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BARCELONA, Spain, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Huawei released the industry's first multilayer DC ransomware protection

solution based on network-storage collaboration today at the Mobile World

Congress (MWC) Barcelona 2023. Huawei recently commissioned IDC to write an IDC

White Paper, Developing Ransomware Resilience with Multilayer Network, Storage,

and Data Protection Architecture , which systematically defines best practices

for multilayer protection system for ransomware attacks.

During ransomware attacks, hackers encrypt user data and restrict asset access

and force victims to pay a ransom to unlock it. Ransomware attacks can not only

cause service interruption, but also result in massive reputational damage for

the victims.

All ransomware attacks share some important key features from a service

perspective:

a) Their software is extremely diverse. The number of ransomware variants

increased by 98% between 2021 H2 and 2022 H1, making it very difficult to

detect and respond to covert and new attacks quickly and effectively.

b) Ransomware spreads quickly, leaving little time for administrators to

respond once an attack begins. Microsoft found that ransomware can penetrate a

system to obtain permissions in just 45 minutes.

c) Enterprise businesses feel the impact of ransomware attacks more acutely

than other types of users, as it normally takes a long time to restore services

after an attack and data often cannot be restored at all. The IDC's white paper

shows that the average service downtime caused by ransomware attacks was 5 days

In 2022, and more than 46% of organizations that paid a ransom were still

unable to restore their data after the attack.

This leaves enterprises in urgent need of effective end-to-end protection as

traditional ransomware protection solutions simply cannot compete with these

challenges.

Huawei's innovative multilayer ransomware protection (MRP) solution instead

turns to data protection capabilities that are based on network-storage

collaboration. Its three core capabilities — network-storage detection,

network-storage response, and network-storage recovery — are able to better

prevent data encryption and theft than competing solutions.

- The MRP solution uses a system consisting of two lines of defense and six

layers of protection to enhance the security of IT systems and provides

end-to-end encryption in the storage field to effectively block data theft.

- Thanks to Huawei's industry-leading ransomware protection team and security

services, its network-storage association detection mechanism also delivers

99.9% accuracy (based on the CNCTC report), automating threat detection.

- Huawei's MRP solution provides the industry's fastest recovery speed of up to

172 TB/hour and uses secure snapshots to recover services within seconds. Its

offline air-gap storage also effectively copes with long-term service locking

after data is encrypted, slashing the recovery time.

Michael Qiu, President of Global Data Center Marketing & Solution Sales Dept.,

Enterprise BG, Huawei, explained, "Ransomware has become one of the most

serious threats to businesses globally. Last year, Huawei launched the

four-layer storage solution, which helped many customers defeat ransomware

attacks. This year, our new multilayer ransomware protection (MRP) technology

built on network-storage collaboration reinforces the protection. It minimizes

the impact of ransomware attacks on your business, delivering even zero service

downtime."

Duncan Brown, VP of Enterprise Research Europe, IDC, noted, "We believe it is

time to elevate these strategies to a multilayered approach that includes a

combination of infrastructure technologies such as storage and network,

consistent and comprehensive security awareness training, and regular updating

of endpoint and network security. This is the best defense against ransomware."

For details, visit

https://e.huawei.com/en/solutions/data-center/multi-level-data-center/mrp.

CONTACT:

hwebgcomms@huawei.com

SOURCE  Huawei

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