During tumultuous IT incidents such as the one we saw earlier this year that shut down airports and countless huge corporations reliant on Windows, we quickly learn that even the most discerning organizations can find themselves at the mercy of software vendors – in particular, cybersecurity software vendors.
And these software vendors can strive for excellence but can fail due to countless potential problems spawned by either accidental mistakes or intentional maliciousness. Either way, it’s a dangerous insider threat within a trusted vendor – proving that insider threats can come from both your own actual organization as well as the partners/vendors you depend upon to keep your business up and running.
And those problems can translate into lost business, extended downtime and reputational damage for customers who thought they chose the most fitting software vendor, but ended up, at least temporarily, with the short end of the stick.
Today’s ever-increasing dependence on a software supply chain that’s often made up of third-party code and continual updating processes makes both vendors and their customers highly vulnerable to both human error and intentional malice. Examples of notable software supply chain related attacks include those involving SolarWinds and Okta.
The combination of vulnerabilities (and malicious threats) both within software itself as well as the process to update it and keep it running makes it obvious that the answer to protecting your organizations is not to simply ADD another piecemeal layer of additional third-party managed software. Afterall, if it’s managed via agents that are deployed on your clients, it’s simply another layer of potential havoc that you don’t control and don’t manage.
A Foundational Answer from Within
ShieldCRS from Alchemi Data Management sits within your own network and creates the industry’s first-ever environment that enjoys a one-click remediation process, restoring an organization’s files to a pre-incident state.
Meaning, whether an organization experiences a software glitch, faulty update, or even a ransomware attack that encrypts data, ShieldCRS uses a secure data transfer that is confined within the server environment, minimizing exposure to external networks and reducing the risk of data breaches or unauthorized access during the process.
ShieldCRS sits in the network in front of the NAS and file servers. Here are some of the top reasons to choose an agentless system that sits in this location as your last defense against insider threats:
Easy Deployment – Since there’s no need to install software agents on devices, it’s generally easy to deploy. This greatly reduces the complexity and time associated with integrating it into an existing network.
Simplified Resilience – Overall operations aren’t impacted even during an attack since there’s no need to address agents/clients and you have the ability to quickly revert to a pre-attack state.
Decreased Overhead – Without agents running on endpoints, there is minimal impact on system performance. This helps preserve the resources of servers, endpoints, or other devices, avoiding potential slowdowns or resource drain.
Ongoing Scalability – Being agentless, the system is highly scalable, allowing organizations to quickly expand coverage to new devices or infrastructure without needing to install or configure additional software.
Organizations that have deployed ShieldCRS, including prominent government service providers, oil and gas providers, law firms and healthcare services companies, know that they have gained an unmatched peace of mind. They’re in control – not their software vendors or cyber attackers. Not only does ShieldCRS immediately identify a threat via unusual data access, but it immediately alerts staff who can easily isolate the threat.
Users are assured that data isn’t lost or held captive, and they’re always ready at a moment’s notice to revert to data that is trusted and ready to keep a business operating with unyielding resilience.
That’s a win-win for enterprises and their customers – not to mention cyber insurance companies that embrace an organization’s own internal ability to keep themselves free of the confines of a potentially dodgy software supply chain. ShieldCRS powerfully prepares an organization to turn any IT incident into a non-event.