Malware & Ransomware Recovery - Zerto

Preventing Ransomware Isn’t Always Possible — But Mitigating the Damage Is

Detects in seconds and recover in minutes, at scale, to a state seconds before an attack. Only Zerto can do that.

Recovery is the Cornerstone of Ransomware Resilience 

Understand the fundamentals of ransomware resilience and see how Zerto enables you to protect your business and establish a recovery plan. 

Ransomware Attacks Grow in Severity and Scale  

Preventing ransomware is no longer enough. Increasingly sophisticated malware can slip through your defenses, encrypt your critical data, and cripple your business. With data now in disparate locations and workloads — and in the hands of more users than ever — rapid detection and recovery is key when an attack gets through. After all, no organization is immune from an attack. A study from IDC found that

  • 79% of those surveyed activated a disaster response
  • 83% experienced data corruption from an attack
  • Nearly 60% experienced uncoverable data

Unlike backup solutions, only Zerto’s continuous data protection (CDP) technology mitigates costly risks like data loss, downtime, and disruptive recovery testing. 

Take the Stress Out of Ransomware Recovery 

Dramatically mitigate the risks and impact of cyberattacks by having the right ransomware strategy in place.

Detect encryption within seconds and recover corrupted applications and data within minutes of initial infection with Zerto’s automated restores.

Why Zerto for Ransomware Resilience

Cyberattacks Survival Kit

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Zerto real-time ransomware detection diagram

Zerto Real-Time Detection

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Real-Time Ransomware Detection in Seconds

Using Zerto’s continuous data protection engine, with its always-on replication and journaling technology, data encryption from a ransomware attack can be detected within seconds. Real-time alerts can send incident response teams into action to isolate and mitigate the attack and begin the recovery process. 

Don't wait for the next backup to detect ransomware

Real-time detection not only alerts you faster than competing solutions but tags checkpoints in the recovery journal to help you pinpoint when the attack began and recover data in a good state to a point seconds before encryption.  

Reduce the cost and impact of a ransomware attack by detecting it more quickly and recovering more quickly with real-time detection.  

Zerto Real-Time Ransomware Detection

Gorilla Guide to Real-Time Ransomware Detection and Recovery

Ransomware Recovery in Minutes, At Scale

Leverage Zerto’s continuous data protection, with its always-on replication and journaling technology, to recover entire sites and applications at scale, with only seconds of data loss — and resume operations. 

Recover to a State Seconds Before an Attack

With just a few clicks, recover your multi-VM applications to a point in time just seconds prior to an attack. Applications and all their VMs are recovered as one single, crash-consistent unit.  

Using built-in orchestration and automation, you can easily failover an entire site — without disruption.  

How to Recover from Ransomware

Traditional vs. Zerto Backup

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Example Recovery Report for a Zerto Virtual Protection Group

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Lower Risk with Instant, Non-disruptive Testing 

Malware hackers use more sophisticated tactics each day, so testing your data protection solution regularly is crucial. Gain confidence by frequently testing both failover and recovery quickly – at any time, with full compliance reporting, and without disruption to your production environment. 

Explore Zerto’s Automated Disaster Recovery Testing Abilities

Rapid Air-Gapped Recovery with the Cyber Resilience Vault

Achieve the ultimate last line of ransomware resilience with the Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault. The offline, locked down vault combines Zerto’s award-winning recovery software with the power of HPE Alletra storage, HPE ProLiant servers, and HPE Aruba networking. The Cyber Resilience Vault uses isolated, air-gapped, zero trust architecture with immutable data copies to ensure rapid recovery when all else fails. 

Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault 

Zerto Analytics

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Zerto Analytics

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Intelligent Insights with Zerto Analytics

Built-in intelligent dashboards and reports help you to spot trends, analyze unusual traffic, and forecast infrastructure requirements to support your ransomware resilience initiatives. 

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Recover Confidently with Immutable Data Copies

Immutable data copies are untouchable by ransomware so hackers can’t encrypt or deleted your data in an attack. Recover your data confidently after an attack with Zerto’s built-in immutability with:  

  • Immutable data copies that can be stored within Microsoft Azure Blob Storag
  • Microsoft Azure and AWS S3-compatible storage as a destination for immutable data copies  
  • Zerto Backup for SaaS for offsite immutable backups of Azure Active Directory, a critical component for recovering quickly from ransomware  

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Ransomware Recovery Scenarios with Zerto

In this mini-series, see how Zerto’s flexibility unlocks multi-cloud recovery of files, VMs, or entire applications no matter how severe the ransomware attack. 

  • Recovery After File Encryption
  • Recovery After VM Encryption
  • Recovery After Application Infection
  • Recovery After Site Infection
  • Recovery After Multi-Site Infection
Recovery After File Encryption

Ransomware Recovery After File Encryption

The first in a series on ransomware recovery with Zerto, this video looks at a small-scale attack that has encrypted files and folders on a VM and discusses how Zerto can get you out of ransomware jail using instant file restores.

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Scenario #1: Ransomware Recovery After File Encryption

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(2 min 29 sec)

Recovery After VM Encryption

Ransomware After VM Encryption

The second in a series on ransomware recovery with Zerto, this video looks at an attack that has compromised an entire VM and discusses how Zerto can get you out of ransomware jail using instant VM restores.

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Scenario #2: Ransomware Recovery After VM Encryption

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(1 min 50 sec)

Recovery After Application Infection

Ransomware Recovery After Application Infection

The third in a series on ransomware recovery with Zerto, this video looks at an attack that has infected all VMs that comprise a multi-VM app stack and how Zerto can get you out of ransomware jail using orchestrated failovers to a peer site.

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Scenario #3: Ransomware Recovery After Application Infection

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(2 min 49 sec)

Recovery After Site Infection

Ransomware Recovery After Site Infection

The fourth in a series on ransomware recovery with Zerto, this video looks at an attack that has compromised the infrastructure at all on-premises sites and how Zerto can get you out of ransomware jail using orchestrated failovers to a cloud DR site.

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Scenario #4: Ransomware Recovery After Site Infection

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(2 min 35 sec)

Recovery After Multi-Site Infection

Ransomware Recovery After Multi-Site Infection

The fifth and final in a series on ransomware recovery with Zerto, this video looks at an attack that has fully infected all on-premises and cloud infrastructure and how Zerto can get you out of ransomware jail using portable immutable copies that can be re-attached to any new or existing Zerto deployment.

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Scenario #5: Ransomware Recovery After Multi-Site Infection

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(2 min 53 sec)

Key Benefits of Zerto for Ransomware Resilience

Detect malicious encryption within seconds of it starting 

Rewind your systems to the last point in time before the infection struck 

Recover all your critical systems within minutes, with only a few clicks of a button 

Perform non-disruptive failover tests at any time, boosting confidence that you can bring the business back online immediately 

Restore entire applications , databases, or individual files with consistency and granularity

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