Ransomware on Catalogic Software

Understanding GuardMode: Enhanced Ransomware Protection for Backups in 2025

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Ransomware attacks now take an average of 7-8 days to detect, and by then, your backup files may already be compromised. GuardMode from Catalogic changes this by monitoring your data before it gets backed up, catching threats early and helping you restore only the affected files instead of rolling back entire systems.

If you’re a backup administrator or IT professional responsible for data protection, this guide will show you how GuardMode works, what features it offers, and how it can fit into your existing backup strategy. You’ll learn about its detection methods, recovery options, and practical benefits in about 10 minutes.

Can Your Budget Handle Ransomware? Top 11 SLED Data Protection Challenges

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Professionals in State, Local, and Educational (SLED) circles are in a tough spot. They’ve got to keep their data safe under a tight budget, battling againstcostly and stormy cyber threats. It’s a complex battlefield, no doubt. This post lists the 11 biggest challenges SLED organizations are facing right now when it comes to protecting their precious information. We’re talking about the must-tackle zones that need smart moves and sharp strategies to keep sensitive data under lock and key.

Ransomware Threats in 2024: SMB Cybersecurity

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

**As we navigate through 2024, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are defending against an increasingly intricate and technicalransomware threat landscape. Gone are the days when human error was the primary vulnerability. Today, ransomware attacks have morphed into a sophisticated arsenal of tools that exploit technical vulnerabilities, shifting the cybersecurity battleground for SMBs. **

Ransomware in 2024: The Evolution of Cyberattacks

Historically, human error was often the weakest link in cybersecurity, with social engineering tactics like phishing being the primary vector for ransomware attacks. Today, the cyber threat landscape has transformed.

How GuardMode Ransomware Detection Secures Your Backup Solution

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

A backup strategy in place is essential for protecting your data against a ransomware attack. However, relying solely on backups is not enough to ensure complete protection from continuously more sophisticated risks.

The thing to remember is that backups can be an effective defense against ransomware only if they are done regularly and stored securely. Regular backups ensure that you have the most recent versions of your data available in case of an attack. Storing backups securely, such as on an offline or off-site location, can prevent the ransomware from accessing and encrypting them. Remember the 3-2-1 rule!

Real-Life Ransomware Attacks and How GuardMode Helps to Mitigate the Damage

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

According to Statista reports, total enterprise data volume was estimated to increase significantly, rising from approximately 1 petabyte to 2.02 petabytes, which represents an average annual growth of 42.2% (Expected enterprise data volume by location 2022 | Statista ). It’s important to note that the majority of this data will be stored in internally managed data centers.

This is a lot of enterprise data. With the fast pace of cloud storage adoption, that is in some cases entirely transparent to the end user, we don’t even realize how much data we collect … and how much we have to protect.

Ensuring the Data Integrity of your Backups with GuardMode

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Case for Ensuring Data Integrity

While writing a long term paper, I accidentally overwrote and replaced a long passage with a single character – the unintended consequence of a Select All and an accidental keyboard press. I didn’t realize that a good portion of my paper was gone until I went back to proofread it, and I had to go back through multiple versions only to discover that the error had been saved in those versions as well. While it took me another couple of hours to rewrite the section, it taught a valuable of lesson in that just because you have a saved copy, the data contained within it may not be the data you expect or want.

DPX 4.9 Adds Proactive Ransomware Shield for Linux and Improves Quality of Alerts for Backup Admins

Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce the release of Catalogic DPX 4.9, where we continue to build upon our commitment to providing one of the most cyber resilient data protection and backup coverage matrices for private, public, and hybrid-cloud environments. This release adds to our industry leading ransomware recovery and cyber resilience features by building on the DPX GuardMode for Windows capability made available in DPX 4.8.1.

GuardMode provides proactive monitoring for early detection and notification of suspicious activity along with identifying and enabling the recovery of any affected data. Before DPX 4.9, this feature was limited to Windows, but DPX 4.9 now offers GuardMode for Linux servers and Samba shares. In addition, backup administrators can now benefit from increased quality of alerts, where GuardMode measures the level of file entropy and compares known magic signatures on files suspected to be impacted. GuardMode uses active, live forensic techniques instead of analyzing backup data that lags security incidents by several hours, days, and even weeks.

Active Ransomware Protection for Your Backup and Recovery Team

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Catalogic DPX GuardMode, a new free capability announced in July 2022, provides early detection of ransomware. Combined with the comprehensive workload coverage of DPX and instant recoveries, backup and storage teams using DPX GuardMode will be among the best prepared to recover from a cyberattack. DPX GuardMode is complementary to endpoint and edge protection, monitoring file shares and file system behavior, even over the network, instead of relying on a specific binary fingerprint. GuardMode maintains, and regularly updates over 4000 known ransomware threat patterns, and assesses affected files. Backing up this extensive forensic layer of protection are honeypots as a deception layer to catch ever-evolving types of ransomware strains. GuardMode increases confidence in ransomware detection while identifying and enabling recovery of only the affected data.

DPX 4.8.1 Builds on Cyber Resilience with Proactive Early Detection

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce the release of Catalogic DPX 4.8.1, where we have taken a major step forward to enable our DPX customers to be amongst the best prepared to recovery from a cyberattack. This release builds on our foundational ransomware recovery and cyber resilience features to add a ground breaking new capability called DPX GuardMode, that provides proactive monitoring for early detection and notification of suspicious activity along with identifying and enabling the recovery of any affected data.

Recommendations From FBI Cyber Division on How to Reduce Risk from Ransomware Attacks

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Ransomware continues to be a growing threat in 2022 given cybercriminals are constantly innovating and wreaking havoc within businesses. Worryingly the fiscal impact of a ransomware attack has more than doubled, increasing from $761,106 in 2020 to $1.85 million in 2021. This is due, in part, to the move by attackers to more advanced and complex targeted attacks that are harder to recover from. And in mid-sized organizations in thirty countries across the globe, 37% of organizations experienced a ransomware attack in the last 12 months.

Get Ransomware Protection for Enterprise Backups with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage

Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The importance of cloud object storage is growing increasingly every day. It is critical to have a solution that you can rely on that is scalable, secure, and affordable. Now, with ransomware proactively targeting and removing backup data, cloud storage is even more important for providing protection from ransomware for critical datasets like your backups.

Catalogic is pleased to partner with Backblaze to create a robust data protection solution that provides our DPX customers with the flexibility and comfort that their backup datasets are safe and secure from ransomware, and always accessible for recovery and compliance. So, what is DPX, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, and how do they work together? Below we will discuss those points, some of the benefits of the two solutions and we will also show you a high-level overview of the solution as well.

Catalogic DPX 4.8 Enhances Backups for Virtualization, Cloud Storage, and Ransomware Data Protection

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce the availability of Catalogic DPX 4.8.0, our next major release that enhances agentless backups for virtual environments, expands cloud archiving, and provides immutability for compliance and ransomware data protection. First, please note that DPX did not use an Apache log4j library with the remote code execution vulnerability. However, we have decided out of an abundance of caution, to remove log4j from the supported versions of DPX to eliminate any further vulnerabilities from this library. For more information, please see How to Remove the log4j Library from DPX.

Combatting Ransomware with Secure Backup and Recovery in an Instant

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Ransomware is a growing threat that continues to wreak havoc within businesses as cybercriminals constantly innovate in terms of how they are executing attacks. One of the latest trends being seen is that attackers are proactively targeting and removing backup data. This is because if they encrypt or remove an organization’s backup data, then they have significantly enhanced the likelihood of the ransom being paid.

If backup data is one of the key targets, why do we see so many updates from backup and storage vendors on their ransomware protection? It’s because we all see the impact ransomware is having and we want to put businesses in a position where they can quickly recover from an attack without paying the ransom. Leaving your backup and storage infrastructure in the same security state as it was years ago means that you have a large attack surface with little likelihood that data recovery will be an option if you are hit with ransomware.

Survive and Recover from Ransomware Attacks with Data Backups

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Cybercriminals love nothing more than infiltrating a network, accessing your data, and encrypting it so it can no longer be accessed until a ransom is paid. Typically, the longer the data is encrypted and unavailable, the larger the financial impact. These criminals may even sell the data outright.

Attacks are becoming more frequent and sophisticated. A ransomware attack study from Ivanti found that of 1,000 enterprises IT professionals across the globe, 58% had worked for organizations that had suffered a ransomware attack in the last year! Sadly, cybercriminals have become an almost unstoppable force.