Why trust is a key component in data resiliency strategies:
Have you ever been told, "trust the process?" My teen daughter says it often. I'm always a bit excited, and maybe a little cautious as to whatever the outcome might be. Surprisingly often she is spot on. Other times she's just off the mark. Either way, it's a great learning experience for the two of us.
When it comes to ransomware, do you trust your process? Or are you just cautiously optimistic? In contrast to my daughter's outlook, you don't want cyber resilience to be a learning experience. Being slightly off the mark here could be the difference in business as usual or figuring out how and if your organization can recover. Way different than that time when my daughter bungled the sugar ratio in her famous pumpkin muffins when she tried to triple the recipe. Prevention, like properly measuring, is still a necessity, but its only part of the overall "process."
Much like that sugar, there is a missing ingredient here too: trust. How can you trust the prevention tools are working? What happens when they are outsmarted? Where do you turn for a smarter recovery?
CyberSense is an AI-powered data analytics engine designed to detect data corruption caused by ransomware across data tiers including backups and snapshots. CyberSense adds a data integrity component to the overall process. It's not a traditional prevention tool. We monitor the integrity of the data and understand when data is compromised due to ransomware behavior.
If an organization's process fails, what's the plan for recovering clean data?
CyberSense finds corruption and provides critical details about the extent of an attack. It helps organizations facilitate smart curated recovery with clean data. This is where you can "trust the process" to maintain data integrity and have confidence in the face of an attack.
1. AI-Driven Ransomware Corruption Analysis
CyberSense leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to detect patterns indicative of ransomware behavior. Trained on real ransomware variants (over 7,000 from our lab as of August 2024, academia, social media, VirusTotal, and other sources), CyberSense analyzes millions of data sets. With 200 content-based analytics, it achieves an impressive 99.99% accuracy in generating alerts when corruption is detected. This accuracy is key to supporting data integrity and trust data is analyzed for corruption due to current variants across storage tiers protected by CyberSense.
2. Data Integrity Insights Made Easy
Through continuous scans, CyberSense ensures that your data remains free from malicious corruption. This is how we define data integrity, and it's displayed directly on the homepage, so you can trust that your data is clean and recoverable, enabling storage, data protection and data security teams to maintain normal business operations. Conversely, it's easy to know that when an alert is triggered, action needs to be taken.
3. Smarter Recovery you can Trust
In the unfortunate event of an attack, CyberSense is your ally. It provides detailed, easily shareable information for your internal stakeholders and IT teams to curate a "smart recovery." Data integrity plays a crucial role here. By comparing protected data over time, CyberSense identifies behavioral patterns associated with ransomware corruption with 99.99% confidence (SLA validated by Enterprise Strategy Group). It reports on the point-in-time of malicious activity, helping you differentiate between good and compromised data.
4. Insights and Clarity
Understand the attack type, blast radius, affected hosts/files, and view both corrupted and clean backups. Without this level of accuracy, organizations will remain vulnerable to reinfecting their systems, excessive data loss and will face elongated downtime and excessive costs.
Organizations will know sooner when an attack occurs, understand the details of the attack and have a clear path to recovery.
5. Proactive Defense and Future Prevention
CyberSense not only aids recovery but also helps prevent future attacks. By feeding telemetry data into SIEM and SOAR solutions, it detects ransomware patterns that can improve their greater cyber resiliency strategies. Organizations can swiftly and intelligently and proactively identify ransomware variants to safeguard their data and protect against costly attacks.
If you want to see if you can trust our process, check out our ESG Technical Validation here.
About the Author
Rob Mossi is a senior director, product marketing, at Index Engines.
