We’re delighted that you’re interested in trying out NetApp Ransomware Resilience. Here are some background information, specifications and instructions to help you get started quickly and easily.
What is NetApp Ransomware Resilience?
NetApp Ransomware Resilience delivers a comprehensive solution for ransomware defense for ONTAP, enabling you to minimize the impact and return to normal business operations quickly and easily following an attack.
Protecting data where it resides, Ransomware Resilience automatically detects data breaches, suspicious user behaviors, encryption and data deletion in real time, and immediately responds to contain the attack and limit its impact. Ransomware Resilience then cleans and restores the maximum amount of up-to-date data possible, all through a guided process.
With Ransomware Resilience you can limit data loss, prevent reinfection of the data, and minimize business disruptions, while reducing the operational burden of managing cyber defence for ONTAP. Ransomware Resilience gives you peace of mind. If an attack occurs on your storage, you'll know immediately, your valuable data will be protected, and recovery will be quick and easy.
Key features include:
- Automatically detects encryption and anomalous user behaviour in real time
- Takes immutable, tamperproof snapshots and enables user blocking to minimize data loss
- Delivers a guided recovery workflow to curate, clean and restore data fast
- Provides visibility to assess gaps, applies protection policies at scale, and helps validate attack response readiness
- Provides reporting capabilities
- Integrates with leading SIEMs to enhance them with alerts and analytics to support incident triage and prioritization
- Provides NetApp SOAR Playbooks to enable your SOAR to take action on ONTAP to contain the attack
- Includes unique, built-in capabilities and utilizes relevant ONTAP features and NetApp Data Services
Note, Ransomware Resilience is designed to complement other security solutions such as firewalls, endpoint protection, and perimeter defenses.
What is the NetApp Ransomware Resilience free trial?
NetApp Ransomware Resilience is free to try for 30 days. You get all the features – all without any restrictions on the amount of data you chose to protect.
What environments and workloads does NetApp Ransomware Resilience support?
NetApp Ransomware Resilience supports ONTAP 9.11.1 or higher.
Ransomware Resilience supports file and block volumes. It does not currently support object stores. See supported backup targets, systems, and workload data sources here
How do I start my trial?
Customers will need to sign up for an account, create an organization and deploy a Console agent to their designated storage volume.
To learn how to identify your Organization ID in the NetApp Console, click here.
To deploy the Console agent in standard mode, learn more here
For on-premises environments, OVA deployment via vCenter is recommended. Alternative installation methods are available for manual Linux deployments (bare metal or hypervisor of your choice) and for public clouds (AWS/Azure/GCP) Please ensure the network prerequisites are satisfied before installation, see below:
- Install Agent OVA (on‑prem)
- Manual Agent Install (on‑prem)
- Agent Options in AWS
- Agent Options in Azure
- Agent Options in Google Cloud
If you encounter any issues during the installation the Console agent, please open a support ticket.
Then you can start using NetApp Ransomware Resilience. Go to https://console.netapp.com/home to log in.
If this is the first time logging into the NetApp Console, this page will appear. Select ‘Protect against ransomware’.
After clicking on ‘Protect against ransomware’, the NetApp Ransomware Resilience landing page will appear.
Click the 'Start trial' and then start by discovering the workloads you want to protect. These should ideally be workloads where ransomware resilience is a business priority, such as AI, analytics, or core business systems.
Is support included in the trial?
Yes, support is available and is the same as if the customer purchased a license or subscription.
What happens at the end of the trial?
The service does not automatically convert to a paid subscription at the end of the free trial. If you wish to continue using NetApp Ransomware Resilience after the trial ends you will need to purchase a BYOL license or PAYG subscription via cloud-vendor marketplaces (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud). You can also purchase a license or subscription at any time during your trial. You will not be charged until the trial ends.
How much does NetApp Ransomware Resilience cost?
Please contact your NetApp sales rep or trusted Partner.
Where to find additional information
More information here including a get started guide, please go here https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/data-services-ransomware-resilience/index.html
