Are you concerned about ransomware? Are you looking for a proven solution to protect your business-critical IT services against malware and other events that may lead to unplanned downtime? Malware infiltration has become a significant issue affecting businesses everywhere. Being able to quickly recover from outages and get back online fast is key, regardless of whether the outage is the result of a malware-related event or something else. Veritas InfoScale is designed to help you do this, and it also gives you the architectural flexibility you need to run your business-critical applications anywhere.
In addition to comprehensive functionality that provides high availability and disaster recovery for business-critical applications, InfoScale now has several integrated security features that are key parts of a multi-layered security strategy that can help ensure your business-critical applications are protected from malware and are easily recoverable from any kind of disruption. InfoScale provides important functionality to augment your IT security and resiliency strategy:
With all these features available as a single solution, InfoScale is a proven enterprise platform for running your business-critical applications with confidence. Let’s take a look at how it works.
Malware is unfortunately one of the main causes of unplanned downtime. Ransomware attacks are becoming commonplace, and it’s more important than ever to have a multi-layered strategy in place to protect your business-critical applications. In addition to application high availability and resiliency, InfoScale is designed to protect enterprise workloads by providing security features such as data immutability, encryption, and data isolation for your applications without compromising performance and usability. Figure 1 will give you a quick view of what this looks like.
InfoScale’s secure file system checkpoints work seamlessly with your applications. Immutable checkpoints are a quick, space-efficient, and easy-to-use solution for protecting your primary data against ransomware attacks. Checkpoints can be very quickly restored (storage rollback) which significantly reduces restore times compared to a traditional recovery from a backup image. InfoScale’s data isolation functionality helps reduce the attack vector by isolating application data snapshots from traffic, while still providing a fast and simple way to recover them when needed. InfoScale also includes FIPS compliant volume encryption which can be enabled automatically to reduce the risk of data exposure due to unauthorized access and exfiltration.
If you’re using a malware scanning solution, this provides another layer of security for InfoScale-managed systems and helps ensure that your environment is clean and malware free using the most up-to-date malware signatures.
Data corruption is another factor that may lead to unplanned downtime, and having an optimized recovery strategy to protect against data corruption is just as important as ransomware protection. Luckily, InfoScale makes it easy to protect your applications against both data corruption and ransomware in parallel (shown in Figure 2).
Some other very important features InfoScale provides to help ensure security and resiliency within your environment:
Fully protecting your applications against unplanned downtime means that you also need to protect your applications against other forms of outages such as natural disasters and system failures. With InfoScale, you can implement advanced HADR topologies for your applications in parallel with InfoScale’s security and ransomware protection features – a unique solution that delivers enterprise-grade protection and resiliency to help eliminate unplanned application downtime. Figure 4 is an example of how you can use InfoScale to implement an HADR strategy with a near-zero RPO and RTO.
With new security concerns arising every day, having a multi-layered cybersecurity strategy is more important than ever. InfoScale is a multi-faceted and comprehensive solution that delivers an advanced layer of security and application resiliency for business-critical applications. This helps keep your applications online and protected from malware – so you can run your business technology with confidence.
For more information on how InfoScale provides ransomware protection, security, and application resiliency, check out this solution paper. Check out this quick demo of InfoScale’s ransomware resiliency functionality.