Ransomware attacks, however, are difficult to stop because they target the weakest leak in the IT security chain – users – most of whom work at branch offices and remote sites, said Saimon Michelson, field CTO at New York City-based CTERA.
Rather than storing files on local storage islands (NAS) at the edge, global file system (GFS) technology stores the authoritative copy of each file in a central location, either a private cloud or secure data center. Frequently used files are cached locally for fast access, while file changes are continuously replicated to the “gold copy” in the cloud.