Iron Cloud Cyber Recovery

Iron Mountain's strategy for ransomware recovery is a core component of our Iron Cloud Data Management services. Iron Cloud Cyber Recovery as a Service helps customers reduce risk, achieve compliance, minimize complexity and recover from data breaches.

• We help achieve business resilience against cyber attacks and operational disruptions through being a single source provider of cyber protection software, hardware and cloud managed services.
• Our service includes the ability to protect and backup your data on immutable local and offsite storage. This means that once data is written, it cannot be altered or deleted for a set period, which protects backup integrity from malicious encryption attempts.
• We provide recovery support services to allow for easy and fast data recovery from immutable point in time snapshots stored in Iron Cloud.
• We provide direct integration with our cost effective long term object storage service to help reduce costs and meet compliance
• We utilize a combination of advanced technologies and proven protocols to facilitate a rapid and predictable cyber recovery, helping to reduce costly downtime.

Our comprehensive data protection services are designed to address the entire lifecycle of your information. By focusing on both robust data security and strict protocols, we help you build a resilient data protection strategy. This method supports your data privacy compliance obligations by safeguarding critical information from unauthorized encryption or exfiltration. It reinforces your overall security posture against sophisticated cyber attacks.

Iron Mountain provides a comprehensive end to end data protection service to ensure you can recover your data after a ransomware attack. Our service focuses on restoring your systems using a clean, validated copy of your data that has been stored in an offsite, logically air-gapped Iron Cloud data center.

• The recovery process starts with your data, which is held in our secure, air-gapped vaults , preventing data corruption and/or data loss.
• We assist in validating the recovery data to confirm it is uninfected before it is used to restore your servers and bring systems back online.
• Our experienced support teams provide expert guidance throughout the entire server recovery process, supplementing your internal IT resources during a critical event.

Our primary objective extends beyond simple restoration to building long-term cyber security resilience. The methodology for recovering a server after a ransomware attack is a vital part of a broader data protection strategy. We provide the tools and expertise to help your business withstand and recover from sophisticated cyber threats. This strengthens your ability to maintain business continuity during and after a critical incident.

Choosing Iron Mountain for ransomware recovery as a service provides access to specialized infrastructure and deep expertise in data protection. We assist with the complexities of cyber recovery so your team can focus on core business activities. Our services are designed to offer a reliable and predictable path to recovery. This helps your organisation avoid the uncertainty and high costs associated with a ransomware incident.

• Our service includes delivery of the on premise software and hardware to ensure you have a local, immutable backup as well as our cloud managed service to ensure you have secure and recoverable copy from our cloud environment.
• Our zero trust data protection solution also helps prevent attacks via features such as encryption and anomaly detection and can identify where and when an attack began should you experience a breach.
• We offer a clear cost structure for a complete data protection solution, helping you manage budgets and prevent the unforeseen expenses of an attack.
• Our strict chain-of-custody procedures and support for data privacy compliance standards give you an auditable trail of your data's security.

Partnering with us means investing in a strategic approach to cyber resilience. Our Cyber Recovery as a Service is a critical component of a robust business continuity plan. We integrate core privacy and security principles to protect your information assets. This provides a defensible and predictable recovery strategy that safeguards your most valuable data from sophisticated threats, helping to preserve your company's reputation and financial stability.

Cyber recovery is a specialized component of a company's business continuity plan that focuses on recovering from a destructive cyber attack, such as ransomware. Its main purpose is to protect critical data by isolating it in a highly secure, vaulted environment. This makes the data inaccessible to attackers. It assumes a breach will occur and prepares the organisation to restore operations from a trusted, uncompromised data source.

• The process involves creating immutable and air-gapped copies of essential data, meaning the copies cannot be altered, encrypted, or deleted by network-based threats.
• A critical step is the validation of recovery data integrity, which helps to confirm that the data is clean and malware-free before it is used for restoration.
• A successful cyber recovery strategy allows an organization to rapidly restore systems and data to a known good state, which helps minimize downtime and data loss.

A well-designed cyber recovery plan is essential for achieving modern cyber security resilience. This proactive approach, often guided by information governance advisory services, is critical for maintaining business operations and preserving customer trust. It goes beyond traditional backups by preparing a business to respond to and recover from an attack with confidence, protecting the organisation's reputation in the event of a significant cyber incident.

Yes, recovering from a ransomware attack without paying the ransom is achievable with a proper cyber recovery plan. The ability to do so depends on having clean, isolated, and immutable backups of your critical data and applications. A proactive data protection strategy is the most effective way to counter these threats. It shifts an organization's position from being a victim to being prepared for a recovery event.

• An effective recovery depends on secure, offsite solutions like Iron Cloud Cyber Recovery as a Service that include logically air-gapped data protection, meaning that backup data is physically and logically disconnected from the production network.
• The recovery plan must include processes to identify ransomware and completely remove ransomware from all affected systems before restoring any data from a clean source.
• Regularly testing your data restoration procedures is vital to confirm that your backups are viable and that your response team is prepared to execute the recovery plan.

Ultimately, the capacity to recover is the direct result of a robust data protection solution. This approach builds the cyber resilience needed to withstand an attack and protect data privacy. By investing in a comprehensive strategy before an incident occurs, a business can confidently restore its operations, maintain data integrity, and avoid the significant financial and reputational costs associated with paying a ransom.

To minimize downtime and data loss, a business must combine proactive data protection measures with a rapid response plan. The central principle is having a clean, verified copy of data, particularly for vital records storage, in a secure, isolated location. This preparation allows for immediate restoration activities to begin as soon as the production environment is secured, reducing the overall impact on operations and protecting your most critical information.

• Implement automated backups to a secure, air-gapped location to create a logical and physical barrier between your recovery data and network-based threats.
• Develop a clear, tested incident response plan that specifies the actions required for recovering a server after a ransomware attack has been identified.
• Consider using contract services from a third-party provider (3PP) that specializes in cyber recovery to gain access to expert support and advanced infrastructure.

A well-executed data protection strategy is fundamental to business continuity and achieving cyber security resilience. By preparing for a worst-case scenario, an organisation can significantly reduce the operational and financial impact of an attack. This preparation helps to protect revenue, reputation, and customer trust. It enables the business to get its operations back online quickly and securely following a disruptive event.

Data security and data privacy are related but separate disciplines within a data protection strategy. Data security refers to the technical controls and protective measures used to defend data against unauthorized access and theft. It focuses on preventing breaches from external threats and internal misuse. In essence, it is the framework of tools and policies that guard your information and infrastructure.

• Data security measures include technologies like encryption, network firewalls, access controls, and secure backup solutions designed to safeguard data integrity.
• Data privacy, on the other hand, governs how personal data is collected, processed, stored, and shared, defining the rights of individuals over their own information.
• Achieving data privacy compliance means adhering to regulations like GDPR and CCPA, which set strict rules for handling personally identifiable information.

A complete data protection strategy, often managed through a central Policy Center, must address both privacy and security. It is possible to have strong data security measures in place without adhering to data privacy principles. However, data privacy cannot be achieved without strong data security. For example, protecting data from a ransomware attack is a security function, while managing customer information according to legal standards is a privacy function.