Cloud Migration is one of the most important factors that makes the organization robust enough to handle failures, unavailability, downtime whilst providing speed, cost savings, productivity, performance and security. Cloud architecture provides on-demand delivery of IT resources without the need of owning and maintaining physical data centers and servers, hence reducing costs. Migrating the existing servers onto the cloud will not only help organizations eliminate the costly hardware, servers but also provide best security with pay-as-you-go pricing.
V3iT Consulting, Inc. is a cloud services provider which supports all three public clouds including Azure, GCP and AWS. They offer multi-cloud architecture. Their reference architectures expedite the cloud migration. They host systems for various public sector customers at their own data centers. They have been of service to Fortune 50 and its subsidiaries where they migrated their SAP instances to HANA and other databases in private cloud, Azure, AWS, GCP environments as well as Hybrid Cloud. They provide harmony between the three cloud technologies so that the end-users have a seamless experience.
V3iT provides a disaster recovery plan to provide the critical business applications. Every organization gets business continuity (high availability), disaster recovery for most IT systems. But today most failures are not business continuity or disaster recovery related instead, they are more targeted attacks such as malware, ransomware attacks, trojans, denial-of-service (DoS), distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), hacks, cross-site scripting, SQL injections, phishing, man-in-the-middle attacks and various others.
V3iT delivers business continuity after such attacks as well which is something unique when compared to the industry standard deliverables in case of occurrence of any attacks. V3iT’s VMEGHA provides an air-gapped backup model on the cloud which helps businesses jump back to being actively up and running after such attacks.
Air gap backups are the ultimate defense mechanism that makes a huge difference in the disaster recovery strategy. The backups are placed behind the air gaps and air gaps function as a protective layer for the data in this disaster recovery mechanism. Air gapping protects from intrusion as a device that is not connected to the organization’s network cannot be attacked in isolation. So, if air gaps exist between devices in a network, then only physical attacks can cause a problem and the network is safe from any other attacks.
Introducing VMEGHA:
The 3-2-1 backup rule strategy in disaster management is followed by most organizations. This strategy is also vulnerable because the backed-up copies might get compromised. V3iT provides the 3-2-1-1 backup methodology where the extra one represents an air-gapped copy of data that is secure from all attacks. Air gapping is part of the holistic approach to data and network security from advanced attacks.
VMEGHA leverages the off-site and off-line aspects of data existence. It creates a copy of data that cannot be destroyed by ransomware or wiper or any hacker. They cannot destroy and encrypt the business-critical data since they cannot access and reach it. At the root level what happens is that the individual file objects are locked and are immutable which cannot even be altered by mother of all root accounts until a chosen time period has passed.
Often the regular and more obvious backups are used but in cases of extremity when everything goes down, the air gapped backups come to the rescue and restore the network systems completely.
Advanced cyber-attacks have become a big business and the frequency of attacks is rising every year. Studies report that the cyber-attacks industry value will soon hit $6 trillion in 2021. This is a huge financial threat to most organizations. To ensure protection against catastrophic IT crises and maintain business continuity, organizations need to shift to cloud based recovery backups.