Iron Cloud Secure Offline Storage (SOS) ransomware recovery

Use cold storage to protect data against ransomware

Business challenge

Ransomware attacks are no longer something you just read about; these events are happening far too often. To evolve with the ever-expanding security risks, IT leaders need to rethink how to protect growing archives of data as well as the hardware and systems used to manage it.

But, storing all of your data in the cloud is expensive, especially since most data is inactive. A cold storage option lets you easily move a gold copy of your data — from the cloud or spinning disk — offline to cost-effective, air-gapped tape where it is safe from ransomware attacks and, if disaster strikes, can be used to recover.

What if you could

• Increase data security and protect against from ransomware
• Follow best practices for data backup and archiving while also reducing costs, complexity and risk
• Modernize data protection for long-term retention and compliance

Iron Cloud Secure Offline Storage

Because it can be difficult to isolate data on your own, Iron Mountain’s Iron Cloud Secure Offline Storage (SOS) is an ultra-low cost, fully-managed solution for inactive data that helps you create a gold copy of your data so it can be protected against ransomware and other cybersecurity threats.

Offline data is safely kept in a climate-controlled vault, physically isolated from unsecured networks and quickly recoverable based on SLAs. This cold storage approach also decreases your storage costs and ensures long-term archival data compliance, while retaining options for fast cloud-based retrieval whenever needed. If you do have to respond to a ransomware attack, this offline, gold copy of your data can serve as an uncorrupted data recovery point.

With our Vault Lock option, you can also leverage multi-factor authentication for offsite data retrieval to ensure ultimate protection. This prevents un-authorized data access, even if credentials for your backup application have been compromised.