In today’s digital economy, data is king and the differentiator among competitors, that’s why it’s simultaneously the most valuable and the most targeted asset in a business. By 2025 Cybersecurity Ventures predicts the global cost of damage due to cybercrime could be as high as USD$10.5 trillion annually, with ransomware attacks occurring as frequently as every two seconds by 2031. Businesses that are compromised can not only expect financial and data loss, but customer distrust and, in the health industry, risk to human life. 

The unfortunate reality is that backups are often considered the last line of defence, which places them in a vulnerable position at bottom of the priority list, where cyber criminals are increasingly focusing their attacks.  

Therefore, in order to truly feel secure, thwart ransomware and refuse ransomware demands, businesses must consider incorporating a more comprehensive and proactive approach to backups, in addition to traditional security measures, to protect their most valuable asset. 

An integrated data security solution, like Cohesity’s Helios, a next-generation data management platform together with Cisco SecureX, and Outcomex’s expertise, provides a unified platform for a simplified security experience.  
 

Thwart ransomware with Outcomex, Cisco SecureX and Cohesity 

The need to navigate multiple consoles to discover and respond to threats wastes crucial time that could make or break your defences. The integration of Cohesity’s data management with Cisco SecureX provides added visibility and context to data that may be of interest, enhancing Cisco’s existing capability to automatically aggregate signals from endpoints, networks, clouds and apps, all within SecureX.  

The integration between Cohesity and SecureX also gives IT administrators and Security Operations Centers (SOCs) unified visibility to identify and quickly respond to ransomware attacks, as they can initiate recovery actions directly from Cisco SecureX, such as initiating a workflow to restore compromised data or workloads to the last clean snapshot. 

Combined with Outcomex’s dedicated team of cyber security practitioners, who focus on excellence in governing, deploying, managing, and monitoring security portfolios, ensure environments are alert to the latest threat profiles. We ensure that customised vendor solutions work together and fit into each customers’ security estate, reducing time to respond to cyber security incidents by increasing toolset efficiency, reducing running costs and helping free resources for prevention, rather than a reactive approach. 

Machine learning extends the capabilities of your security platform 

As cyber-attacks continue to grow and become more sophisticated, the likelihood of infiltration into an organisation’s data increases. Cohesity makes it easy to manage and detect these intrusions and act quickly on data and applications globally.  

Cohesity’s Helios machine learning provides an additional layer of capability, providing businesses with insights that most humans would miss. It continuously monitors data and provides notifications to IT administrators or SOC’s automatically when anomalies are detected, such as, if data ingest or change rates are out of the normal range, indicating a potential ransomware attack.  

In addition to monitoring backup data changes, Helios monitors and alerts for anomalies that occur on the file-level within unstructured files and object data, for example an unusual number of times that a file has been modified, deleted or added by a particular user or the frequency of files accessed. 

Iron-clad backup protection with Outcomex and Cohesity  

Cohesity uniquely provides a multi-layered approach when it comes to protecting your backups against ransomware attacks. This high level of protection is possible because immutability is at the foundation.  

Snapshots are stored by default, in an unchangeable state, so the original snapshot (also known as the gold copy) is never exposed or mounted to any external system or application. The only way to write new data or mount the backup for recovery is through the creation of a zero-cost clone of the original backup, which is executed automatically by the system.  

In addition, features such as rules to write once read many (WORM), data encryption, built-in fault tolerance and modern data isolation ensure a strong, multi-faceted defence. 

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