Nebulon TimeJump Combined Server and Storage Solution for 4-Minute Ransomware Recovery

Nebulon, Inc. unveiled TimeJump, a solution architected to address key ransomware mitigation challenges faced by CIOs and CISOs.

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TimeJump is a combined server and storage solution architected to offer complete ransomware recovery in less than 4 minutes.

According to pro-consumer technology website Comparitech, an investigation of 186 ransomware attacks on US businesses in 2020 found that downtime costs alone totaled $20.9 billion, averaging a staggering $112 million per attack. Bringing application data back online quickly, reliably, and at scale is imperative. Ransomware recovery solutions offered by traditional 3-tier and HCI vendors can address part of the problem with a ‘snapshot’ of customer data. However, when ransomware strikes, the attack can infect OSs and disable critical infrastructure, preventing immediate recovery from data snapshots. The resulting infrastructure recovery can take hours – or even days – and lead to unnecessary downtime costs.

TimeJump provides 4-minute restore capabilities not only for critical application data but also infected OSs, so application infrastructure can be brought back online near-instantly. With the debut of TimeJump, IT organisations no longer have to suffer through a lengthy manual recovery of critical infrastructure. They can instead reduce application infrastructure recovery from hours or days to under 4 minutes.

“A ransomware attack on your business is more a case of when, not if. Therefore, any ransomware protection strategy must go beyond prevention tactics and incorporate rapid recovery to mitigate downtime and related costs,” said David Floyer, CTO and co-founder, Wikibon. “The recovery solution from Nebulon is independent of the servers and allows the restoration of both data and the underlying OSs. This capability means IT can restore whole application clusters online in minutes.“

“Minimising the impact of ransomware attacks is critical for the continuous service delivery demanded by our clients. Therefore, naturally we implement preventative measures. Being able to recover quickly is imperative when-not if-ransomware strikes, but recovery tools aren’t accessible when their supporting infrastructure is infected.” said Damon Dance, director, sales, Inca Cloud. “Nebulon is our antidote to the paradox of management tools depending on the infrastructure they manage. If/when our infrastructure is ever compromised, Nebulon TimeJump will get our infrastructure backup and running so we can restore operations in minutes. No other combined server and storage solution on the market can do this that quickly.“

Not only does the company provide a ransomware recovery solution, the firm‘s smartInfrastructure offering also protects vs. ransomware attacks due to a day-one design decision. All critical enterprise data services, such as erasure coding, encryption and snapshots, are enabled by the company‘s PCIe-based services processing unit (SPU). The SPU connects to the server’s internal SSDs and operates in a separate security domain from the server’s CPU, memory, network, and OS. Isolated compute and storage security domains prevent ransomware from infecting the data protection software that enables reliable recovery of the OS and application data. Alternative solutions like HCI share server and storage security domains, so a ransomware attack on the server infects storage resources and protection software. This is particularly problematic when infrastructure management tools used for recovery depend on a healthy hypervisor, OS, and SDS data services.

Beyond rapid ransomware recovery and an architected security domain within the server, the company further immunises the infrastructure vs. the persistent threat of cyber criminals. Nebulon ON, the firm‘s cloud control plane, employs end-to-end hardware-based cryptographic authentication, and all communications are protected by always-on, end-to-end encryption.

“CIOs and CISOs are squarely focused on protecting their organisations from hackers on the lookout for the most vulnerable infrastructure attack vectors,” said Siamak Nazari, CEO, Nebulon. “Nebulon can help them sleep a little better at night knowing that our solution can both minimise the data services attack surface for ransomware, as well as help simply and quickly recover in under four minutes-an industry first we a proud to be a part of.“

Resources:
Blog: Ransomware: Why it’s inevitable and how to speed up recovery    
Full-stack ransomware recovery ransomware recovery in less than 4 minutes withTimeJump
Video: How to recover from ransomware in under 4 minutes? TimeJump demo