How Zerto Helps CISOs with Incident Response Practices

Zerto for CISOs

And Security Teams

Ensure effective response to cyberattacks

Protect business continuity

Meet regulatory and security compliance

A Critical Role and a Serious Responsibility

As cyber attacks continue to grow in both frequency and severity, keeping your organization safe and out of the news has become a major challenge.

Although your ultimate objective is to avoid a cybersecurity breach, it’s crucial to limit the impact of a breach when it happens. Your goal is to recover from a breach as quickly as possible to protect business continuity and organizational reputation.

Minimizing internal and external threats.
Building capabilities to detect, respond to, and recover from cyberattacks
Promoting security awareness internally.
Ensuring readiness of security teams and systems.

How Zerto Can Help You

Challenges for Incident Response Teams

Ideally, prevention measures keep a breach from happening, but a second line of defense that involves rapid cyberattack detection and response is critical. The sooner a breach is detected, the more its impact can be mitigated.

Current Solutions Are Inadequate

Most cyberattack detection solutions are decoupled from recovery—an essential phase in mitigating the impact of a ransomware attack. Some of these solutions rely on periodic detection methods that delay response, resulting in greater damage from an attack.

Time Spent Finding a Clean Restore Point Slows Recovery

Getting the incident response teams engaged as quickly as possible when a cyberattack is detected, is a priority. Their efforts, however fast, may be hampered if the team has difficulty determining a clean restore point. Recovery can’t happen until that restore point is clearly identified.

What You Need

Speedy Detection for Fast Response

The sooner a breach is detected and engaged, the more its impact is limited.

Real-Time Ransomware Detection

Solutions that enable security teams and systems to spot cyberattacks as they happen to limit damage to the organization.

Integration with Incident Response Solutions

Your detection solution must seamlessly integrate with existing incident response capabilities such as SIEMs or other solutions and workflows.

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What Zerto Offers You

Continuous

Real-Time Detection

The continuous data protection built into Zerto enables continuous real-time ransomware detection at no additional cost.

Real-Time Encryption Detection Out-of-the-Box

Immediately upon implementation, your data is protected with an early warning system for no additional cost or licenses.

Integration via REST APIs

By Using RESTful application programming interfaces (APIs), your entire data security suite is connected and sends alerts to your SIEM or other incident response tools.

Fast Retrieval of Most Recent Data Recovery Points

Capturing data every few seconds, enables you to restore good, clean data with the least amount of data loss.

Business Continuity: a Multi-Facetted and Collaborative Effort

Restoration and recovery involves different teams collaborating to minimize downtime and data loss, restore operations, and maintain business continuity.

Importantly, recovery after a cyberattack and breach differs from recovery following an IT failure in that the source of the initial attack is potentially still lurking within and across networks and systems. 

Different teams are involved in making sure systems and applications are secured, and need to work together to recover from a cyber-attack and ensure the continuity of the business operations.

Vulnerability Management

From a threat prevention standpoint, a SecOps approach ensures environments and applications stay current and secure. Having the ability to test patches quickly on high fidelity replicas of your environment is fundamental.

Application hardening

In DevSecOps, Dev teams need a nondisruptive and reliable testing approach to ensure new applications are properly hardened and secured at every step of development. Testing should also let security teams validate that all is good to go

Recovery Operations

Recovery involves in-depth forensics activities, scanning, and testing to ensure restoration of a clean environment. Cybersecurity and IT operations (ITOps) teams must work together to ensure effective and rapid recovery.

What You Need

Prevention and Recovery in One Solution

Security, IT Ops, and Dev teams require a solution that can fulfill tasks within their own workflows while also serving as a shared resource that enables essential functions.

High Fidelity Replica Tests

Whether conducting patch management or dev testing, you must validate that an update or app works properly in your environment.

Testing at Will and Often

From prevention to recovery, the ability to test frequently increases the level of readiness for both your infrastructure and your security teams.

Effective Recovery

Meet your business continuity SLAs with low levels of data loss and minimum downtime.

Simplicity and Safety

The solution must be easy to use, intuitive, and allow for role-based access and management so it can be used by people from various teams.

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What Zerto Offers You

Non-Disruptive Cloning

and Testing

Easily create high-fidelity replicas of your environment for reliable patch or dev testing without any disruption to the production environment.

The orchestration and automation in Zerto make setting up, running, and deleting a clone environment easy to do.

On-Demand Sandbox Environments

Zerto requires just four steps to create a clone against seconds-old, true copies of a production environment in an isolated sandbox.​

No Impact on Production

Occurring in its own separate sandbox, testing has no impact on replication or protection status and is available any time.​

Powerful Post-Test Operations

Easily dispose of data generated during a test and quickly generate failover test reports.

What Zerto Offers You

Rapid Recovery with Minimal Data Loss

Zerto enables organizations to rapidly recover from any disruption, dramatically limiting data loss and downtime.

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Continuous Data Protection (CDP)

Take advantage of the lowest RPOs and fastest RTOs with Zerto CDP and its continuous stream of data recovery checkpoints

Journal-Based Recovery

Meet your business continuity SLAs with low levels of data loss and minimum downtime.

Orchestration and Automation

Recover entire sites, applications, VMs, folders, and files in just a few clicks. Simply select a checkpoint and let the simple, automated Zerto workflows do the rest.

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What Zerto Offers You

Ease of Use, Simplicity

And Safety

Zerto is so simple and intuitive, that it makes learning and mastering tasks and workflows a breeze

Easy to Deploy, Configure, and Manage

Get Zerto up and running in a matter of minutes, enabling rapid data protection.

Simple and Intuitive UI with Automated Workflows

Spend less time in training and simplify your runbooks.

Role-Based Management

Allow only select individuals to perform specific tasks.

Cyber Vault for the Worst-Case Scenarios

For your most extreme scenarios, Zerto offers the Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault, a last-resort solution that guarantees a fast recovery using true air gaps, immutable copies, and industry-leading hardware from HPE and Zerto.

Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover

Enjoy the lowest RPOs and fastest RTOs with Zerto CDP and its continuous stream of data recovery checkpoints.

Zerto Combined with HPE Industry-Leading Hardware

On top of Zerto, get top-of-the-line hardware from HPE: Alletra MP for storage, Proliant for compute, and Aruba Network for networking.

Full Air Gap, Zero Trust Architecture

Get a genuine isolated environment and a highly secure and hardened solution.

Zerto Cyber

Resilience Vault

Isolated Offline Environment

Zero-Trust principles

Rapid Air-Gapped Recovery

Understanding the Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault

See how Zerto differs from traditional vaults that leave you at risk because of their slow recovery process and necessary connections. 

Addressing International Regulations, Standards, and Internal Requirements

In addition to cyberattack prevention, detection, and response, addressing regulations and standards is a separate set of requirements for any data security solution.

The challenge is finding synergies that reduce complexity and efficiencies that maximize taxed resources.

Compliance-Enabled IT Infrastructure

Any IT infrastructure must include features and functionalities that ensure existing and future compliance without hogging resources or generating complexity and technology debt.

Security Requirements for Solution Vendors

Vendor solutions must comply with the security requirements established by the cybersecurity team, including hardening of a solution, access management, etc.

Documented Action Plans

To address a security breach and its potential fallout, clear and robust documented action plans must be in place. Testing these plans is essential.

Fast Resolution of Security-Related Issues

Any issues identified during internal audits, from processes to system configuration or required software and hardware updates, must be addressed in a timely manner. Most fixes will require testing for validation.

What You Need

Prevention and Recovery in One Solution

Solutions that integrate seamlessly with your cybersecurity technology stack and processes enable teams involved in compliance to work efficiently.

The right solution has these characteristics:


Clear, Concise Security Features

Select vendors and solutions with strong security features and easy access to information.

Ease of Use and Automation

Simplified recovery plans and workflows make tests easy to run without requiring extensive training.

At-Will Testing

You will be able to test frequently and when needed without disrupting business operations.

Test Reporting

Effective test reports demonstrate organizational readiness and prove compliance.

What Zerto Offers You

Support for Regulatory

Compliance

Zerto’s out-of-the box capabilities and features go beyond data protection to support compliance with a wide variety of regulatory requirements.

Fast and Simple Recovery

The continuous data protection offered by Zerto enables simplification of recovery plans and workflows.

Nondisruptive Testing

Zerto makes it easy to test frequently, whether running a failover test or cloning an environment for patch or Dev testing.

Post-Test Reporting

Use Zerto to rapidly generate failover test reports that demonstrate compliance with internal requirements and regulations.

Data Immutability

Comply with with strict regulations, that mandate the protection and retention of data, by ensuring that data cannot be tampered with.

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What Zerto Offers You

Meeting Security Requirements

Easily identify unprotected VMs and automate their protection. Rely on a hardened solution that fits well in a Zero Trust architecture.

Visibility Across Your Environment

Zerto Analytics—a built-in tool— identifies protected and unprotected VMs, enabling better and faster security audits and resolutions.

Automated VM Protection

Don't leave any gap. Automatic VM protection ensures complete, flexible data protection across your environment when you add new VMs.

Hardened Solution

Zerto software components, connections, and designs, follows Zero Trust principles and embeds features making it secure and with a minimized attack surface.

Role-Based Management 

Configuration based on role enables Zerto clients to limit system access and the ability to perform specific tasks.

A Cyber Vault for the Most Stringent Regulations

Cyber insurance policies, local and federal regulatory bodies, and industry associations are increasingly requiring fully separated data vaults that cannot be infected by ransomware.

Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover

Take advantage of the lowest RPOs and fastest RTOs with Zerto CDP and its near-continuous stream of data recovery checkpoints. And get faster responses with its always-on real time ransomware detection.

Lower Complexity, Simplified Recovery

The unified Zerto solution adheres to Zero Trust principles and employs simplified workflows to let you easily recover from a cyberattack.  

Fully Air Gapped and Immutable

The vault is physically air gapped and stores immutable data copies on secure, high-performance, FIPS-validated hardware.

Zerto Cyber

Resilience Vault

Isolated Offline Environment

Zero-Trust principles

Rapid Air-Gapped Recovery

Understanding the Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault

See how Zerto differs from traditional vaults that leave you at risk because of their slow recovery process and necessary connections. 

Zerto’s Benefits

For Your Organization

Cybersecurity is well integrated and not an afterthought.

Recovery solution that improves detection capabilities

Hardened solution embedding Zero Trust principles

Cloning capabilities for reliable patch and dev testing

Business continuity is enabled in case of a breach

Data protection with always-on replication

Fast response available with real-time encryption detection

Minimized downtime and data loss thanks to continuous data protection

Get covered in worst case scenarios

Fully air-gapped immutable data vault

Recovery directly from the cyber vault

Same fast RTOs and low RPOs

Meet compliance requirements related to cyber-attacks (ransomware)


For You as a CISO or Security Leader

While Zerto delivers benefits to your organization, it also takes care of you personally.

Less Stress and Anxiety

The idea of negative events occurring on your watch is not the nightmare it used to be because you have a reliable path to effective recovery with minimal impact.

Improved Satisfaction

With Zerto, it’s easy to get cybersecurity requirements across DevOps and ITOps teams through a single easy-to-use, reliable solution for patch and dev testing.

Fewer Concerns

You can demonstrate compliance in key areas and with specific regulations.

Elevated Wellbeing

You are moving forward with a defined strategy by incorporating key responsibilities: minimizing threats, protecting business continuity, and promoting cybersecurity across teams.

Increased Confidence

You have greater visibility into the protected status of certain IT assets (VMs), giving you increased confidence in the effectiveness of security audits to fix gaps and issues.

What You Can Do Now

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