- Immutable backup storage is the best ransomware protection
- Research shows that backups are almost always aimed at ransomware attacks
- Ransomware is already increasing in 2025
Ransomware attacks in the first quarter of 2025 establish new records, 84% in the same period of 2024.
In addition, ransomware is often spoken as an attack that companies should expect to be beaten, with two thirds of organizations that experience an attack in the last two years.
But not everything is fatality and sadness, since the new investigation of the object of the support storage supplier shows for the first time that 81% of IT decision makers agree that immutable support storage is the best ransomware protection.
Segmentation, zero trust and immutable storage
Although having a 3-2-1 support strategy is a beginning when it comes to ransomware protection, the first investigation of the object also reveals that 96% of organizations that have suffered a ransomware attack in the last two years saw their data backup copies directed as part of at least one attack, with one in ten seeing their backup storage directed in each attack.
While there is a general consensus that immutable support storage is probably the best way to protect against ransomware, only 59% of organizations really implement this form of storage, and only 58% have multiple copies of their data in separate locations. In addition to this, 61% of respondents believe that IT safety hardening offers sufficient protection against ransomware attacks.
Object first recommends for companies to adopt a non -compliance mentality, and attach it with zero confidence principles and storage of immutable backups. To do this, companies should segment their networks to minimize the potential radius for explosion of an attack, together with the use of authentication mechanisms for records, such as multifactor authentication and identity access management practices. In addition, each user must only have access to the files and applications you need for their specific workload.
Immutable backup storage helps protect against ransomware attacks storing data in a way that cannot be modified or deleted. Traditionally, these have been hard drives or other storage media that are used to make a data backup and then stored in an environment ‘obtained by air’ that has no connection with the outside world. However, with booming cloud services, immutable cloud storage is now also an option.
