Bringing automated, AI-powered recovery testing and advanced malware hunting to your existing storage estate has never been easier.
At Predatar, we’ve launched our third-generation cleanroom. Not only is CleanRoom 3 the most advanced cyber recovery cleanroom on the market, it’s also easy to deploy and easy to manage.
Our new CleanRoom has been re-designed from the ground up with one objective – to make adoption of recovery assurance technology achievable to more organisations than ever before.
Until now, complexity has been a real barrier to adoption. This short article explains how we’ve simplified deployment and management of cleanroom technology.
What is a Cyber Recovery Cleanroom?
Before we talk about how Predatar is making cleanroom technology quick and easy to deploy, let’s recap on what cleanrooms are, and why your organisation needs one.
The truth is, there is a significant risk that your backups and immutable snapshots contain malware or other recovery issues. This will jeopardise your incident response, and severely impact your ability to restore business-critical IT systems following a cyberattack, or any other data-loss event.
A cleanroom is a secure, isolated environment where your IT team can validate the integrity and recoverability of the data your organisation will rely on for recovery – before a crisis hits.
4 years of CleanRoom implementations
CleanRoom 1: The original
Built for IBM Storage Protect backup environments, Predatar’s first generation Cyber Recovery Cleanroom was a game-changer. Previously, Cleanrooms (or Isolated Recovery Environments as they were commonly referred to at the time) were little more than a concept – often just an architectural design or blueprint, which could be deployed as a reactive tool for validating data in a crisis scenario.
When Predatar launched CleanRoom 1 in 2021, it was the first ‘productised’ cyber recovery cleanroom solution available. Not only did this make proactive cyber recovery testing a reality for IBM backup customers, but Predatar’s user-friendly software layer made day-to-day operation easy.
The difficult bit was deployment. Every storage estate is different, and every CleanRoom implementation needed a tailored design. A typical deployment would require 10-15 days of implementation services from highly skilled Predatar engineers. What’s more, each CleanRoom deployment would require new hardware or cloud infrastructure to be purchased and configured – sometimes adding weeks or months to the deployment depending on hardware availability.
CleanRoom 2: Multi-vendor support and faster deployments
The release of CleanRoom 2 in 2023 was another huge step forward. By extending support beyond IBM backup products to Cohesity, Veeam and Rubrik, and later adding capabilities to validate Immutable Snapshots on IBM FlashSystem and Pure Storage, Predatar had opened up the possibilities of recovery assurance to many more organisations.
Other enhancements followed, including integrations with leading SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) platforms, AI-powered reporting, and more.
Despite CleanRoom 2 delivering greatly enhanced capabilities, the Predatar R&D team managed to significantly simplify deployments. Now a Predatar implementation could be completed in 3-5 days by an experienced Predatar Engineer, or one of Predatar’s APEX partners.
CleanRoom 3: Recovery Assurance For All
Our 3rd-generation CleanRoom marks another big leap forward. CleanRoom 3 has been designed to make Recovery Assurance technology accessible to more organisations than ever before, by breaking down the barriers to adoption. The cost and complexity of deployment has been one of those barriers.
Cleanroom 3 can be deployed on existing infrastructure, in less than one day, without the need for extensive training.
Here’s what’s changed…
New: ISO-based deployment
The most significant change, is that CleanRoom 3 is delivered as a self-contained virtual appliance. Users configure their cleanroom via a step-by-step setup wizard, before downloading a self-contained ISO image.
The ISO includes all the required components, pre-configured using the inputs from the wizard. Assuming the technical pre-reqs and minimum requirements are met, the ISO image can simply be installed on existing hardware or Cloud Infrastructure, and can be up and running in as little as 2 hours.
New: No third-party licences
Previously, Predatar customers would need to purchase VMware and third-party XDR (Extended Endpoint Detection & Response) licences for the CleanRoom. Not only did this add cost and administrative work, but it also added complexity to the setup, as the CleanRoom would need to be configured to recognise the licence keys for the third-party products.
With CleanRoom 3, the need for third-party licences has gone away. CleanRoom 3 doesn’t require VMware and the XDR licensing is now baked-in to your Predatar subscription.
New: Automated updates
CleanRoom 3.0 leverages continuous updates to ensure the platform remains secure, up-to-date, and optimised without requiring manual intervention. The system continuously downloads updates and enhancements from Predatar’s Git repository. This ensures that CleanRoom 3.0 is always equipped with the latest security improvements, malware definitions, and performance optimisations.
By automating the update process, CleanRoom 3.0 eliminates the need for manual updates by engineers, reducing the risk of human error, saving time, and ensuring that the system is always running the most current version.
Time to think again about CleanRooms?
If you think that achieving recovery assurance for your organisation is complicated, think again. With CleanRoom 3 from Predatar, you can bring automated, AI-powered recovery testing and malware interrogation to your existing storage environment in a matter of days.
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