Protect Cold Data at 80% Less Cost
Cut ransomware costs with cold file tiering to immutable storage.
- Transparently tier cold and dormant files to object storage with immutable object lock retention for robust ransomware defense.
- Preserve file metadata and access paths so users and apps see data normally, even after tiering.
- Create a logically isolated recovery copy physically separated from primary storage and backups
Shrink Ransomware Attack Surface by 80%
Minimize ransomware exposure by removing cold data from active storage and backup footprints, reducing the volume attackers can encrypt.
- Automatically identify and move 70-80% of unstructured file data that hasn’t been accessed in over a year.
- Unlike storage tiering which leaves cold files accessible from NAS, Komprise offloads entire files from the NAS attack surface and leaves just links for transparency.
- Komprise hybrid tiering at the file level is transparent to the snapshot mechanisms, so your tamperproof snapshots continue to work.
Cut Active Data Management Costs, Enhance Your Ransomware Protection Posture
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Eliminate the Need for Costly Recovery Solutions
Cut ransomware backup and disaster recovery costs by tiering inactive data and enabling faster, affordable recovery without expensive appliances.
- Reduce storage and backup infrastructure costs by removing cold data from traditional DR and backup cycles.
- Recover ransomware-affected data quickly using native cloud access with intact metadata: no costly rebuilds.
- Support retention, versioning, and compliance requirements with object storage that prevents deletion or tampering.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why is it Important to Protect Unstructured Data from Ransomware?
Unstructured data, especially NAS file data, represents the largest and fastest-growing ransomware attack surface in the enterprise. File shares contain massive volumes of inactive data that remain online, writable, and highly exposed. Attackers specifically target NAS because a single compromise can encrypt or exfiltrate millions of files at once. Reducing the amount of unstructured data on primary storage dramatically shrinks the attack surface and limits ransomware blast radius.
How Does Immutable Storage Help with Ransomware Protection and Recovery?
Immutable object storage prevents data from being modified or deleted, even by administrators or attackers, for a defined retention period. By tiering cold unstructured data to immutable storage, Komprise creates a logically isolated, ransomware-resilient copy that can be accessed directly for recovery. This enables faster restores and avoids paying ransom or relying on complex backup rebuilds.
How does Komprise Data Tiering Reduce Ransomware Costs?
The rising cost of ransomware defense, especially for petabytes of unstructured data, is a major roadblock for organizations. By effectively eliminating cold data from the attack surface of ransomware, a Hybrid Tiering approach protects the cold data without additional copies. So you get additional protection while lowering costs. Hybrid Tiering at the file level protects your cold data from ransomware attacks while eliminating the need for extra copies of the data.
Does Komprise offer a Ransomware Solution?
Unstructured file data may not always be critical, but that does not mean it is immune to ransomware attacks. In fact, it can be more vulnerable to attack because the surface area is bigger: billions of files generated that are accessed by many different applications and users.
Komprise Intelligent Data Management is part of a multi-layered ransomware defense solution, helping to shrink +70% of the ransomware attack surface thus improving the defense posture and reducing costs by 70% across all on-premises and cloud storage solutions.
How does Komprise Reduce Ransomware Risk Across Unstructured Data?
Komprise helps organizations dramatically shrink their ransomware attack surface by addressing the biggest security blind spot: cold, inactive unstructured data that often makes up 70% of an organization’s footprint. This data is often unprotected, widely accessible, and can go months before a breach is detected, making it a prime target for attackers. Komprise protects this cold data in three key ways:
- Shrinks the ransomware attack surface: Komprise Intelligent Data Management tiers cold files off expensive primary storage and moves them to secure, immutable cloud object storage. This lowers risk and liability by reducing the amount of data exposed to attack.
- Preserves and supports tamperproof snapshots: Unlike traditional storage-tiering approaches, Komprise Transparent Move Technology (TMT) moves data at the file level, not the block level. This means your existing tamperproof snapshots remain intact, giving you reliable pre-attack recovery points. Read the Blocks vs. File Tiering White Paper.
- Adds cold data immutability for extra protection: By moving cold data into immutable cloud storage with versioning enabled, Komprise ensures attackers can’t access, alter, or encrypt that data, and you always have an untouched version available for restore.
The result? Up to a 70% reduction in ransomware risk and cost, while allowing organizations to concentrate premium security tools on the mission-critical data that truly needs them.
Eliminate Ransomware Incidents. Shrink The Attack Surface.
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