Case Study: Conversant Group achieves rapid ransomware recovery and faster restores with Unitrends

Conversant Group - Customer Case Study

A mid-sized manufacturing company in Tennessee was crippled by a 2019 ransomware attack after an employee opened a malicious email. Their Barracuda appliance and cloud backups failed to restore reliably—missing files and broken restores—forcing the company to pay ransom on three critical servers and bringing operations to a near halt. Conversant Group was brought in to manage recovery and harden their defenses.

Conversant deployed a Unitrends Recovery appliance (plus Spanning Backup for O365, Unitrends Forever Cloud and DRaaS), immediately backing recovered data to Unitrends where automatic ransomware detection was triggered. Using instant recovery they restored all data in hours following a subsequent storage controller failure, and added 8TB of cloud plus DRaaS with a 1-hour recovery SLA—delivering faster, more reliable recoveries and significantly lowering the risk of repeat attacks.

Conversant Group

John Smith

Chief Executive Officer