Case Study: Gayron de Bruin achieves instant recovery from Cryptolocker ransomware with Axcient

Land Surveying and Engineering Company Beats Cryptolocker with Axcient

Gayron de Bruin (GdB), a Long Island land surveying and engineering firm serving A/E/C clients and government agencies, was relying on slow, costly tape-based backups and a local NAS that often failed to produce recent restore points. That vulnerability was exposed when Cryptolocker ransomware overnight encrypted network drives and threatened critical data and operations.

GdB deployed the Axcient Business Recovery Cloud—a hybrid solution with an onsite appliance and cloud virtualization—providing fast incremental backups, local/cloud failover, and granular SQL/Exchange recovery. When the ransomware hit, they spun up a virtual server from a restore point less than 30 minutes old and quickly restored clean files to the main server, avoiding significant downtime, lowering protection costs, and restoring confidence in their business continuity.

Gayron de Bruin

Jason Graf

Vice President