In Kenya we have recently heard of organisations making headlines on ransomware attacks and business leaders facing public embarrassment. So what exactly is Ransomware? Ransomware refers to a type of malware that is used to take core sensitive information ‘hostage’ making the victim’s system inaccessible causing business downtime, loss of revenue and repurational damage to an organisation. These cyber attacks have become a lucrative business growing in it’s sophistication and increasing in their demands.

Businesses have been taking measures such as employee education, regular patching, basic security but now with the evolving malware mature organisations are building resilience and mitigating risks by adopting a

The Huawei Multilayer Ransomware Protection Solution is built on comprehensive security and reliability features to defend against major serious threats to date. This solution provides the primary and backup storage protection to not just detect and block ransomware attacks, but also prevent tampering of data copies, which are used to restore data.

The Key technology features of the Huawei Ransomware Protection Storage Solution include:

Air-Gap technology used to build an isolation zone, in which, if attacked, production and backup storage data is protected and your system retains a copy of clean data that can be recovered. How? The isolation zone is mostly offline -the replication link is active only during replication- which ensures data copies are offline most of the time, reducing the possibility of attacks. The isolation zone also has dedicated personnel mitigating the risk of attack from within the organization.

The 3-2-1 golden rule of backup has now evolved to 3-2-1-1 best practice guideline for creating and maintaining multiple copies of important data, with

End-to-end data tampering prevention.

File system WORM and secure snapshot.

Ransomware detection. Ransomware detection needs to be performed on both production data and backup copies to ensure that all data is “clean” and safe to use using a

In addition, the solution best uses its secret weapon – Ocean Protect Backup Storage – to achieve the fastest recovery speed in the industry, while minimising the impact of ransomware on business continuity. Adopting the Huawei Multilayer Ransomware Protection Solution will be your organisation’s best move.