Introduction
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, protecting virtual machine (VM) environments has become more critical than ever. The growing sophistication of cyber threats poses significant risks to organizations, especially as virtual machines remain vital for mission-critical operations and infrastructure stability. For example, Europe experienced the highest number of ransomware attacks globally in 2023, accounting for 26% of incidents. The ESXiArgs ransomware attack in February 2023, highlighted in the X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2024 report, starkly demonstrated the vulnerabilities in VM infrastructure, particularly targeting VMware ESXi servers through a known security flaw.
As businesses continue to depend on VMs, protecting them becomes crucial. Any disruption can cripple operations, compromise data, and expose sensitive information. Facing these threats represents a significant challenge but also offers an opportunity to strengthen cybersecurity. Investing in robust VM protection not only mitigates risks but also enhances resilience, preserves customer trust, and helps ensure swift recovery.
IBM Storage Defender helps organizations overcome these challenges through a range of capabilities, starting with robust backup and extending to advanced functionalities designed to address sophisticated attacks and unforeseen catastrophic events. Storage Defender supports a wide range of hypervisors, including VMware, Nutanix Acropolis, Microsoft Hyper-V and Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), providing seamless integration across diverse VM environments. Let’s explore how these capabilities can help safeguard your VMs and ensure your business remains resilient in the face of evolving threats.
Recover hundreds of VMs instantly
Restore hundreds of VMs at scale to minimize downtime and swiftly bring essential operations back online after a disruption. Storage Defender ensures that every backup is a fully hydrated snapshot, enabling near-instantaneous restoration to any point in time. This capability eliminates the delays and limitations of traditional sequential backups, ensuring your organization can quickly recover and maintain operational continuity.
Unlock AI-Powered threat detection
Confidently counter sophisticated cyber-attacks, including Zero-Day vulnerabilities exploitation, with IBM's unique AI technology, which continuously monitors and detects potential threats across VM environments in real time. This multi-layered detection approach includes intelligent sensors for file system anomalies, continuous scanning of immutable snapshots across primary, secondary, and tertiary storage, and support for inline data corruption detection (IDCD) at the hardware level. These integrated layers help ensure thorough detection, no matter where threats originate.
Restart your operations with confidence
Achieve the safe and seamless reestablishment of essential operations with clean room recovery. By restoring VMs in a secure, controlled environment, organizations can conduct a thorough analysis and validation of data, helping to ensure it is free from threats before reentering production. This process minimizes vulnerabilities, strengthens security, and maintains business continuity with confidence.
Safeguard the integrity and privacy of your data
Fortify your VMs with a multi-layered defense that ensures your data remains intact, confidential, and resilient through robust protection capabilities like encryption, immutable snapshots, air-gap isolation, quorum approvals, and secure replication to remote sites. These measures empower your business to operate securely and help achieve regulatory compliance.
Why Storage Defender?
Storage Defender is a powerful solution that goes beyond robust backups, enabling your organization to confidently combat complex cyber threats and unexpected disruptions. With AI-driven threat detection, rapid mass recovery, and comprehensive data protection across all storage layers and hypervisors, your virtual environments remain secure, resilient, and compliant. These integrated capabilities not only safeguard your business but also provide a decisive advantage in today’s demanding landscape.
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