is your use of windows backup opening the door to hackers?
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Is Your Use of Windows-based Backup Opening the Door to Hackers?
Joe Noonan, VP Product Marketing
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New threats are prevailing!
http://www.unitrends.com/docs/papers/beginner-s-guide-to-ransomware
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50% of business attacks paid more than $10,000
20% paid more than $40,000
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Downtime can be more costly!
$700B lost in 2016
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"To be honest, we often advise people just to pay the ransom [if they don’t have backups]." Joseph Bonavolonta, Asst. Special Agent, FBI Cybercrime Boston Division
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Protect Secure Test Detect Recover
5 Ways The Right Backup Solution Fights Ransomware
New!
Often ignore
d!
Over-looked
!
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Can a backup solution be a gateway for Ransomware and other forms of malware?
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Yes, certain backup architectures can lead to backup systems being infected at a much higher probability.
Over-looked
!
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Highly targeted Windows-based software
Management complexity Backup Server / Media Server Backup Proxies Backup Repositories Dedicated WAN Accelerators Dedicated Management Servers Dedicated Monitoring & Reporting Servers
What Makes a Backup Architecture Less Secure?
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Secure: The New World Approach
Hardened, Linux Backup Appliances
vs.Targeted, Susceptible
Windows Software
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Less targeted by Ransomware hackers Hardened: Only turn on what’s need for
backup and continuity All-in-One Simplicity; Integrated Security
Backup Server / Media Server Backup Proxies Backup Repositories Dedicated WAN Accelerators Dedicated Management Servers Dedicated Monitoring & Reporting Servers
What Makes a Linux Backup Appliance More Secure?
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What else is important to beat a Ransomware attack?
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A Known Good Backup!
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5 Ways The Right Backup Solution Fights Ransomware
Often ignore
d!
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The need for confidence is pushing a new trend: IT Resilience
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Improved IT serviceability, recovery and integrity
Application focused: Virtual, physical and cloud workloads
What is “IT Resilience?”
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GitLab: Failure to assure recovery leads to more downtime
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Another example…
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How do I achieve IT Resilience?
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Advanced Testing and Reporting Automation
Old World• Praying that backups recovered successfully• Scrambling during DR exercises• Rarely, if ever, testing DR• Spending hours creating manual DR reports
New World• Fully automated, application-level testing and failover• Proactively uncover recovery issues for physical &
virtual• Business-level DR compliance report automation• Available for local, DR site, and Unitrends Cloud
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Boot order sequencing for N-tier applications
What automation technology is required?
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Application-specific integrity verification
What automation technology is required?
*Not a complete list!
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Network automation to isolate from production Virtual network assignment Network remodeling Re-IP
What automation technology is required?
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Compliance reporting for business stakeholders
What automation technology is required?
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Even More Advanced Solutions Are Available!
New!
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• Uses adaptive & predictive analytics against backup data
Designed to search for ransomware threat conditions
Proactive alerts are sent when ransomware conditions are detected
Proactive Ransomware Detection
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“The appliances and services are stable and reliable. Our Unitrends appliance literally paid for itself after being able to restore the 2 million+ files affected by ransomware earlier this year. “– Exco Engineering
What Customers Are Saying…
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Unitrends TopicPresentation Name | Date 2016
Thanks…can you repeat all that?
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Windows is highly targeted
Vendors using complex architectures make it even more difficult for you to manage risk
Hardened, Linux appliances with advanced automation and detection are proving more successful at beating Ransomware
Summary: Does Windows Backup Open the Door?
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