Case Study: City of Palermo restores after ransomware attack with Arcserve backup and recovery

City of Palermo begins recovery after ransomware attack with Arcserve

The City of Palermo, a major municipality, faced a complete shutdown of its services following a double-extortion ransomware attack that corrupted its primary backups and VMware infrastructure. The city refused to pay the ransom and needed to restore its entire telematic infrastructure. They turned to their existing Arcserve backup and recovery solution to begin the recovery process.

Arcserve provided the city's last line of defense, allowing immediate recovery efforts to commence using data from its Oracle database and NetApp storage. While the full results are still unfolding, the Arcserve solution enabled the city to start creating a secure private network and begin reinstalling its basic infrastructure, mitigating the attack's impact after its other protections failed.

City of Palermo