The Archive360 Newsletter

Cybersecurity threats continue to grow 

According to cybersecurity firm SonicWall’s 2021 report, ransomware attacks have increased by 158 percent in North America alone and by 62 percent worldwide over the past 12 months. Another 2021 report by Positive Technologies highlights a growing focus on targets that allow the attacker easy access to a large number of victims, whether by supply-chain attacks or by attacking a cloud provider. The main motive for attacks on both organizations and individuals continues to be the acquisition of data – personal information, credentials, and intellectual property. The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) found the most common attack vectors seen in cloud environments today are caused by misconfiguration and outdated software.

Cloud data migration trends and issues

Despite all the reports of vulnerabilities and data breaches in the news, the lure of dynamically scaling computer processing up or down based on operational requirements, centralizing data storage to facilitate information management and business insights, and enabling real-time access to organization information from anywhere, far outweighs the risks. A recent study by Pulse and Archive360 found over 80% of the technology leaders surveyed are prioritizing a move of their legacy application data to the cloud in the next 12 months. The study also indicates that the move to the cloud is still in its infancy: only 3% of the respondents currently use an archive or other information management application to actively manage the bulk of their cloud-stored data. 

Take data security matters into your own hands 

For those of you who need to be in control of your data security and want to take data security to the next level by insisting on a  zero-trust architecture approach, Archive360 offers the world’s first zero trust, intelligent information management, and archiving Platform as a Service (PaaS). Together with Archive360’s Security Gateway, you manage your data with your  security in your cloud. You have your own dedicated deployment infrastructure. There are no shared network resources or shared encryption keys with other cloud tenants. You have complete control over your software’s security options. You can: 

• Manage all software security configurations and rotate encryption keys as needed 
• Secure data in transit, at rest, and while in use 
• Store encryption keys on-premises or in the cloud, separate from the data 
• Encrypt files, metadata, and data on-premises before moving them to the cloud 
• Search encrypted data via homomorphic encryption 
• Control data residency or geolocation 
• Provide fine-grained control over access security and data retention by business unit, department, role, user, and record – down to the field or character level 
• Block, mask, anonymize, and redact data down to the field or character level 
• Provide field-level encryption controlled by role-based access controls (RBAC) 
• Audit who accessed the file or data and when and how it was accessed 
• Provide an immutable chain of custody 
• Enable new uses for your data repositories to meet compliance and business intelligence needs 

Unlike other information management and archiving solutions that transform data into proprietary formats, the Archive2Azure cloud platform always stores data in its native format, ensuring your organization always has access to and control over your data and eliminating the potential for vendor data ransoming.