Why Autodata Assured Recovery Vault (ARV)?

Autodata’s on-premise Assured Recovery Vault is powered by Scality. The on-premise ARV uses native S3 object lock ensuring that data immutability provides a critical last line of defence against ransomware attacks and data loss protection.

In the event of a ransomware attack, organisations will typically isolate affected environments from external networks whilst executing the recovery strategy. This loss of connectivity can persist for 5-10 days, often increasing RTOs for critical data beyond an unacceptable level.

Ransomware operators routinely target backup platforms and recovery infrastructure as a part of an attack, seeking to disrupt an organisations ability to recover independently. An essential way to do this is to protect backups by making them immutable the second they are written.

Why do we need Immutability?

If malware compromises your local servers, it cannot encrypt, alter, or delete the historical backups stored in an immutable tier

Immutability in S3 is a data security feature that guarantees your saved data cannot be modified, overwritten, or deleted by any user or application for a predetermined period.

Why Autodata ARV?

Autodata’s Assured Recovery Vault offers the optimal balance of security, availability, and performance.

API-level resilience
Data-level resilience
Storage-level resilience
Geographic-level resilience
Architecture-level resilience

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Designed to deliver immutable recovery with Zero Trust cyber resilience

Autodata’s ARV powered by Scality is a solution that safeguards data at five core levels for unbreakable protection against evolving cyberthreats:

1. API-level resilience – achieved by mimicking application commands, ransomware attackers attempt to encrypt, modify, or delete stored backups. Autodata’s ARV stops these attacks in their tracks with support for S3 Object Locking APIs, ensuring backups are immutable the instant they’re created.

2. Data-level resilience – while application-level immutability provides powerful defence against ransomware, it can’t prevent data exfiltration attacks or other malicious access on the network or by unauthorised admins. Autodata ARV helps mitigate this risk by providing Zero Trust principles by isolating critical recovery data.

3. Storage-level resilience – if attackers can’t defeat higher-level defences, they may attempt to penetrate the system below the API layer in order to modify data on the physical disk drives themselves. The success of these low-level attacks is virtually impossible thanks to distributed erasure coding technology that renders data indecipherable.

4. Geographic-level resilience – data stored within a single location is also particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks. To eliminate the risks of single-site backup storage, Autodata’s ARV employs replication and mirroring of data across data centres and enables easy multi-site deployment for application-managed replication.

5. Architecture-level resilience – Autodata’s ARV has a hardened operating system and object storage design with immutability built in. No root access. No bolt ons.

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Managed Service

"We needed a reliable cloud backup and storage service that didn’t take too much time to manage. Autodata's Managed Service solution is straightforward, secure, and sensibly priced. It’s helped us get on top of our data protection goals and tick off a few compliance boxes too. It’s also been easier to work with Autodata than some of the bigger names."

Gavin Bidgood Infrastructure and Security Manager, Hotel Chocolat

Cyber Security Maturity Assessment

"We were able to make our perimeter even more secure by addressing the areas of weakness exposed by Autodata. A previous assessment performed two months earlier by another supplier for our CE+ renewal had failed to highlight all the critical and high risks. I was also impressed that Autodata's report arrived swiftly seeing as I'd waited over two weeks for anything from the other supplier."

Simon Parsons Director of IT, CitySprint

Microsoft 365 Backup

"We needed S3 object storage offsite to bolster our backup environment, initially for M365 then for our server infrastructure as well. Autodata’s M365 Backup solution has allowed us to leverage immutable cloud repositories giving us reassurance that our data will be safe. It’s easy to setup, easy to manage, and backs up with no problems whatsoever."

Neil Fleetwood IT Helpdesk Support Manager, Kimal

Penetration Testing

"We engaged Autodata for our penetration testing based on their credentials and overall approach. The whole process was very smooth and I felt fully engaged throughout. Their project team was impressively self-sufficient, providing us with daily progress updates and issuing the final report within a matter of days. I was very satisfied with the service and would definitely recommend them."

Dan Young IT Service & Support Director, Killik & Co

Managed Service

"We were already an existing Veeam user, however we were overprovisioned and looking to increase our protection against ransomware by introducing immutability. Autodata took our requirements and provided an easier to manage, more affordable service backed by prompt support. The service has improved our level of confidence in our backups whilst reducing costs."

Luke Cox IT Support Engineer, HQW Aerospace

Cyber Essentials Plus

"We engaged Autodata to support the renewal of our CE+ certification. They were able to kick-off the project at short notice and scheduled penetration testing in alignment with our internal IT resource availability. Their team are professional, knowledgeable, and supportive. I would not hesitate in recommending them to any organisation looking to overcome its cyber security challenges."

Sean Forrest IT Manager EMEA, Tetra Tech

Managed Service

"Autodata's Managed Service solution is really easy to use and is cost effective against other types of backup and cloud storage available yet offers advanced functionality. It has given us extra layers of security and helps us to assure stakeholders that we have the right technology in place for data protection and restoration. The solution just works!"

Ian Robertson Director of ICT, The Regenda Group

Microsoft 365 Backup

"When it came to implementing an offsite immutable storage repository to protect our entire M365 environment and provide ransomware protection, Autodata's unique offering represented a significant cost saving. They were able to offer us a fully managed Veeam M365 Backup solution with immutable storage for only a marginal increase in what we had been paying for Veeam licences alone."

Stephen Clark Solutions Architect, Greencore

Cyber Awareness as a Service

"Autodata offers an effective managed cyber awareness testing and training programme. I was very pleased with how straightforward it was to set up and that everything runs on my behalf with minimal interaction. We continue to benefit from such a well thought-out programme, helping to keep cyber security at the forefront of our employee’s minds all year round."

Chris Russell CTO, Abacus Financial Services

Immutable Cloud Storage

"We wanted a cloud storage service that worked well with Veeam and provided immutability to enable us to lockdown our data and recover backups in the event of a ransomware attack. Autodata's Immutable Cloud Storage solution powered by Wasabi provides cloud storage at an affordable price with added cyber security protection - which is precisely what we were looking for."

Alan Pereira CIO, Gibraltar Financial Services Commission