Australian backup system with ransomware protection - by CyberX
Affordable disaster recovery for Australian small – medium businesses
Australian backup system with ransomware protection - by CyberX
Did you know that the cost of cybercrime alone in Australia was $29 Billion in 2020? A survey undertaken by the Australian Cyber Security Centre found 62% of the 1,763 small businesses that responded have been a victim of Cybercrime.
CyberX Backup and Replication provides reliable ransomware protection for backups stored locally and in the cloud.
Cyber-security countermeasures like staff training, e-mail screening, end-point protection, patch management, web filtering and the like are all worth doing; and will reduce your risk of a ransomware attack.
But a trusted and flexible backup system is your insurance policy for recovering data and resuming operations if all else fails.
- Backup for mixed environments (Windows, Linux)
- Immutable storage
- Automatic daily full system test restores to confirm the integrity of the backups
- 4-3-2 rule for backups (rather than 3-2-1)
- Air-Gapped backups
- Strong encryption for all backups
- Free 30 day trial
Have you thought about what would happen to your business if you were the victim of a ransomware attack?
If your backup solution is ransomware-safe, you’re in a good place.
If it’s not, you’re not.
Now is the time to ensure your business is safeguarded.
As a trusted service provider specialising in disaster recovery, I urge you to assess your backup system’s ransomware resilience.
Ask yourself:
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How often do we test server restores?Automatic daily full system test restores to confirm the integrity of the backups
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Are off-site backups verified regularly?Weekly verification of the off-site backupset
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Are our off-site backups read-only?Yes (also referred to as being ‘immutable’).
Many organizations do not have the expertise, time or budget to test their backups regularly, so they don’t. That is a huge risk.
Key features of the CyberX backup system
Backup Protection Against Ransomware
Backup for mixed environments
- Windows and Linux servers
Reliable Backups
- Create incremental backups for your physical and virtual servers.
- Automatic daily full system test restores to confirm the integrity of the backups
- Weekly verification of the off-site backupset.
Multiple Destinations
- Implement the 4-3-2 strategy (rather than 3-2-1) by storing backups
- on-site
- off-site
- off-site – but not accessible from your network (watch the video below for details).
Ransomware-Proof Backups
- Backups in cloud storage are immutable - provided as standard.
- Option to create air-gapped backups using detachable USB drives or NAS.
What is protected?
- Everything
- Your entire server
- The Operating System and all of your applications
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- Application objects
- Application data
- Your files
Recovery options if you experience a ransomware attack
- Restore server volumes to multiple recovery points (i.e. versioning).
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Restore servers into a sandbox environment A sandbox environment is an isolated virtual machine in which potentially unsafe software code can execute without affecting network resources or local applications.to perform malware analysis and remediation.
Managed Service
This makes the CyberX backup system ideal for organisations that don’t have a high-level of in-house backup or disaster recovery expertise.
CyberX is an Australian company
- We store all customer data in Sydney, Australia.
- CyberX is part of Zero Effort Networking, an Australian business established in 1996.
Advantages of CyberX’s Backup System Against Ransomware
Off-site Backups
- We automatically send backups off-site for more reliable protection against ransomware.
- This ensures that your server’s are recoverable without you even having to consider paying any ransom and without prolonged business downtime.
Test restore on a daily basis
- Each day, a full system test restore is automatically performed on the off-site backup to confirm that the backup can be restored.
- You have the option of receiving a daily e-mail showing that the system has been restored.
Minimize Downtime
- The CyberX backup system offers a variety of ransomware recovery options to recover your server if you experience a ransomware attack.
- We can restore server volumes to multiple recovery points (i.e. versioning).
- We can also restore servers into a sandbox environment to perform malware analysis and remediation.
4-3-2 rule for backups (rather than 3-2-1)
- There are 4 copies of your backups with the standard backup system:
- 2 copies on-site / local (for best daily performance during “normal” operations)
- 2 copies off-site / cloud (Immutable)
- 3 different types of media storage
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- External USB3 drives or NAS.
- Cloud backup – accessible from your network – backups are immutable.
- Cloud backup – not accessible from your network (watch the video to see how this works.
- 2 copies off-site / cloud (Immutable)
Immutability
- Immutability is the ability to ‘lock’ files, so that no one can make changes to the files.
- Cloud backups are protected from ransomware encryption and accidental modification with immutability.
Air-Gapped Backups
- Optionally, store a copy of your backups on a detached USB3 drive or NAS.
- These devices are disconnected from the CyberX network, when not in use, to provide an additional layer of security.
- Air-gapped backups provide an additional level of protection, as they are not accessible when they’re not connected to the network, which makes these devices even less susceptible to ransomware threats.
- Overview of Air-Gapped Backups implementation
Automatic Backup Verification
- The CyberX backup system is a managed service.
- This means that we monitor the backups to ensure that they’re performed.
- We verify your backups (both local / on-site and in the cloud / off-site).
- If an error is detected (an extremely rare event), CyberX support will investigate and resolve the error.
- Automatic daily full system test restores to confirm the integrity of the backups
Advanced Data Security
- Strong encryption is used for all backups.
- AES-256-bit encryption for the data at rest.
- SSL / TLS in-transit encryption.
How CyberX provides Ransomware Protection
Online Cyber-security Self-Assessment
Want to know whether your organisation’s Cyber Security Plan is best practice?
Proof our backup system works
Charles Glanville
Alleanza Architecture
We used to have a tape backup system in place. As a backup solution it was far from ideal as the tape drive did not have the capacity to backup all our data onto a single tape which meant that we had to implement a "selective" backup. Plus, on top of that because the tape had to be changed nightly, we generally missed at least one backup per fortnight. We never did a test restore of the whole system to verify that in the event of a 'disaster' we could rely on our backups to rebuild our system.
Gaby Peimer
Battery Energy Power Solutions
It is imperative that Battery Energy has a strong IT capability but the business is of a size where it is not commercially viable to maintain an in-house IT capability.
Battery Energy has been using the CyberX backup system for over 6 years for our off-site backup. The backup system has been reliable and has been able to restore files when needed.
Peter Morson
Morson Group
We have been working with Vaughan and his team at CyberX since our company opened in 2013.
Throughout this time Vaughan has been fantastic in working with us to provide our physical server and backup systems on-site and on the cloud. We have never lost any files and have always been able to recover any files from the backups which were needed to be recovered.
Amanda Levine
North City Group
Our business is in the advice sector and this means that having a reliable and secure backup of our client data is vital. We have been really pleased with the backup system that CyberX has provided us.
The installation was done remotely, so we didn’t have to do anything to set it up and there was no down time for us in terms of being able to use our computers. It is an automatic system and we have the peace of mind of knowing that the backups are transferred off-site automatically, without us having to do anything.
David Steed
Director
Gladwin Gray Chartered Accountants
As a Chartered Accountancy practice, our client’s data is key. While our computers can be replaced, if we were to lose our clients files that would be a disaster. So having a reliable backup of our client data is critical.
Prior to the CyberX backup system, we backed up to an on-site disk which I swapped off-site on a weekly basis. I was consistent with this practice, so the process worked, but over time it was tedious and there were times when I was away, where the disks wouldn’t be swapped until I returned. And while the backups were verified, it wasn’t feasible to do a test restore of the entire system.