Solution Brief

Avoid Paying Ransomware

with Nutanix, Arcserve,
and Sophos
Integrated cyber and data protection for your
business-critical Nutanix Cloud Platform
Ransomware has become a significant risk to businesses, with an average ransom payout reaching $233,8171. It’s time to
fight back.

Together, Nutanix Cloud Platform and Arcserve data protection solutions secured by Sophos helps to neutralize cyberattacks,
including ransomware, by removing the complexity of siloed cybersecurity and data protection strategies for your critical IT
systems. The end result?

A proactive, multi-layered approach that helps you achieve IT resilience faster.

First and Last Line of Defense, Designed for Your Business and Your Nutanix Cloud Platform
Protecting against security threats, data loss, and downtime is tough enough. But, juggling multiple strategies, processes, vendors,
SLAs, and support teams only adds complexity and leaves you open to security gaps and data erosion.
Industry-leading Nutanix Cloud Platform serves as the foundation that removes infrastructure complexity and provides essential
features such as data-at-rest encryption, WORM policies for immutable backups, and insights from file analytics to secure and
harden your environment. Arcserve’s data and ransomware protection is designed to meet the demands of today’s IT by removing
standalone, disparate products while delivering proven, all-in-one cybersecurity, backup, and disaster recovery (DR) for Nutanix.
Powerful integration with a first and last line of defense against cyberattacks and data loss offers peace of mind that your
organization can withstand any threat.

Ransomware Protection for Nutanix Cloud Platform by Arcserve and Sophos

First Line of Defense Last Line of Defense

1. Detect & Prevent

Defend your backups
with Sophos Intercept X
2. Respond
Rapidly respond and
remove threats with
3. Protect
Deploy immutable backups
with heterogeneous, image-
4. Restore & Neutralize
If needed, safely spin up
copies of physical and
Advanced for Server, CryptoGuard and based data protection that virtual systems onsite,
cutting-edge cybersecurity WipeGuard, which use safeguards on-premises using built-in AHV
that uses a deep learning behavioral analysis to stop HCI systems, cloud, and integration, offsite, or in
neural network to detect never-before-seen SaaS-based data from private and public clouds.
both known and unknown ransomware and boot- external threats, major Threats are neutralized
malware without relying on record attacks. disasters, human error, or while data loss and
signatures. other unplanned outages. downtime are eliminated.

Nutanix Cloud Platform Cloud Saas-based data

1. Sophos 2021 Threat Report: https://www.sophos.com/en-us/labs/security-threat-report.aspx, January 2021

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Multi-Technology Synchronization, Powered by Nutanix, Arcserve, and Sophos

You need a simplified, smarter approach to become cyber ready, and we have the answer: Cutting-edge technologies powered by
Nutanix Cloud Platform, Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) and Sophos Intercept X Advanced for Server that work seamlessly
together to remove complexity, improve SLAs, and leave the risk of cyberattacks and data loss behind.

Agentless and
agent-based High availability AES encryption
Root cause and role-based
analysis backup
Instant VM and access control
bare-metal restore
Machine Onsite and offsite
Learning replication Local and remote SLA reporting
Malware virtual standby
Anti-ransomware
Removal
and anti-exploit

Arcserve Solutions for Nutanix Secured by Sophos

Get total protection for your Nutanix infrastructure with solutions designed to integrate cyber and data protection across
your on-premises, cloud, and SaaS-based workloads.
Public Or Private
Clouds

NAS Arcserve UDP Cloud Hybrid

Secured By Sophos
CIFS Shares NAS NFS Shares

Arcserve UDP
Secured By Sophos

Arcserve Appliances
Secured By Sophos

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Secure and Protect Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Arcserve UDP software and Arcserve Appliances Secured by Sophos are the leading choice for IT pros looking for an all-in-one
solution with a central interface for backup processes, tools, and infrastructure. Appliances combine storage, server processing,
networking, hardware, cloud services, and cyber and data protection capabilities – deployable in 15 minutes or less.
Harness the power of native AHV integration, and:

Prevent data loss in Nutanix Cloud Platform, with deduplicated agentless backup for AHV, backup for Nutanix
Files, quick disaster recovery with automatic failover, and reliable AI-powered cybersecurity for your backups
Reduce RTOs and RPOs to just minutes or seconds with Arcserve’s Virtual Standby and Instant VM
Recover image backups directly to Nutanix AHV, as well as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V,
Amazon AWS EC2, Microsoft Azure and bare-metal physical servers
Gain peace of mind with automated disaster recovery testing powered by Assured RecoveryTM with RPO,
RTO and SLA validation
Store deduplicated backups in the reliable and scalable Nutanix Objects storage

Secure and Protect Cloud-Based Workloads

Arcserve UDP Cloud Hybrid Secured by Sophos is a fully managed service extension to Arcserve UDP software and appliances.
Going beyond traditional cloud backup, it offers cohesive data security, protection, and retention.
Harness the power of integration, and:

Prevent data loss from major disasters by storing copies of your backups in the reliable cloud secured by
AI-powered solution
Ensure quick disaster recovery by spinning copies of your Nutanix VMs directly in the cloud
Gain peace of mind with automated, cloud disaster recovery testing powered by Assured RecoveryTM
with RPO, RTO and SLA validation
Eliminate risks with any-to-any recovery to and from the cloud
Avoid surprises with streamlined licensing that includes egress

Take the Next Step

Find out more at arcserve.com
or contact us at +1 844 639-6792.

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About Arcserve
Arcserve provides exceptional solutions to protect the priceless digital assets of organizations in need of full scale, comprehensive data
protection. Established in 1983, Arcserve is the world’s most experienced provider of business continuity solutions that safeguard multi-
generational IT infrastructures with applications and systems in any location, on premises and in the cloud. Organizations in over 150
countries around the world rely on Arcserve’s highly efficient, integrated technologies and expertise to eliminate the risk of data loss and
extended downtime while reducing the cost and complexity of backing up and restoring data by up to 50 percent.

About Nutanix
Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, making computing invisible
anywhere. Companies around the world use Nutanix software to leverage a single platform to manage any app at any location at any
scale for their private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

About Sophos
As a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, Sophos protects more than 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150
countries from today’s most advanced cyber threats. Powered by SophosLabs – a global threat intelligence and data science team –
Sophos’ cloud-native and AI-powered solutions secure endpoints (laptops, servers and mobile devices) and networks against evolving
cyberattack techniques, including ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, active-adversary breaches, phishing, and more.
Sophos Central, a cloud-native management platform, integrates Sophos’ entire portfolio of next-generation products, including the
Intercept X endpoint solution and the XG next-generation firewall, into a single “synchronized security” system accessible through a
set of APIs. Sophos has been driving a transition to next-generation cybersecurity, leveraging advanced capabilities in cloud, machine
learning, APIs, automation, managed threat response, and more, to deliver enterprise-grade protection to any size organization. Sophos
sells its products and services exclusively through a global channel of more than 53,000 partners and managed service providers (MSPs).
Sophos also makes its innovative commercial technologies available to consumers via Sophos Home.

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