Ransomware Protection for Backups with NAKIVO
NAKIVO provides reliable ransomware protection for backups stored locally, in the cloud or on tape. When anti-ransomware software falls short, a trusted backup solution is your safety net for fast data recovery and business continuity.
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Ensure Data Recovery after a Ransomware Attack
To address the growing ransomware threats, NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides an advanced backup and recovery solution that allows you to implement multi-layered data protection, restore your data and resume normal business operations without paying a ransom.
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Strengthen Your Backup Protection Against Ransomware
Ransomware Protection Across All Workloads
With the NAKIVO solution, you can ensure ransomware protection for hybrid clouds and mixed environments of any size. Protect virtual, cloud, physical and SaaS workloads from a single interface.
Ransomware-Proof Backups
Keep backups safe with multiple offsite and cloud storage options, encryption, immutability, air-gapped tape copies, and built-in malware scanning, ensuring reliable, ransomware-proof recoveries.
Meet Compliance Requirements
The NAKIVO solution helps you meet the requirements of security standards like NIST and NIS2. Diversify backup locations and implement layered security for more reliable protection against ransomware and other cybersecurity threats.
Fast, Flexible Recovery After Attacks
Minimize downtime with instant VM boot, granular recovery, bare-metal restore and automated disaster recovery – so you can resume operations after a ransomware attack in minutes, not hours.
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The Advantages of NAKIVO’s Backup Solution Against Ransomware
Reliable Protection for All Workloads
NAKIVO Backup & Replication delivers reliable protection for all workloads, including virtual, physical, cloud, SaaS and hybrid environments. The solution supports image-based, app-aware, incremental backups with up to 4,000 recovery points, while ensuring consistency for apps like Exchange Server and Active Directory. To minimize downtime, you can instantly restore entire VMs or individual files and app objects, resuming operations in seconds.
Immutability
Protect backups from ransomware and accidental changes with immutability, using write-once-read-many (WORM) technology to preserve unaltered copies of sensitive data. Immutability can be enabled on Linux-based local storage, in the cloud and on NEC HYDRAstor file systems. You can also deploy the NAKIVO solution as a VA or AMI with a built-in, ransomware-proof local repository.
Flexible Storage for Better Security
Automatically send backup copies to a secondary repository offsite, to public clouds (Amazon S3, Wasabi, Azure Blob, Backblaze B2), other S3-compatible platforms or tape. This allows you to avoid a single point of failure and simplifies the implementation of the 3-2-1 strategy.
Air-Gapped Backups
Store backups on a detached USB drive, NAS or tape. These devices are disconnected from the production site and deliver an additional layer of security. Air-gapped backups provide guaranteed recovery since they are less susceptible to ransomware threats.
Business Continuity with VM Replication
Create and maintain replicas of VMs or EC2 instances at a remote site to ensure that your business is always available, even after a ransomware attack. When disaster strikes, power on replicas for fast failover, then fail back once production is restored. With Real-Time Replication for VMware, you can keep an always-updated VM copy at a secondary site, ready to boot and resume critical apps in seconds.
Instant Verification
What’s the worth of a non-bootable or corrupt backup or replica when your business suffers an attack? The NAKIVO solution enables you to instantly verify backups and replicas to ensure data is available and recoverable. Boot Verification automatically starts the VM from the latest backup or switches to the replica with networking disabled. Screenshot Verification provides visual proof of successful recovery via email or directly in the interface.
Advanced Data Security
Implement various protection features to ensure data integrity and safety. NAKIVO supports backup encryption at the source, network encryption and backup storage encryption to ensure end-to-end security against data breaches. Two-factor authentication adds login protection, while role-based access control ensures users only access what they’re authorized to manage.
Automated Data Protection
With data protection on autopilot, your backups stay secure and recoverable even during a ransomware attack. Schedule routine backup/replication workflows in seconds, automate protection with policy-based rules and run tasks in sequence using Job Chaining. You can also integrate third-party tools through HTTP APIs to streamline workflows and centralize management.
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Why NAKIVO for Ransomware Protection
FAQ
What harm can ransomware cause?
If a ransomware attack occurs, malicious software can encrypt all reachable data and deny access to systems. Moreover, hackers can delete that data and refuse to restore access to systems even if they receive the ransom payment on time. Ransomware attacks lead to data loss and downtime, resulting in severe financial and reputational damage. In a worst-case scenario, a ransomware attack can spell the end of an organization.
How to protect data from ransomware?
The NAKIVO ransomware backup solution provides a wide range of backup, replication, granular recovery and disaster recovery options to protect and recover data:
- Identify the most important business data, the number of copies to keep and where to store them.
- Create regular backups and verify them.
- Follow the 3-2-1 backup rule and store backups locally, offsite, in the cloud or on tape.
- Use immutable and air-gapped backups.
- Enable data encryption and limit access to your data.
- Create replicas of the critical VMs on another site.
- Scan backups before recovering data and machines to ensure they’re free of malware.
- Get ready for an attack by configuring an automated failover and failback.
Which environments can I protect against ransomware?
With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can protect hybrid cloud and mixed environments:
- Virtual: VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV and Proxmox VE
- Physical: Windows and Linux (servers and workstations)
- Cloud: Amazon EC2
- Unstructured data in file shares
- SaaS: Microsoft 365
How does immutability protect backups from ransomware?
Immutability protects data from encryption and deletion by ransomware with the write-once-read-many (WORM) technology. Enable immutability in Amazon S3, Wasabi, Backblaze B2, Azure Blob, other S3-compatible platforms; in a local Linux-based repository deployed as a part of NAKIVO hardened VA or AMI; or in NEC HYDRAstor file systems. Once you specify the immutability period for a backup, the data is protected from both accidental and malicious modification and can be used for ransomware recovery.
Can I automate failover with the NAKIVO solution?
Yes. The NAKIVO solution offers replication for virtual environments, allowing you to create copies of your workloads at a remote site. Use the Site Recovery feature to create automated disaster recovery workflows for failover and failback in case of a ransomware attack, and perform disaster recovery testing without disrupting your production environment.
Can the NAKIVO solution improve RPO and RTO?
Yes. Restore the latest version of ransomware-free data with NAKIVO Backup & Replication from up to 4,000 recovery points per backup to meet strict RPO requirements.
Use instant recovery options (like VM boot, instant granular recovery, instant P2V) and Site Recovery for disaster recovery orchestration to achieve the shortest RTOs.
With Real-Time Replication, you can achieve tighter RPOs by continuously updating your replicas as often as every second to restore your workloads to the point just before the disruption or disaster.
What are the 4 foundations of anti-ransomware protection?
Protect. Safeguard your data using anti-malware protection, cybersecurity awareness training and a solid data protection plan with a dedicated backup and disaster recovery solution: 1) Implement a backup plan based on the 3-2-1 rule. 2) Store encrypted backups in air-gapped and immutable repositories locally, in the cloud and on detachable devices. 3) Train employees to recognize phishing attacks and other social engineering tactics.
Detect. Enable proactive monitoring of your infrastructure using threat intelligence tools. Track key metrics to identify security incidents and breaches the moment they occur: 1) Use dedicated tools to detect suspicious activities and ransomware attacks as quickly as possible. 2) Track and analyze infrastructure performance with IT monitoring tools to identify anomalies early.
Respond. Perform the necessary mitigation activities during and after the cybersecurity incident to limit the damage and prevent data loss: 1) Contain the ransomware infection to prevent spreading across your network. 2) Disconnect critical production and backup systems from the network.
Recover. Apply your recovery plan as quickly as possible to minimize downtime and resume normal business operations: 1) Use backups to recover data and machines as quickly as possible and resume regular operations. 2) Scan backups for malware to ensure safe and clean recoveries. 3) Maintain uptime and availability using replication and Site Recovery for swift failover. 4) Do not pay the ransom.