Nasuni Ransomware Protection Add-on Service to File Data Platform to Delivering Cyber Resilience to Unstructured File Data

Nasuni Corporation announced Ransomware Protection, an add-on service to the latest release of the firm’s File Data Platform that offers an in-line ransomware edge detection capabilities for file data.

This service gives businesses greater confidence that their file data can recovered following an attack, and also that they can now rapidly detect live attacks and reduce the time and resources needed to uncover the source of the threat. Combined with an ability to restore millions of files in seconds, the company offers a scalable and cost-effective level of cyber resilience for unstructured data that is more powerful and effective than traditional file storage, backup solutions and other cloud file service offerings.

The cRansomware Protection service, together with existing recovery features of the firm’s File Data Platform, aligns with The National Institute of Standards (NIST) model for mitigating ransomware through identification, protection, detection, response, and recovery capabilities.

Detect and protect early to mitigate ransomware attacks and get back to business quickly
Ransomware Protection add-on service detects attacks earlier than traditional solutions that rely on a centralised approach to file scanning. Since the company’s ransomware detection capability is in-line and executing, as soon as new file data is created by users or applications at any edge location, emerging ransomware attacks are detected in real time. The service can also scale to protect hundreds of edge locations and petabyte of file data.

Unlike other ransomware detection offerings that require expensive and complex third-party components, Ransomware Protection can be activated by new and existing the firm’s customers without additional infrastructure.

Rapid ransomware recovery patent
In recognition of the capabilities and features of the company’s ransomware protection solution, the United States Patent andTrademark Office is awarding firm’s U.S. Patent No. 11,336,685, titled Cloud-native global file system with rapid ransomware recovery.

Traditional backup and data protection approaches do not work for file data
Unstructured file data is one of the top targets for ransomware attacks because it is critical to most businesses, making up more than 80% of all data in the enterprise, and the attack surface has exploded with more employees working from home. Traditional data protection offerings from backup vendors cannot respond quickly enough with their second copy architecture. The time required to locate the data and ‘copy’ it back to a ‘live’ state for the business can be days or weeks. The company’s solution architecture, leveraging cloud object storage, enables customers to store unlimited, immutable snapshots that can be retained for as long as they are needed. This reduces the time needed to recover from a ransomware attack – including identifying the source and scope of the attack and restoring uncorrupted versions of files – by hours or days.

Russ Kennedy, CPO, commented: “Typical NAS solutions lack ransomware detection and recovery capabilities, even though they house up to 80% of an organisation’s data, and detecting an attack can take hours, days, or even months. The goal of our new Ransomware Protection service is for our customers to prevent data loss and avoid paying ransoms to attackers.”

The company transforms legacy file infrastructure with a set of file data services that simplifies global infrastructures, provides 24/7 business continuity, optimizes users’ productivity, delivers game-changing business insights and the ability to choose any or multiple cloud providers. This innovation augments the firm’s core data protection capabilities and meets the market’s growing need for ransomware detection that is embedded in storage solutions themselves.

Joe Marando, CIO, The Jerde Partnership, added: “When we were hit by a ransomware attack, it took some time to investigate and finally triage the issue. When you go through something like this and it’s not immediately clear how extensive the attack is, you go into alarm mode. Knowing that Nasuni is taking the burden off my team by ensuring ransomware attacks are detected as they happen with detailed logging to help us laser in on the attack means that we can isolate the threat right away and get to the point of recovery more quickly.“

In the latest release of the File Data Platform is also Dashboards, which provide customers with pre-built dashboards to monitor the health and performance of their managed platform.

Ransomware Protection is available as an add-on service in the latest release of the firm’s File Data Platform.