Case Study: The Company recovers from ransomware with Panzura CloudFS

The Company contains ransomware in under 20 minutes with Panzura

The Company, a firm facing a catastrophic ransomware attack that encrypted thousands of files with the .CURATOR extension, needed to immediately contain the breach and recover its data without paying a ransom. The attack brought projects to a standstill and threatened the business's survival, requiring urgent assistance from its vendor, Panzura, and its CloudFS global file system.

Panzura's solution immediately contained the attack by disabling write access, forcing all locations into read-only mode to prevent further encryption. Using Panzura's immutable cloud storage and snapshot technology, the IT team rapidly restored the last clean versions of every file with no data loss. The result was that no critical production data was lost or unavailable for a significant time, allowing the firm to meet all client deadlines. Without Panzura, recovery would have taken weeks longer using traditional tape backups.