Snapshots – usually immutable anyway – get functionality to stop ransomware intruders moving or deleting snapshots, so customers know they have clean copies of data to restore from
November 5, 2021 By Antony Adshead
Ransomware has been 2021’s growth industry. The volume of attacks is in the tens of thousands, with thousands of victims and an average payout of $1.85m, according to Sophos.
We could dwell on the data – which sectors are most at risk and in which countries – but the key focus is the main way in which storage and backup suppliers are tackling the issue, namely via snapshots, which they are usually keen to call “immutable snapshots”.
But why immutable snapshots? Where do they fit as a response to the mechanism of a ransomware attack? Which suppliers provide this capability? And what are the benefits and potential drawbacks?
