Five Reasons Endpoint Agents Do Not Offer Enough Protection on AWS
Security and operations have always relied on agents for threat detection, backups, vulnerability analysis, and more. Endpoint agents are widely used in securing IT environments, but deploying, updating, and managing them can be difficult. In cloud environments, the complexity increases as IT teams may only control some deployed workloads (due to Zero Trust), requiring constant […]
Five Reasons to Enhance Amazon EBS Snapshots
Many companies rely on Amazon EBS snapshots for backup and disaster recovery, but despite their power, they have limitations. Here’s why you need a cyber recovery approach. Conventional snapshots have long been a critical component of backup and disaster recovery. However, these backups also represent static points in time, and cyber threats are anything but […]
Threatware vs. ransomware: Understanding the various forms of malicious software
When people think of malicious software, computer viruses are often the first thing that come to mind, but ransomware is a far more common threat. Terms like ‘threatware’, ‘malware’ and ‘ransomware’ are often used interchangeably, but there are important differences. Understanding these differences is important not only for knowing what you’re up against, but also […]
Why You Need a Ransomware Focused Backup Strategy for the Cloud
While vendors like AWS provide tools for increasing your security posture, protecting against ransomware requires more than standard EBS snapshots. Every day, IT leaders must prepare themselves for both new and existing threats that have the potential to severely disrupt mission-critical business operations. Ransomware is one of those threats, and it’s posing a serious risk […]
How Elastio Protects Your Data In Streaming Architectures
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) is a popular distributed event store and stream-processing platform many companies use to process data. To ensure fault tolerance, replication, and mirroring are used, but these technologies don’t protect against data loss caused by processing errors or application failures. These cases may severely impact a company’s operation and […]
Why Today’s Platforms Require Modern Data Protection Strategies
Monolithic data lakes are no longer the single source of truth in an enterprise, leaving prescriptive data protection tools failing to keep up. Today’s environments have data distributed across many locations. The trend towards serverless, cloud-agnostic microservices requires a new approach to data protection. Applications are becoming more complex and touch many pieces of data […]
Using Elastio To Protect Our SaaS Application – A Proof Of Concept
DevOps teams are increasingly responsible for software as a service (SaaS) decisions to solve specific problems for business operations. SaaS aims to meet these demands by providing turnkey solutions for CRM, ERP, and CMS processes. While SaaS platforms may be designed for privacy, many fail to provide adequate capabilities for data governance or data retention […]
