The Five Essentials Of Immutable Storage: Why They Matter
Security Boulevard, Thursday, April 4th, 2024
It's estimated that a ransomware attack occurs every 11 seconds - and that rate is expected to reach every two seconds by 2031. According to the 2023 Veeam Data Protection Trends Report, 76% of organizations suffered at least one ransomware attack last year. And 60% were hit two, three, four times or more. You can track the latest occurrences online, in fact.
This means organizations need a robust backup strategy that can outsmart bad actors, in addition to the cybersecurity tools they rely on for mitigation and remediation. And these days, that strategy must include immutability.
Cybercriminals are After Your Backups
Backups have become a bigger target as ransomware attackers try to shut down all of a victim's recovery options. In fact, 94% of attackers tried to destroy backup repositories, according to Veeam's ransomware trends report. Of those organizations surveyed, 72% reported they'd had partial or complete attacks on their backups and 36% of their data was unrecoverable. Ransomware Zenis, for example, initially observed in 2018, was among the first to deliberately delete an organization's backups, going as far as overwriting its backup files three times to ensure that victims have no recourse for data recovery.