Quest Software has unveiled a range of new enhancements to its newly launched disaster recovery solution, which the company says helps “minimise the impact of ransomware attacks”.
Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory (RMAD) Disaster Recovery Edition (DRE) 10.2 offers a new Secure Storage solution to protect Active Directory (AD) backups from malware, as well as the ability to restore AD to a clean Microsoft Azure virtual machine in the cloud.
Combined, the new updates added to RMAD DRE 10.2 give organisations more “control and confidence” to “prepare for and quickly recover AD from any destructive corruption or cyberattacks”.
“Ransomware is the number one security threat today, with 69% of businesses suffering an attack in 2020 alone, and an average downtime of 21 days. Following an attack, business operations cannot be restored until Active Directory is functional again. Therefore, we believe all organisations must ensure their ransomware risk mitigation strategies include a dedicated AD recovery plan to be able to get their business back up and running as quickly and safely as possible,” said Michael Tweddle, president and general manager, Quest Microsoft Platform Management.
“RMAD DRE 10.2 allows us to continue our commitment to providing customers more flexibility, control and confidence to ensure a fast and secure recovery in the event of a worst-case scenario,” he added.
Johan Lindahl, IT Infrastructure Specialist at Skandia said: “This solution is more complete and met more of our needs than any other tool — others didn't have nearly as many features, and Recovery Manager is rated much higher by reviewers.
“We did a test restore of our main Active Directory and got that working, so we feel confident that we’re prepared for an actual incident.”
