A recent IBM report looking at Ransomware attacks on businesses found that:

85% were not able to fully restore data from backup after an attack

61% took > 4 days to resume normal business operations

Could your business afford to be down for more than 4 days when (not if) an attack occurs?    It has also been reported that 60% of small businesses close within 6 months of an attack.   The Ransomware issue can be one of both business survival and regulatory compliance. 

At the time of an attack, the typical Board’s question is ‘when will we be back?’   In reality it is all about being prepared for this question and your answer to it.   

Storage Imperatives, an IBM Business Partner, helps organisations achieve a 'ransomware readiness' capability far superior to the norm: by deploying Real Time Threat Detection your team can know about an attack in under 60 seconds.  This gives your business time to take action with the aim being to deal with an attack within a work shift rather than days to weeks to months.

What if there was a simple to deploy storage appliance to protect your business' most critical workloads?    One that is independent of your existing server and storage vendor and with a low cost of acquisition? 

The IBM difference: an Inference Engine providing ongoing support as threats change    

IBM has added Real Time Threat Detection to their FlashSystem on-premise and cloud based storage offerings to detect potential threats faster than anyone else, thereby minimising the impact of an attack.     It is a process that identifies and responds to security threats before they can damage data or systems. The Inference Engine continuously monitors statistics gathered from every single I/O to early detect anomalies at the block level.  This engine can identify unusual activity, like potential Ransomware attacks, in under a minute.  Upon detection, an immediate alert is sent to IBM's Storage Insights, allowing for swift action to stop the attack and restore a clean, and protected, data snapshot.

Prepare your business for when a Ransomware attack hits:

Protect

✔️  By providing a clean Recovery Point

Detect

✔️  To minimise the volume of data/systems affected by an attack

Recover

✔️  With the shortest Recovery Time : 60 seconds or less!

→ For LESS than the average cost of each day of downtime for an SME

IBM FlashSystem is the most secure All Flash Storage system in the marketplace.  In addition, it rates highly in terms of key attributes which any storage system needs as part of your data resilience and core infrastructure requirements.   We can provide all the data you require to assess performance, efficiency, sustainability, cost and immutable snapshots for data recovery after an attack.      

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