The first line of defense is to ensure your critical and most important asset—data—and your IT infrastructure is protected from the unknown and unexpected. Your backup infrastructure and backed-up data are the last line of defense to recover from an attack. Backups are an organization’s key to recovery. However, as a direct result, ransomware is often designed to seek and access backup files to hinder organizations’ ability to recover. With backups offering an organization’s key to recovery, the application of system hardening and immutability best practices is essential.

Many organizations likely maintain an increasingly complex IT environment they must manage within the constraints of reduced resources. Organizations want assurance their environment is safe, secure and capable of overcoming the threat of ransomware while reducing the day-to-day complexity of monitoring and maintaining backup and storage configurations.