Azure Backup Ransomware Protection for Hybrid Cloud Environments

Azure Backup is designed to protect your hybrid cloud environments from ransomware attacks by providing robust backup and recovery capabilities.

With Azure Backup, you can back up your on-premises data to Azure, and then recover it from there if needed.

Azure Backup integrates with Azure Security Center to provide threat protection and detection.

This integration helps to identify and alert you to potential security threats in your environment.

Azure Backup also provides a feature called "Azure Backup Recovery Services Vault" which allows you to store and manage your backups securely.

This vault provides a centralized location for managing your backups and recovering your data.

Azure Backup supports a wide range of workloads, including virtual machines, SQL servers, and file shares.

Ransomware protection is crucial to safeguard your Azure data. Cloud-native security and immutability for Azure SQL, Azure VMs, and Managed Disks, as well as Microsoft 365, can help keep your data safe.

Rubrik Polaris offers cloud-native protection for Azure Virtual Machines and Managed Disks without the need for persistent infrastructure running in your Azure Subscriptions. This means you can enjoy robust protection without added complexity.

Immutable snapshots of SQL Server databases are also available, providing an additional layer of security. This feature ensures that your data remains unchanged and tamper-proof.

The vendor customer support for Rubrik is top-notch, providing quick and effective solutions to any issues that may arise. This level of support gives you peace of mind and confidence in your data protection.

You can explore Rubrik for Azure VMs to protect your cloud data with VM recovery, compliance reporting, and air-gapped, immutable, access-controlled backup. This comprehensive solution helps you recover quickly and confidently in the event of a ransomware attack.

Azure Backup provides various capabilities to protect your backups, including built-in ransomware protection, application recovery, cloud archival, and data replication. This makes it easier to simplify cloud security and Azure backups.

Azure Backup offers ways to minimize changes on your existing network security setup, allowing you to run backups without making exceptions to your network firewall rules. For example, backup of Azure virtual machines takes place entirely over the Azure backbone network via the VM host.

Azure Backup classifies the security of your protected resources into four security levels: Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor. To achieve Excellent security, all backups must be protected against accidental deletion and ransomware attacks.

The security levels are determined by the state of security settings on your vaults, such as immutability, soft delete, and multi-user authorization. Here's a quick rundown of the security levels:

Network security is a top priority in the cloud, and Azure Backup has got you covered. It allows you to minimize changes to your existing network security setup, making it easy to run backups without compromising your security.

Azure Backup takes place entirely over the Azure backbone network, which means you don't need to make exceptions to your network firewall rules. This is a huge advantage, as it keeps your backups secure and efficient.

For workloads like SAP HANA and SQL servers running inside your Azure VMs, you can use private endpoints to use private IPs in your virtual networks for backups. This provides an additional layer of security and control over your backups.

Private endpoints for Backup are a great feature that can help you manage your backups more effectively.

Achieving hybrid cloud agility requires careful consideration of data protection and security. Cohesity's native integration with Azure provides a seamless backup experience, initially on-prem and later in the Azure cloud.

Cohesity's backup as a service was so effective that a customer was able to recover data much faster than expected, leading them to expand its use to virtual servers in the cloud.

The customer was particularly impressed with Cohesity's native integration with Azure, which provided a level of convenience and efficiency that couldn't be matched by other solutions.

By leveraging Cohesity's integration with Azure, businesses can achieve the agility they need to adapt to changing circumstances and stay ahead of the competition.

Here are some key benefits of hybrid cloud agility:

By adopting a hybrid cloud approach, businesses can unlock new levels of flexibility, scalability, and innovation, while also reducing costs and improving efficiency.

Protecting your data from ransomware is crucial, and Rubrik Polaris provides cloud-native protection for Azure Virtual Machines and Managed Disks without the need for persistent infrastructure running in your Azure subscriptions.

Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery provide multiple ways to control access to backups, such as through the use of proper RBAC roles and controlling access to Azure. This significantly reduces the chances of malicious or accidental destructive actions on your backups.

Immutability is a key feature in data protection, and Rubrik offers immutable snapshots of SQL Server databases. This ensures that your data remains safe and secure even in the event of a ransomware attack.

To assess the security of your backups, you can use the BCDR security posture, which classifies the security of your protected resources into security levels 'Excellent', 'Good', 'Fair', and 'Poor'. Improving the state of the security settings of the vault can help improve the security levels of the corresponding items.

Here's a breakdown of the BCDR security levels:

Your backup data is always encrypted at rest using industry-standard encryption measures, and during data transfer, all the data is transferred over secure TLS protocols with alternatives to prevent disruptions to your network security rules.

Azure Backup provides various security measures to protect your data from ransomware attacks.

To simplify cloud security and Azure backups, Rubrik offers built-in ransomware protection, application recovery, cloud archival, and data replication. This ensures that your backups are secure and can be recovered quickly in case of an attack.

Azure Backup also allows you to leverage identity management security features, such as multi-factor authentication, to authenticate and manage access to Azure resources centrally. This helps ensure that users are who they claim to be when accessing your backups and other resources.

To further improve security, Azure Backup provides various capabilities to add additional layers of protection to your backup data. This includes features like immutability, soft delete, and multi-user authorization, which can help protect against accidental deletion and ransomware attacks.

Here are the security levels of BCDR data across your estate, as classified by Azure Backup:

By implementing these security measures, you can significantly reduce the risk of overexposing access and malicious or accidental destructive actions on your backups.

You can protect Azure Virtual Machines, Managed Disks, and Azure SQL without needing persistent infrastructure running in your Azure subscriptions.

Azure Backup allows you to minimize changes to your network security setup, so you can run backups without making exceptions to your network firewall rules.

Backup of Azure virtual machines takes place entirely over the Azure backbone network, using the VM host, which means no changes are needed to your network setup.

Private endpoints can be used for backup of workloads like SAP HANA and SQL servers running inside your Azure VMs, and MARS agent backups, with private IPs in your virtual networks for backups.

Azure Active Directory provides a host of security features that can help authenticate and manage access to Azure resources centrally.

Leveraging identity management security features is crucial to ensure that users are who they claim to be when they access your backups and other resources. This can be achieved through multi-factor authentication, which adds an extra layer of security to prevent unauthorized access.

Using Azure Active Directory can minimize the risk of overexposing access to your backups, as it allows you to control who can access your backups and what actions they can perform.

Proper RBAC roles can be used to manage fine-grained access to all personnel who need to interact with your backups in different capacities. This ensures that each user has the necessary permissions to perform their tasks without exposing sensitive information.

Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery provide multiple ways to control access to your backups, including the use of proper RBAC roles and controlling access to Azure. This helps to reduce the chances of malicious or accidental destructive actions on your backups.

By using Azure Active Directory and RBAC roles, you can ensure that your backups are secure and only accessible to authorized personnel. This helps to maintain the integrity and confidentiality of your data, even in the event of a compromise in your production environment.

To ensure your backups are secure, you need to add additional layers of security to your backup data. Azure Backup provides various capabilities to help you do this.

It's essential to leverage identity management security features, such as multi-factor authentication, to ensure users are who they claim to be when accessing your backups and other resources.

You can use Azure Active Directory to authenticate and manage access to Azure resources centrally, reducing the risk of unauthorized access.

To improve the security of your backups, you can assess the security of your BCDR data across your estate using the BCDR security posture.

The BCDR security posture classifies the security of your protected resources into four security levels: Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor.

Here's a breakdown of the security levels:

To improve the security levels of your backups, you can enable immutability, soft delete, and multi-user authorization on your vaults.