Big-tech has made remarkable innovations in cybersecurity from the perspective of data protection by preempting and mitigating potential threats such as data leaks, data breaches, and phishing attacks. However, there are (fortunately fewer) occasions when the constantly evolving tactics of sophisticated ransomware operators can disarm even the most robust cybersecurity defenses. Luckily, even in such cases, best-in-class patented solutions designed for ransomware recovery can instantly initiate damage control and restore data.

Let’s explore the top 5 of these that are the ultimate cutting-edge solutions:

Acronis’ Instant Recovery Mechanism (Patent US10893749B2)

Acronis’ patented instant recovery mechanism revolutionizes ransomware recovery by playing a pivotal role in detection and restoration. Here’s a simplified overview of how this ultra-refined patented cybersecurity fights ransomware:

A Synergistic Solution

Acronis works best as a complementary layer when paired with existing ransomware solutions. It is designed to not interfere with pre-emptive defenses but integrate with them synergistically to simplify data recovery.

A peak combination of AI & ML

The solution uses AI and ML to build models that predict potential threats, counter ransomware activities both before and after an attack.

Powerful Tools for Ransomware Recovery

In the rare scenario in which malware infects a system, Acronis can decode the encryption keys used by the malware to cause the cyber attack. This decryption empowers the restoration of compromised data, eliminating the need to negotiate with ransomware operators.

Veeam’s Intelligent Data Replication (Patent US10789584B2)

Veeam’s patented solution elegantly enables organizations to replicate data across various storage systems and locations, enhancing functionality, reliability, and precision. If a ransomware attack occurs, the compromised data remains intact across networks unaffected by the cyber attack. The solution is built on the following premise and delivers on its promises in these ways:

Optimized & Autonomous

The system automates and monitors the data replication process in real time, ensuring that replication occurs within predefined timeframes and adheres to organizational policies and compliance.

Low-maintenance and scalable

The patented anti-ransomware solution has a high impact but requires low maintenance. Its key feature uses minimal bandwidth to perform essential functions like data duplication, compression, and throttling, ensuring that your network’s speed and efficiency remain uncompromised.

Resilient and trustworthy

The solution’s data replication protocol ensures automated retries once the system is up and running in case of network errors or downtimes. It also employs techniques like “Checksum verification” to ensure complete data transmission. In case of any errors, the solution uses automatic corrective measures to replicate the data in its original, intact form.

Accurate and Consistent

The patented solution ensures that all parts of the data remain unaltered from source to destination during transmission. Maintaining data sanctity also ensures that all stakeholders have a coherent and consistent picture of the data regardless of the source or location from which they access it.

Granular yet flexible

This well-designed solution, despite its inherent power to restore data in case of ransomware or cyber attack, is flexible enough to allow designated administrators to have a granular view of its operations. Based on their analysis, they can predetermine data scheduling and replication and arrive at policies that bridge the gap between data protection and organizational requirements. Moreover, its flexibility allows data transfer among different storage solutions, including cloud providers and on-premise storage.

Commvault’s Immutable Data Archiving (Patent US10846348B1)

Commvault’s patented immutable data archiving solutions offer robust protection against ransomware attacks by creating immutable copies of critical data. Translated, this entails storing essential data in a method that confers it with all-around protection from any modification, deletion, or tampering after it has been archived.

The stand-out features of this patented anti-ransomware tech include:

WORM Storage

No, we don’t mean any bugs (biological or technological 🙂 WORM here stands for “Write once, read many”. It describes the robust archiving process used by this patented tech. The archived data is only written once, but the user can read it several times. However, it cannot be modified, deleted or overridden in any other way whatsoever, making it immutable so that this worm is set in stone.

Data Authentication & Encryption

Immutable data is typically encrypted before archival to ensure its privacy and integrity. Moreover, the solution implements impenetrable authentication protocols. These protocols usually take the form of digital signatures or cryptographic hashes that can provide the veracity of the data and prevent data breaches.

Legally Enforceable Regulation and Retention Policies

This patented anti-ransomware solution has fail-proof legal documentation that specifies the duration for which the organization should hold the data while also mentioning any extenuating circumstances under which this data can be deleted or removed. So, this patented solution stands out in this feature, which enables organizations to be far more compliant with their legal and regulatory policies.

Traceability and Monitoring

This patented solution enhances accountability by meticulously tracking ALL actions taken on the archived data, including deletion, access, modification, and more, to ensure the utmost transparency.

Veritas’ Dynamic Recovery Orchestration (Patent US10846731B2)

Veritas’s patent pioneers dynamic recovery orchestration methodologies are unique in how their algorithms predict and prioritize data recovery in case of a cyber security attack or ransomware incident. The stellar features that empower them to do so include:

Business-first policies

Veritas’ solution puts the organization’s welfare at the forefront by defining policies led by those at the helm of the organization by enabling them to mandate recovery protocols and plans basis the most important priority of the business, the various service level agreements of the company, and course legal and regulatory compliances. These policies streamline their priorities and guide the recovery protocols and tasks in case of a data breaches and cyber security attack scenarios

Fail-proof Automation

In the event of outages, failures, or other unforeseen disasters, the patented solution seamlessly transitions all data operations to designated recovery sites, including alternative storage solutions, databases, and networks. Once the outage or security breach is resolved, the system automatically restores data to the primary infrastructure.

High Fidelity

The patented solution harnesses sophisticated techniques, such as data validation, granular-level log management, and running backup copies of the system’s applications, to ensure data integrity and fidelity during recovery.

Autonomous Streamlining of Workflow

In case of a cyber-attack or ransomware incident, this neat solution automatically streamlines recovery from heterogeneous environments where data breaches have occurred—be it in a physical, cloud, or virtual set-up. This autonomous recovery capability eliminates the need for human intervention, thereby saving personnel time and reducing the chances of human errors, thus exponentially enhancing efficiency.

Continuous Testing and Assessment

This patented solution boasts advanced features that continuously test and validate recovery plans so there is no scope for error in a cyber attack, ransomware incident or data breach. Moreover, these testing simulation models also help the solution “learn” and evolve into further enhancing recovery protocols through the testing simulation’s different situations.

Stellar’s Smart Data Recovery Algorithms (Patent US10799022B1)

Stellar’s patented smart data recovery algorithms enhance ransomware recovery efforts through refined techniques surpassing human intelligence. Just a few of their superior intellectual characteristics include:

Unique Pattern Recognition

Every piece of data has its unique signature, no matter what type. This “fingerprint” includes images, videos, heavy documentation, and more. Stellar’s patented algorithm can recover data once deleted, modified, or encrypted, even in a severe cyber attack or ransomware incident. It identifies the file’s unique signature, even if the metadata has been breached.

Recovery of Scattered Data

The patented Smart Data Recovery Algorithm can consolidate fragmented data across heterogeneous storage networks for efficient data recovery in case of a cyber attack or security breach. This feature makes it super efficient in reconstructing the original data so that its contents are fully coherent.

Granular Data Audits

Stellar’s Smart Data Recovery Algorithm audits and analyzes all storage files across different systems to address cyber attacks or security breaches, enable data recovery, and fix file inconsistencies and errors, thus enhancing the data recovery process.

Optimized to Perfection

This patented cybersecurity technology leverages multiple mechanisms to expedite the data recovery process while minimizing bandwidth. One potent weapon in their optimization arsenal is “parallel processing.” This method enables the solution to identify and process disparate data without compromising data recovery, making data recovery a highly scalable, efficient, and swift process.

Multi-threading is another process complementary to “parallel processing”, via which the solution can handle multiple processes simultaneously without compromising data recovery. For example, it can scan files for recovery, rescue data from damaged infrastructure, and recover and secure it in a safe location. These features reduce downtime and the time needed for recovery and increase the chance of a successful restoration in case of a cyber attack, data breach or ransomware incident.

Carbonite’s Automated Backup Verification (Patent US10947698B1)

Carbonite’s patented automated backup verification techniques comprise various processes to corroborate the completeness, reliability, and uniformity of backup data in preparation for contingencies like cyber attacks, data breaches, and ransomware incidents.

This patented solution distinguished itself through these outstanding features:

Rigorous and continuous testing

The solution continuously checks data integrity to ensure the backup data remains uncompromised over time. So, in case of a security breach, when the need for data recovery arises, the solution ensures that the data is intact and whole. A state-of-the-art way it does this is through the “Checksum Method.” A simplified explanation for this method is that the checksum function serves as a unique identity for a set.

This solution rigorously analyzes data before sending or storing it across any network. In the event of a cyber-attack or data breach, when you recover the data, the solution calculates a new checksum from the retrieved data and verifies it against the original data. If the checksums don’t match, it indicates that data has likely been lost or compromised. The checksum method plays a crucial role in ensuring successful data recovery. This method is one of several techniques that the patented solution employs.

Detailed Reporting Mechanisms

If the test results show any issues or discrepancies, the solution generates a detailed audit report indicating the successes, failures, and issuing any warnings along with the most plausible, detailed explanations of the various problems.

The exploration of patents in data restoration technologies for ransomware recovery unveils a wealth of innovative strategies and methodologies. By leveraging instant recovery mechanisms, intelligent data replication, immutable data archiving, dynamic recovery orchestration, smart data recovery algorithms, and automated backup verification, organizations can enhance their resilience against ransomware attacks and minimize the impact of data loss. As ransomware threats continue to evolve, the insights gleaned from these patented technologies play a crucial role in shaping effective ransomware recovery strategies. By embracing the innovative approaches offered by data restoration patents, organizations can navigate the challenges of ransomware recovery with confidence and ensure business continuity in the face of cyber adversity.

According to the Sophos State of Ransomware 2024 report, while the incidence of ransomware attacks has been on the decline this year, recovery costs have skyrocketed. The average cost that an organization pays out for recovery is now at a staggering $2.73 million!

Moreover, more than half of the organizations hit by a ransomware attack ended up paying the ransoms.

This underscores the integral need of proactively putting into place, the most powerfully effective backup and recovery mechanisms, that are possible with these cutting-edge patented solutions.

– By: The Editorial Team