Case Study: Sumter County achieves rapid ransomware recovery and reliable disaster recovery with Zerto

Sumter County Recovers Seamlessly from a Cyber Attack with Zerto

Sumter County, South Carolina, the local government serving more than 100,000 residents and supporting critical services near Shaw Air Force Base, needed an always-on IT environment to keep public safety, utilities and transactions running. Prior to Zerto they relied on tape backups and suffered multi-day outages from physical failures, and later faced a ransomware breach of their Drupal site that threatened extended downtime.

By deploying Zerto’s IT Resilience Platform across four sites to protect systems from SQL databases to law enforcement records, Sumter County used Zerto’s journal-based recovery to roll back to seconds before the ransomware event and restore services quickly. The county now conducts bi-annual DR tests with confidence, has eliminated recurring days-long outages, and is prepared to extend the environment into a hybrid cloud.

Sumter County

John Hamilton

Systems Administrator