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Tags: Disaster Recovery
Author: 11:11 Systems
Date: March 24, 2017

Disaster Recovery – Your Insurance Policy for Ransomware

Ransomware

Date: March 24, 2017

Author: 11:11 Systems

Editor’s Note: As of January 2022, iland is now 11:11 Systems, a managed infrastructure solutions provider at the forefront of cloud, connectivity, and security. As a legacy iland.com blog post, this article likely contains information that is no longer relevant. For the most up-to-date product information and resources, or if you have further questions, please refer to the 11:11 Systems Success Center or contact us directly.

 

Years ago, in a time called 1996, a gentleman by the name of James Clark became frustrated with the patient care experience. He lamented the fact that his patient information from one doctor was often not available to another.

He realized in that bygone time, his information could be networked and shared to reduce time, errors, and costs for patients, insurance companies, healthcare providers and processors. He took his idea and began building what we know today as Web MD.

Webinar –  Watch On Demand now. 

As records became more and more digitized, the benefits slowly started to appear. Costs were able to be monitored and reduced, billing was tracked with more efficiency, and even more importantly— the time patients spent searching for and gathering records had diminished. The networking of systems combined with the consolidation of data and information allowed healthcare organizations to embrace a new digitized world!

Then, in 2012, the very first incident of ransomware infecting a healthcare entity occurred. Surprisingly, it hardly even made a ripple. It was so anomalous that industry professionals thought it must be a fluke. Then it happened again. And it happened again, and yet again. By the end of 2015, if you were in healthcare IT and not actively thinking about and mitigating ransomware you were behind the curve.

What makes the ransomware threat worse is not just the fact that the infection occurred in what was supposed to be a controlled environment but that it LOUDLY INSISTS that you pay attention to it. The encryption of files, VMs, and even entire environments coupled with an aggressively prominent window demanding bitcoins to remove it became something even worse – a public relations fiasco. So, to add insult to injury, you now have an environment that is infected, encrypted with keys you don’t own, displaying a notice on infected machines to all staff— and worse still, you have to report a breach, all the while trying to figure out if you should pay this ransom.

Don’t. Don’t pay the ransom!

I know that is a simple statement and seems flippant, but instead of paying, take the time to ensure you are resilient beforehand! Regulations around healthcare stipulate that backups should be maintained, but have you ever tried to restore from backups when the whole server environment is down? Backups are great for audits and holding data that should be in cold storage. But, the reality of our times is that backups are not going to achieve any meaningful Recovery Point Objective (RPO) or Recovery Time Objective (RTO). Since backups are snapshots of time, you may end up with a very large pool of lost transactional data.

Solutions need to be faster. This is where using Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) comes into play. With DRaaS and a cloud failover, you are not only replicating in real-time but snapshotting your entire environment along the way. If you find that your primary site has become infected, you can quickly failover to your hot DR site (all the while ensuring your compliance! Sorry to interject, but it is our job). If you happened to have introduced the ransomware into your DR environment, you can revert it back to the point where the infection was not active and take steps to remediate it.

Disaster Recovery is not just your failover for operations— it has become your insurance policy for surviving a ransomware attack. It reduces the loss in time, efforts by IT to restore your systems, publicity of an attack, and helps mitigate any breach that may occur.

We are one of the most advanced cloud companies in the world that specializes in healthcare customers. We engineer and design to HIPAA and HITRUST standards, and those are baked in to our Disaster Recovery offering using Zerto. What that means is you not only can ensure that you remain compliant when you fail over, but you fail over quickly. How quickly? Quickly.

At the end of the day, what it comes down to is this: don’t bet on backups. Review your continuity and disaster recovery plan’s RTO and RPOs and test to see if you can achieve them restoring from backup. Then, give some thought to 11:11’s Disaster Recovery.

Watch the webinar to see how we can help mitigate the threat of ransomware!

Categories: Cloud Backup, Cloud Compliance, DRaaSBy 11:11 SystemsMarch 24, 2017
Tags: Disaster Recovery
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