Scality pushes anti-ransomware features in Artesca object storage | Computer Weekly
Summary
Scality has launched version 2.0 of its Artesca platform, with a big emphasis on the ransomware protection inherent to object storage and its availability as a (virtual) appliance. Artesca is Scality’s object storage product aimed at single application use cases and is heavily targeted at data protection. In conjunction with a hardened Linux OS, Artesca leverages data immutability found in S3 object storage to build security functionality aimed at stopping ransomware attackers. “Immutable is a must-have, and we need to be strong on defence in case other layers in the stack are broken.” At the OS level Scality uses Linux, which Speciale describes as “hardened” via, for example, removing root access so that ransomware intruders cannot exploit it. The recent TechTarget/Computer Weekly IT Priorities Survey for 2023 found that 5% of respondents planned to deploy object storage this year, compared to 16% SAN, 11% NAS and 10% hyper-converged infrastructure.