Builder Co Brothers Ltd. is a building constructor company worldwide and their primary activity consists of manufacturing general building engineering designs and providing consultancy services. To store all the influential information regarding their business, the organization is highly dependent on the physical and cloud-based storage solution to back up their contents of the server.
In late 2019, Builder Co Brothers Ltd experienced an attack on their system as they discovered that both their onsite physical backup as well as the secondary cloud backup was affected by a ransomware attack. The PDPC was notified that the cyber-attack incident has affected the personal data of 384 employees.
HOW DID IT HAPPEN?
In late 2019, Builder Co Brothers Ltd experienced an attack on their system as they discovered that both their onsite physical backup as well as the secondary cloud backup was affected by a ransomware attack. The PDPC was notified that the cyber-attack incident has affected the personal data of 384 employees.
The method for the ransomware attack remained unidentified but the physical server was unprotected and unverified which opened up a loophole for the hacker. The IT Management was not cautious about cyber-threat protection and did not have good practices which resulted in such an unfortunate attack. After the incident, they improved their procedures with proper backup and adopting new solutions.
WHAT THEY DID NOT DO?
Unprotected Servers
Bad IT Practices and Poor IT Policy Management
No Privilege Access Management Deployed
No Proper Schedules for Servers Backup
ORGANIZATION’S IMPACT
Lost of Trust by Employees and Customers
Reputation and Branding Loss
High IT Infrastructure Cost to Rectify Issues
Internal Staff Retraining and Awareness
X-PHY PROTECTION METHOD
1. Key Code 2-Factor and Key Code Pro-X within the X-Factor Encryption Lock verify all the data in X-PHY® using unique encryption keys and check any activity before it takes place in the server. Making it impossible for the attacker to upload the malicious files into the server.
2. Once the X-File Forensic Agent features detect any ransomware activities in the server, Key Code 2-Factor will be triggered immediately.
3. Key Code 2-Factor within the X-Factor Encryption Lock locks the data and makes it accessed only by pairing multiple encryption keys that prevent the ransomware from accessing the data.
4. X-PHY® then locks down the data completely by entering the safe mode.
