- Immutable backup storage is the best ransomware protection
- Research shows that backups are almost always targeted in ransomware attacks
- Ransomware is already up in 2025
Ransomware attacks in the first quarter of 2025 set new records, up 84% during the same period of 2024.
In addition, ransomware is often spoken as an attack whose companies should expect to be affected, two thirds of organizations undergoing an attack in the past two years.
But that is not all the misfortune and sadness, because the new research of the backup provider of the backup storage first show that 81% of computer decision -makers are suitable that immutable backup storage is the best protection of ransomware.
Segmentation, zero confidence and immutable storage
Although the 3-2-1 safeguarding strategy is a start in terms of ransomware protection, the First Research object also reveals that 96% of organizations that have undergone ransomware attack in the past two years have seen their backups of data targeted as part of at least one attack, with one in ten by seeing their storage of targeted safeguard in each attack.
Although there is a general consensus on the fact that immutable backup storage is probably the best way to protect yourself against ransomware, only 59% of organizations really deploy this form of storage, and only 58% have several copies of their data in distinct places. In addition to this, 61% of respondents believe that hardening of IT security offers sufficient protection against ransomware attacks.
Object first recommends that companies adopt a violation mentality and associate this with zero -confidence principles and immutable safeguard storage. To do this, companies should segment their networks to minimize the potential breath radius of an attack, as well as the use of authentication mechanisms for log-ins such as multi-fateur authentication and access to identity access management practices. In addition, each user should only have access to the files and applications he needs for his specific workload.
Immutable backup storage helps protect against ransomware attacks by storing data in a way that it cannot be modified or deleted. Traditionally, it is hard drives or other storage supports that are used to save data, then stored in an “air” environment that has no connection with the outside world. However, with booming cloud services, immutable cloud storage is now also an option.
