It’s the status quo for your security budget to prioritise keeping out attackers via tools that block and catch them early. But prevention is a goer for only as long as it works.

The question worth asking is how your organisation can respond to threats and whether it can carry on working if a threat gets through.

The gap that opens mid-incident

Ransomware is dead set on going after backups and destroying your recovery options.

Detect ransomware too late and even a boatload of alerts won’t help as your compromised backups provide no way back to a previous state.

Your recovery point has to be one that your attacker never got near, ideally one you have oversight over, so it cannot be changed or deleted at all.

Keeping your backups out of reach

Dell Tech PowerProtect One stores your backups on Data Domain storage; Dell’s protection storage via a physical backup appliance. It sits in your data centre, holding your recovery copies in an unalterable form out of reach.

Air gapping is the correct term here, done in software. PowerProtect Data Manager handles your schedules, policies, and recovery in one place.

Backups cannot be encrypted or deleted, so whatever happens to your live systems, there’s always a clean state to return to.

Anomaly Detection is another feature of Dell Tech PowerProtect One. It’ll scan your file activity following backups and flag what it deems suspicious, such as mass encryption in the data that comes through.

Some 15,000 customers trust Data Domain storage for immutable backups, encryption, and air gapping. Your organisation can too.

Getting back to normality, fast

So, Dell Tech PowerProtect One One keeps your backups safe and provides immutable recovery. The functionality is there. Now, how about the speed?

It’s enterprise-grade to say the least, with Automated System Recovery that can rebuild your servers to their last uncompromised state. It restores the server as one image from the backup held on Data Domain.

Prevention keeps the threats out; recovery saves you from those that get in. Reducing your exposure and impact from threats is the PowerProtect One way.

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