In today's digital age, data is your organization's most critical asset. Unfortunately, it's also the primary target for cyber threats such as ransomware, malware, and malicious insider attacks. Traditional backups are essential, but they're no longer enough. Enter immutable backups—an increasingly vital layer of protection.

What Are Immutable Backups?

Immutable backups are copies of your data that cannot be altered, deleted, or encrypted once created. This ensures your backup data remains safe and unchangeable, even if your primary data becomes compromised due to ransomware or other cyber threats.

Immutable backups guarantee that your organization can always recover to a clean, uninfected state, minimizing downtime, financial loss, and reputational damage.

Why Immutable Backups Matter

• Protection Against Ransomware:

  Cybercriminals often target backup data specifically, aiming to leave organizations with no recovery options except to pay the ransom. Immutable backups eliminate this risk.

• Regulatory Compliance:

  Many industries now require immutable backups to comply with regulations that mandate data retention and integrity, including GDPR, HIPAA, and industry-specific regulations.

• Data Integrity Assurance:

  Ensuring data remains unchanged is critical for audit purposes, business continuity, and trust among stakeholders and customers.

Achieving Immutable Backups with Hornetsecurity and Wasabi

Hornetsecurity (formerly Altaro VM Backup) combined with Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage offers a straightforward and effective solution for creating and managing immutable backups.

Hornetsecurity VM Backup simplifies the backup process for virtual environments and ensures comprehensive protection and easy recovery.

Wasabi Cloud Storage provides cost-effective cloud storage with built-in object immutability, ensuring your backups cannot be modified or deleted during the retention period.

Key Benefits of This Integration

• Quick and intuitive setup with minimal configuration
• Lower cost per GB compared to traditional providers
• Scale backup storage as your data grows without hassle
• End-to-end encryption and secure transfer protocols built in

Immutable backups aren't just a good practice—they're essential to a modern data protection strategy. By combining Hornetsecurity VM Backup with Wasabi cloud storage, your business can achieve reliable, affordable, and secure backup immutability—ensuring data resilience and peace of mind.