,” says Stone. “Adversaries are constantly changing, and you need new tools and strategies to stay safe.”
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