Backups simply aren’t enough anymore – here’s why your business needs to explore air-gapping and the importance of immutability…
Gone are the days when a simple backup will protect your organisation from cyberattacks, leaving I.T. professionals searching for the best way to protect their precious files and data.
Data can still be breached, even with a backup, and the fact that over 50% of businesses experienced some sort of cyber breach in 2020, puts real pressure on directors and I.T. professionals to get ahead of the curve to protect their respective organisations.
Working with leading I.T. Companies such as us here at CSG is a positive step in protecting your files and data and it also gives your business access to leading software and security practices that are being used at the highest level – such as Air – Gapping and Immutability.
What is air-gapping?
An air gap is a network security measure employed on one or more computers to ensure that a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured networks, such as the public Internet or an unsecured local area network.
Air-gapping prevents hackers from accessing the data on your server remotely, as air-gapping keeps your stored data offline by default, this makes it much more difficult for a ransomware infection to spread to your backups.
What is immutability?
Immutability ensures that no one can edit or delete any of your files after you’ve uploaded them to the cloud.
An immutable storage volume does not allow any data to be changed once it’s been written to disk meaning the data can be read, but not updated or deleted.
This means that even if you do get hit with ransomware, the ransomware cannot encrypt the data stored in the immutable storage volumes.
