By this Unfolding Series, I intend to help you and your team. It is about breaking the notions and brings crystal clear clarity.

As I narrated in Part 1 on Unfolding Notions to be Broken series, there is something we created specifically for companies like yours in to help them compete on global standards, protect their intellectual property, save software license costs, save huge on G-Suite subscription, and take on data theft challenges. The “notions to be broken” I am implying, are about our own Indian Technology, developed for the organizations like yours, known as BLACKbox.

SMEs, IT Vendors, IT Managers underestimate BLACKbox as a NAS Device like Netgear or a Microsoft Server or a Firewall like Sonicwall or Endpoint Security like Quickheal or Mail Vigilance System like postmaster. Such “Notions to be Broken” neglect the underlying technology powering BLACKbox.

In this series, we will take one single feature of BLACKbox and explain how it overcomes a serious challenge to recover data after a ransomware attack at your organization, which otherwise cannot be solved by traditional solutions like Firewall and Antivirus.

Today, we are taking Vault and Workspace as a signature proprietary feature of BLACKbox and we will see how necessary it is for your organization. We will also see a serious limitation of Firewalls and Antivirus in event of a Ransomware Attack.

Importance of Plan B

Your organization and many such companies in own digital assets in the form of data. It can be designs, drawings, cost sheets, documents, customer details, accounts data, formulations, MIS reports, foreign collaborated technology. If this data is lost due to a ransomware attack, imagine the damages and cost of Business Discontinuity. Let me ask you, what have you done to prevent ransomware attack on your ogranization? Your answer is Firewall, Antivirus, or both. You and many others like you think that you have done enough by deploying Firewall and Antivirus at your organization. My discomforting question to you you is, what if the antivirus on any system is not updated, or what if a laptop is out of your firewall network and gets infected, or what if the ransomware is newly launched and your antivirus/firewall are not able to detect it? My other discomforting question to you is, what will you do if all the data of your organization is encrypted by ransomware, or what will you do if the ransomware has encrypted your backups too?

You have a good plan A by deploying a Firewall and Antivirus, I am afraid to point out that most organizations like yours do not have plan B. A concrete plan B to recover data after a ransomware attack, rebound, and maintain business continuity at your organization in minimum time.

Unfolding Vault and Workspace for Your Organization

BLACKbox works as an AI-enabled data segregator. It identifies frequently modified data and separates it from old, frozen data which is referred by users but is never modified as it is past data of accounts, completed projects, finalized documents, etc. The frozen and never modified data is bit-locked in a vault and frequently used data is filed on a time machine on a workspace daily. So at any point in time, your past data is unmodifiable in the vault and your current data is available in daily past versions, as, yesterday’s workspace, the day before yesterday’s workspace, and so on for the number of days you decide.

The vault and time machine of the workspace is stored in a hidden chamber (logically disconnected memory space) which is not visible or accessible over the network.

Let’s imagine that all data at your organization is lost due to a ransomware attack. Your vault containing past data is unaffected as it is bit-locked. Your workspace data will be lost. No problem, you can shift to yesterday’s workspace on the time machine and continue your business at your organization.

Not only that but also you can subscribe to the BLACKbox data center service which keeps all your vault and workspace on an off-premise infrastructure.

This is one of the 50 discerning features of BLACKbox, which solves a genuine problem, breaks the notion about the reliability of plan A to deploy firewall and antivirus. It is good to have Plan A and it is better to have a Plan B.

I will return with another “Notion to be Broken” next month.

Best Regards,

Vishal Shah

Founder and CEO,

Synersoft Technologies Private Limited