Among the catalogue of cyber resiliency frameworks circulating in the industry, you’ll nearly always find a word on the far right: Recover. The reality is, you can gather up and implement every best practice in the book — from identity and access management to threat detection — and still end up facing a successful ransomware attack. Recovery may be your last line of defense.  On-premises, most organizations now run at least one purpose-built backup tool for their resiliency. However, as more applications and data refactor and migrate to IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, many organizations rely on built-in tools for recovery – leaving them vulnerable. 

The Limitations of Snapshots 

In the Cloud Protection Trends Report for 2023, 61% of organizations noted that they use native snapshotting within their cloud of choice to back up their data.  Snapshots have many benefits, including: 

• Low Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) 

• Low Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) 
• Easy to setup and get started

But true backup goes beyond snapshots. It includes delivering the advanced capabilities most organizations need to stay resilient in the face of an insider threat, cyber security attack or just an accidental deletion – all without burning through your storage and compute budgets. Backup goes beyond snapshotting to offer:

• Granular recoveries, from full instance to file-level recovery 

• Restore flexibility across subscriptions, regions or locations outside the cloud 
• Storage efficiencies that tier to low-cost object storage 
• Improved security, including role-based access controls and resilient storage 

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azureoffers native backup for Azure virtual machines (VMs), Azure Files, Azure SQL and more. Check out this short demo from the Veeam Team to see it in action: 

Improved security is the last item on the storage benefits list that I want to fly in on. A fresh feature was added to Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure‘s most recent release, and it might be the lifesaver your company needs in the event of a cyberattack.

1 – Method for Azure Blob with Immutable Storage

The containers of Azure Blob contain additional lives, much like the cement blocks in Super Mario! Organizations can store data in a Write Once, Read Many ( WORM ) state thanks to Azure Blob’s immutable storage. Built-in measures come in two varieties:

• Time-based retention policies that take into account SEC 17a-4 ( f ), FINRA, and other regulations
• Policies of the genuine store for tamper-proof retention

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure builds on these use cases to add immutable backups. Cybersecurity events, like insider threats and malicious attacks, attempt to tamper with a variety of data types. In the Ransomware Trends Report for 2022, 38% of respondents acknowledged that some of their backup repositories were successfully destroyed – suggesting that adversaries seek out threat vectors well beyond production data stores.By adding Veeam to your Azure infrastructure, you’ll leverage purpose-built configuration methods to manage policies, retention periods, encryption (including passwords managed by Azure Key Vault) and enable Immutable Storage. In the event of a ransomware attack, you don’t need to pay the ransom or accept the KO! Just restore your tamper-proof backup to production and keep on moving.To see how easy it is to set up backup repositories with Veeam, check out this short demo from the Veeam Team:

Are You Prepared to Grade Up With Veeam?

It doesn’t have a lot of have to get started! No matter if you’re a long-time Veeam person or different to the place, he or she has made it simple to get started.

• First, make sure you have the castle’s secrets. Protection for VMware, Windows, Azure VMs, and more is provided by Veeam Universal License( VUL ).
• Part 2: Quickly from from the Azure Marketplace
• Step 3: For structures overviews, design guidance, and planning advice, visit the Veeam Help Center.
• Step 4: Come with me to VeeamON! I’ll be there to help the Veeam neighborhood understand the complexities of hybrid and multi-cloud management along with the sky device management team and many cloud solution experts. Miami, I’ll see you soon!