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Datto Launches Ransomware Protection to Proactively Respond to Rising Malware Threat
November 2016 by Marc Jacob
Datto announced enterprise-class ransomware protection for small and midsized businesses, now available from Datto’s managed service provider (MSP) partners. Built into Datto’s suite of products, ransomware protection and recovery automatically detects and identifies attacks, notifying administrators to immediately rollback to healthy data. The solution shortens downtime, saves money and reduces the impact to businesses, giving companies an effective and reliable alternative to paying hackers’ ransoms.
Recent research revealed that ransomware is fast becoming a ubiquitous security threat, with nearly 40% of all businesses experiencing an attack in the past year. The figure is even worse in Britain, where 54% of surveyed businesses had been targeted with such an attack.
Datto’s global State of Ransomware Report revealed 91 percent of MSPs surveyed have seen clients victimised by ransomware. As malware advances in sophistication, the ability to rapidly identify an attack and quickly recover means a business is back up and running in minutes as opposed to days. Datto applied its customers’ successes in rolling data back to pre-malware snapshots and developed a new arsenal against malicious encryption, which is now incorporated into the company’s Backupify, Datto NAS and Datto Drive offerings, as well as ransomware detection within its flagship SIRIS and ALTO appliances. Datto’s product enhancements support the company’s commitment to ensure business data is secure and accessible, no matter where it lives.
With Datto’s new ransomware detection feature, available on Datto SIRIS and ALTO devices, MSPs can easily identify a ransomware attack and roll systems back to a point in time before the attack hit. Ransomware, like most illicit software, leaves an identifiable footprint as it takes over a server, PC or laptop. Datto’s devices, which actively monitor backups, can detect a ransomware footprint and instantly notify admins that they have a ransomware attack on their hands. Recovery is then simply a matter of restoring from a previous backup.
Datto’s survey found that a staggering 35 percent of partners encountered ransomware in the cloud, leaving cloud-based file-sync-and-share systems just as vulnerable as local systems. Datto’s ransomware enhancements now include:
• Datto NAS: Traditionally deployed as a cloud-protected network attached storage (NAS) device, the device now includes NAS Guard, which allows customers to protect the device and other network storage with full image rollbacks under one umbrella.
• Datto Backupify: Subscribers can roll files and data stored in software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, such as Google Apps and Office 365, back to a known good state of health.
• Datto Drive: Building on the ransomware lessons learned from Datto Backupify, Datto Drive now performs daily backups in the cloud and on customers’ local appliances, protecting both from ransomware.
