Quorum ensures your snapshots are safe and secure.

No Shared Connections to Your Production Network

The onQ does not share any connections to your production network beyond the cable connecting it. The onQ does not rely on Active Directory, or DNS in order to function. By minimizing these and other attack vectors, the onQ is far less likely to be targeted by a Ransomware attack.

Encrypted in Motion and At Rest

All snapshot data is encrypted in motion and at rest, which means previous snapshots cannot be infected, ensuring customers will have an uncompromised snapshot for recovery.

Hardened Linux Operating System

onQ runs a hardened Linux operating system, reducing all security vulnerabilities to an absolute minimum and further protecting your data.

Immutable Backups

All backups cannot be encrypted, altered or modified, protecting from both insider threats and ransomware hackers.

“Over the past 2 years, we have had 3 Ransomware attacks, mostly caused by employees opening documents with infected attachments that looked legitimate. We were able to isolate and recover the infected servers in a matter of minutes. I can honestly say, without Quorum, we would not be in business today.”

– Confidential Oil and Gas Client

How to Mitigate a Ransomware Disaster with Quorum

In the case of a ransomware infection, this is where the onQ and Quorum Clean Room Test Network can really help! First, the IT team isolates the affected system to prevent the spread of the infection. Then onQ can be leveraged to find the last known good snapshot that’s free from ransomware. Then, the IT team selects it from the onQ and spin up that uninfected version. Once fully booted, the Quorum Appliance becomes your production server and is ready to take over for the failed server(s), until you can plan a failback at a more suitable time. Below are the steps in detail.

1. Turn it off and notify authorities.

As soon as you realize you’ve been breached with the malware, do your best to isolate the affected servers. Take them offline immediately. Search for Patient Zero – this may not be easy and may take some time. You should also notify law enforcement authorities or the FBI because ransomware is an extortion crime.

2. Keep working.

From the onQ Quorum dashboard, start a clone of your production server from a time that you know is clean. Remember–Quorum’s snapshot is encrypted. Run that clone in production for as long as you need.

3. Clean your systems.

Take as long as you need to fix your production systems while the clone is running. We continue to back up your data even when the clone is running.

4. Failback to production.

Once your production systems are cleaned and back online, simply failover from onQ back to production. All changes that occurred while running on our solution will be migrated back to production.

5. Never pay the ransom.

Notice the theme with this recovery scenario? It’s minimal downtime. You never consider paying the ransom, and you look like a rock star because you have a fix in place as soon as you realize you have a problem.

Quorum onQ is the Core of Our Disaster Recovery and Ransomware Protection Solution..

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Security is in Our DNA

With all Quorum solutions, security measures such as immutable back-ups, encryption at rest and in transit, multi-factor authentication, and a zero-trust environment are our highest priority. For customers using Quorum Cloud, each customer receives dedicated resources in the event of a disaster, with connectivity via open VPN or Cisco AnyConnect. Our multiple cloud locations are fully PCI and HIPAA compliant to ensure your most sensitive data is safe.

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Years in Business

15+

Ransomware Infections

0

Recovery Time

~5 mins.

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“In under 2 hours, we completed a bare metal restore…”

In under 2 hours, we completed a bare metal restore from the local Quorum server and went home and got some sleep. The next morning came and no one even knew the PDC for the entire institution died the night prior.

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William Estlow

Network Manager – Century Savings Bank

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“The ‘Set it and forget it’ reliability and uptime is amazing.”

Quorum is seamlessly integrated with my network, and the ‘set it and forget it’ system reliability and system uptime are just amazing.

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Gabriel Longoria

Director of IT – Hotel Emma

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“Quorum is ridiculously easy to learn…”

Quorum is ridiculously easy to learn how to operate. To be able to operate this effectively out of restore and backup, is incredible. I think it’s a very elegant solution, a very well thought out and a very well-designed solution.