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HOW TO DEFEND AGAINST RANSOMWARE ATTACKS AND DISASTER EVENTS

By Sherian Batallones
06/03/2021

Cloud security has been one of the most pressing issues organizations face in
today’s cloud era. As a trusted third-party SaaS solutions provider, AvePoint
understands that securing your critical workspace platforms means not only
having a strong defense against cyberattacks but also planning for an effective
recovery plan in case destructive events happen.

Built to protect customers’ data, Cloud Backup is developed with data security
top of mind and fashioned with comprehensive backup capabilities for the swift
recovery of data from worst-case data loss scenarios, be they user errors,
outages, or ransomware attacks.

So, how exactly does Cloud Backup build a defense against ransomware attacks,
and what are its disaster recovery plans in the case of catastrophic scenarios?

Read on to find out!

FIRST, LET’S TALK ABOUT DISASTER RECOVERY…

Preparing for a disaster recovery plan is different from a backup plan—although
both are crucial. While backup recovery is more concerned with recovering
accidentally lost data, disaster recovery involves ensuring business continuity
when catastrophes happen.

This is why a good disaster recovery plan requires a set of good decisions and
processes that would serve as solutions to handle these scenarios. When it
happens, will you be able to secure your data center and get it back up and
running in no time?

HOW SECURE IS AVEPOINT’S DATA CENTER?

The first thing to remember here is that an Azure Data Center and an Office 365
Data Center are not necessarily in the same location even if the region name is
the same. At AvePoint, we elect to use our Azure Data Centers to get as close to
Office 365 as possible.

So, in case disaster events happen and we lose a data center, our customers’
data, their settings, and their registrations will still be preserved through
SQL backups which are automatically replicated by Microsoft.

Now that we know AvePoint’s data center recovery strategy in the event of a
disaster, let’s move on to another pressing issue most organizations are
concerned about.

RANSOMWARE

Ransomware is one of the most significant cloud security threats to
organizations around the world. The increasingly complex nature of these malware
calls for a shift in our mindset: more than planning on how to deal with the
aftermath, we are forced to strengthen our defense security to prevent any of it
from happening in the first place.

According to Microsoft, these are how most ransomware infections start:

1. Email messages and opened attachments
2. Websites hosting exploit kits using vulnerabilities in web browsers and
other software

In Microsoft 365, that risk comes in the form of losing account information to
phishing attacks or losing control of OneDrive or Exchange data. While we cannot
prevent those events from happening to your employees, we can help with recovery
while ensuring your backup data does not fall prey to the same attacks!

CLOUD BACKUP VS. RANSOMWARE

AvePoint Cloud Backup takes every precaution to make sure that our solutions are
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HOSTED IN MICROSOFT AZURE AD

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The same defense strategy you employ to protect your users, including single
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authentication, and usage pattern alerting all come into play when it comes to
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This means that because of this, the only people who can access your backup
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WEB-API AND ENTERPRISE MONITORING

AvePoint is also integrated with Systems Center (SCOM), which provides
independent logs of all administrator activity through audit logs that have
web-API. These are then logged through the customer’s Office 365 tenant (piped
into their SIEM systems) to ensure all access can be independently verified.

These often have alerts that can identify malicious attacks or compromising
activities and can help you be more proactive in detecting attacks.

SECURED BLOBS

At AvePoint, once the BLOBs backup data is written, it can’t be modified
anymore. Additionally, we give our clients choices for storage locations to keep
security in our customers’ hands:

* BYOK: Customer-Owned Encryption Keys: Unique keys are given for each tenant
through Azure KeyVault. These are owned and managed by each customer to
prevent unauthorized access.
* BYOS: Customer-Owned Data Storage: Customers are given hosted options through
Azure or any customer-owned cloud and server storage service to store their
data
* BYOA: Customer-Owned Authentication: Customers can retain control of
authentication and authorization of AOS through single sign-on with Office
365 credentials and Azure AD applications

AvePoint’s commitment to Cloud Security is one of our top priorities. While you
keep you data safe with your own encryption keys, data storage, or
authentication, trust that we’ll do our part as well.

Our level of commitment has earned us a SOC 2 Type II attestation and ISO-27001
certification which confirms how serious we are in meeting strict information
security and privacy standards for the handling of highly sensitive customer
data.

CLOUD BACKUP RECOVERY

Even with all the strict security measures put in place, the risk of getting hit
by ransomware attacks are never zero, and it is always better to be prepared
than be compliant. When it comes to data recovery, AvePoint offers powerful data
recovery options that are superior to other backup solutions.

Customers can quickly get back to business operations with point-in-time
recovery through time-based restores. A comprehensive, granular, and
full-fidelity recovery of Microsoft 365 content is available to ensure even your
metadata is not lost. It can even perform security rollbacks and has a simple
search and object-based restore to let you determine which data you want to
recover as a priority.

If you want to learn more about how to protect your data against ransomware and
other causes of data loss, check out Cloud Backup’s full capabilities on our
webpage.

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