Ransomware Recovery | Recover Data and Files | Redstor

No such thing as 100% effective ransomware protection

Ransomware attacks are becoming smarter, more common, and more dangerous. Leading researchers Cybersecurity Ventures predict that on the current growth trajectory, the cost in damages to businesses globally will be a staggering $265 billion per year by 2031, with an organisation falling victim every two seconds. Malware is continually evolving, and anti-virus software is struggling to keep up. Once an infection has occurred, removing the ransomware is almost impossible.

Paying up doesn’t guarantee getting your data back

Paying the ransom is also no guarantee of getting back your business-critical files. Not all ransomware behaves as expected: decryption might fail, or a second, higher ransom fee might be demanded. There is also nothing to stop cyber-attackers from targeting your organisation again if they know you’re willing to pay.

Adopt a recovery-first approach

To increase the likelihood of payment, attackers often target backups on the same network, which would make data recovery impossible. Recovery should therefore be at the forefront of your defence plan. Backups need to be isolated from your live environment, in an offsite location, preferably in a cloud service designed for this purpose.

Ensure adequate retention

When your business relies on sync-and-share services for backup, you run the risk of not having a recovery point from before the ransomware infection occurred. Since ransomware can sit dormant on a network for up to 180 days before executing just to ensure that it’s present in all retained backups, having no clean versions to restore means you might as well have no backups at all. With Redstor, you can keep multiple retention points to ensure there is always a safe copy of your data available.

Test regularly

Most businesses have a disaster recovery (DR) plan in place, but it’s not worth much if it doesn’t work. You need to regularly test that you can in fact restore data from your backups. Invoking DR, even as a test, can cause disruption and involves time and planning. Redstor’s InstantData technology enables you to instantly verify that you can access your backup data in the event of a crisis – perfect for testing. Recover temporarily or permanently to a physical machine, virtual machine or the cloud.

Cloud-based backup – the best defence

Redstor’s ransomware recovery solution enables you to recover all data and systems to a state before the ransomware infection took hold. This negates the effects of ransomware, avoids the need to pay a ransom and allows you to recover from an attack quickly and resiliently. Our cloud technology encrypts the data before it leaves your devices, and it remains encrypted at all times on our platform, ensuring ransomware can’t execute.