Security News > 2022 > February > How Pure Storage helps customers guard against ransomware

We talked to Shawn Rosemarin, global vice president for emerging technology solution sales at Pure Storage, about how the company can help customers protect themselves.

It's the amount of time and the amount of data that needs to be restored that is a direct driver of how long and complex it will be for you to get to that point of restoration.

That would be the recovery time objectives, how long can they be down? How much data can they afford to lose? Can they afford to lose an hour, a minute, a second, and depending on their industry, that would come down to that RPO. Can Pure Storage software or services detect ransomware and alert customers to it?

How can Pure help customers recover if their data starts getting compromised?

The most important piece is, do I have a non-encrypted backup to actually recover from? Or do I have non-encrypted snapshots to recover from? Snapshots are easy to restore but, in many cases, organisations cannot afford to keep 30, 45, 60 days of snapshots, so now you're looking at coming back from backup.

Because the paradigm changed, right? We think about backup speeds, and how quickly it could be backed up, so how quickly could we get the SQL database done so that the impact on performance wasn't there? However, these days, it's restore time, how quickly can we restore the data of those critical applications?

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