Ransomware cyberattacks are on the rise, with thousands of companies being targeted each year – making them the fastest-growing cybercrime threat for businesses.
These threats are hard to detect. Too often, companies are blindsided and discover they are under attack when it is too late to defend themselves.
The best time to discover an attack is before it takes place. But is that even possible? And what does it have to do with storage monitoring?
Ransomware typically follows a pattern of growth visible within storage data:
Because they use Visual One Intelligence® for storage visibility, this company was surprised one morning to receive an email alert notifying them that early warning signs of potential ransomware were detected.
New data showed a sudden workload spike (isolated to a few LUNs) that was remaining high without explanation – the first three warning signs of ransomware.
The company was unaware of this activity and did not know what was causing the spike. As a result, they opened an immediate investigation.
Fortunately, the investigation revealed the source of the workload spike to be the result of a software installation error.
However, they were alarmed to learn that they would not have noticed the warning signs under their internal monitoring processes. As a result, relying on Visual One Intelligence®’s monitoring – including their user access auditing tool – became a significant part of their storage and security strategy.
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