AirGap Backup Protection
As cyberattacks, such as ransomware, become more sophisticated, it is crucial for organizations of all sizes to protect their backup data. One of the most effective methods for safeguarding against these threats is to implement an air-gap strategy, which involves isolating backup data from the primary production environment.
Cleondris ONE provides a comprehensive solution, integrating with NetApp technologies to ensure that backups remain safe, accurate, and available when needed.
Cleondris ONE, in conjunction with NetApp’s Snapshots, SnapMirror, and SnapLock compliance software, offers a logical air-gap solution to ensure your backup data is isolated and protected from ransomware and other cyber threats. This air-gapped approach creates timely, read-only copies of your data, backing them to a segregated ONTAP system. This ensures that even if primary systems are compromised, your backups remain intact and ready for recovery.
How it Works
AirGap Backup Protection leverages NetApp ONTAP Snapshot copies, SnapMirror replication, and Cleondris ONE’s advanced monitoring capabilities. Snapshots are precise, read-only copies of your data taken when the data was recorded. These copies are regularly transferred from the primary system to an isolated offsite system using SnapMirror. To further protect these backups, SnapLock compliance software prevents malicious actors, even those with administrative privileges, from deleting the offsite Snapshot copies.
Cleondris ONE goes further by continuously monitoring these Snapshot copies to ensure they have not been corrupted or encrypted and by detecting any existing corruption that might have been missed during the initial backup process.
Key Features
- Snapshot Monitoring: Continuously monitoring Snapshot copies to ensure they remain free from corruption or encryption, ensuring the integrity of your backup data.
- Corruption Detection: Built-in tools check for corrupted data that might not have been detected when the air-gap backup was created, adding another layer of protection against undetected threats.
- Ransomware Protection: By safeguarding Snapshot copies and ensuring they are isolated from primary production systems, Cleondris ONE protects against ransomware attacks, ensuring your backups are secure and available.
- Recovery Support: A file browser, catalog, and search functionality assist administrators in quickly identifying and restoring affected files when needed.
- Integration with NetApp ONTAP: Seamlessly integrates with NetApp ONTAP, providing a user-friendly interface for configuring and monitoring logical air-gap backups.
Organizations can rely on Cleondris ONE to safeguard their backup data from ransomware attacks and other cyber threats. By utilizing logical air-gap backups through NetApp ONTAP Snapshot copies and Cleondris ONE, organizations can rest assured that their data is consistently accessible and shielded from corruption.
AirGap Backup Protection
Cleondris ONE offers an effective solution for organizations looking to implement air-gapped backups without the complexity of traditional methods. Using NetApp ONTAP Snapshot copies and SnapMirror replication, the solution ensures that backups are accurate, point-in-time copies of data securely transferred to an offsite system. SnapLock compliance software provides additional protection by ensuring that even administrative-level threats cannot delete or alter the backups.
In the event of an attack, the built-in file browser, file catalog, and search capabilities allow administrators to quickly identify and restore the files they need, minimizing downtime and data loss.
This air-gap solution can also be used with a Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) system, allowing organizations to manage backups across both on-premises and cloud environments.
