S3 Object Lock for Immutable Backup

Protect your business from data loss with immutable storage that can be immediately deployed back into your production storage after a ransomware attack or accidental deletion or alteration.

What is Object Lock?

Creating a data storage air gap by physically removing your backups from the network (aka on site tape backup and hard drives) may seem like the safest way to protect your data, but it is hardly practical when you need to quickly restore your data in the event of a ransomware attack, equipment failure, human error or natural disaster.

Immutable storage with S3 Object Lock is the modern equivalent of the air gap. It creates a logical air gap through encryption and hashing, which makes data immutable to malicious efforts to encrypt or delete it. Immutable objects, locked individually by an application or as part of an overarching policy with Wasabi's immutable storage buckets, cannot be deleted or altered in any way, not even by a system administrator.

With Wasabi S3 Object Lock, your data is secure, offsite, and available at a moment’s notice should you need immediate access to your backups.

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Why should you Use S3 Object Lock for immutable backups?

It is increasingly difficult to defend against bad actors, ensure the chain of custody and regulatory compliance of data, or prevent catastrophic data loss due to human error. Immutable storage enables you to make your data impervious to unauthorized or accidental revisions and deletion. Malicious actors cannot encrypt object-locked data and hold it for ransom.

In cases where you have multi-year retention requirements, you can set a fixed retention period to ensure those assets are securely protected for the duration of time required by governance or compliance requirements. Object Lock's immutable storage prevents unwanted revisions or deletions for all your stored data, for as long as you want to protect it, and is available to Wasabi customers at no additional cost.

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Data Protection

Avoid accidental or intentional deletion and alteration

Protect highly targeted backups from malware and cyber attacks

Enhance data protection resilience with immutable storage

Compliance

Ensure government and industry regulatory compliance

Place legal holds to ensure chain of custody

Comply with HIPAA, SEC, FINRA, FERPA, CJIS and other data retention requirements

Seamless Integration

Compatible with S3 Object Lock API

Verified for Veeam Backup and Replication
v10, v11, and v12

Easily set and manage retention periods per object or per bucket

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Protect data from ransomware with immutable storage

Backups are a favorite target of cybercriminals because encrypting both your primary systems and backups increases the pressure to pay their ransom. Businesses of all stripes are vulnerable, especially hospitals, financial institutions, and universities. Wasabi’s S3 Object Lock and immutable storage features make it impossible for anyone to alter or delete your critical data stored in the Wasabi cloud. Creating an immutable backup file adds failsafe protection to your defense-in-depth approach to cybersecurity.

And, unlike our competitors, our immutable storage feature is free to our customers, with no additional API request charges or other hidden fees to recover data.

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Learn how Wasabi customers mitigate the risk of ransomware attacks

“Veeam users and anyone looking for affordable long-term backup storage or facing ransomware attacks like us should sign up for Wasabi. The way it integrates, the ease of use, and its ability to protect your business’s backup data is unrivaled.”

– Brian Fraley, Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, Aquatech International

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“Wasabi’s Object Lock has been a game-changer for us. It allows us an additional level of ransomware protection that we did not have before. It’s easy to use and easy to manage.”

– Kyle Burnette, Director of IT Infrastructure, Brightstar Care

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“We use both Veeam’s and Wasabi’s immutability. They’re perfect to prevent any sort of cyber attack. We have a 365-day setting where those backups can’t be touched or deleted for a full year.”

– Kyle Begle, Network Administrator, Clarke University

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Include Object Lock in your 3-2-1-1-0 backup strategy with Veeam + Wasabi

Veeam Backup & Replication enables you to store backups onsite for fast recovery and copy those backups to Wasabi’s immutable storage, giving you additional protection against malicious activity or accidental deletion at no additional cost.

 

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