RSA Conference: Preview of Cybersecurity Platform for Backup and DR Systems From HotLink

HotLink Corporation will host a preview of its cybersecurity platform for backup and DR systems at RSA Conference USA 2018 on April 16-20 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.

Attendees will get a glimpse of new fingerprinting technology that will let service providers and enterprises secure their data protection systems against compromises that can render backups and replicated VMs unrecoverable following a production failure.

Ransomware, malware, cyber espionage and a range of other risks make cloud-based backup and DR systems a strategic defense if front-end security tools fail to thwart a breach. Yet, if compromised files or malicious configurations are unknowingly propagated into data protection systems, recovery may be time-consuming or even impossible. With threats increasing in complexity and bad actors able to exploit a growing number of security openings, the potential for compromises to remain undetected for long periods of time poses an ever-increasing risk.

The company’s solution addresses these issues with a cybersecurity platform for continuous protection of cloud-based backup and DR systems. The firm’s patent-pending technology provides fine-grained security fingerprints and policy-based analysis of all backups and replicated VMs, correlating against multiple threat intelligence feeds and evaluating a range of other security attributes for irregularities. In addition to easy-to-understand security dashboards and scoring methodologies, detailed remediation procedures provide clear corrective actions for all compromises. Minimal computing resources are required for analysis, so every restore point can be easily and affordably tested and analyzed.

“Security attacks on companies of all sizes have increased demand for cloud-based backup and DR services. However, detecting and remediating the broad spectrum of security issues comes at a high cost,” said Lynn LeBlanc, CEO, HotLink. “Vulnerabilities in IT environments can lie in wait for weeks or months, rendering the last good configuration very difficult to identify. Worse, the longer a compromise is undetected, the higher the likelihood that no safe or viable backup exists. HotLink’s new fingerprinting technology is the first solution to enable fine-grained, automated security testing on every backup taken, so IT teams can have full confidence in a fast recovery following a production security breach.“