Thanks Del. You have confirmed what I suspected. We have had a conversation with our IBM sales rep/management team about Cobalt Iron. Unfortunately, there is a big push to move away from Spectrum Protect/Plus.
On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 2:01 PM Del Hoobler <hoob...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Take a look at Cobalt Iron Compass with Cyber Shield ( > https://www.cobaltiron.com/products/cyber-shield-data-security-feature/) > and Predatar (https://www.predatar.com/?prdLang=en-gb) which both have > integration with IBM Spectrum Protect and (BM Spectrum Protect Plus and can > help with your cyber needs. > > > ________________________________ > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> on behalf of Zoltan > Forray <zfor...@vcu.edu> > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2022 1:43 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] ANR3692W A client backup anomaly was detected > > We are going through a "security audit" and one of their questions was > *"Are > you able to test the integrity of back-ups prior to restoration to be > confident it is free from malware?"* > > I know there was the introduction of "*IBM Spectrum Protect detects > anomalies to workload patterns to alert administrators of potential > Ransomware infections for hypervisor-based workloads, enabling clients to > be aware of possible attacks and mitigate them before they spread.*" > > After we jumped from 7.1 to 8.1.12, we started seeing these messages all > the time but they don't seem to be of any value/accuracy/crying wolf so we > just ignore them: > > 03/21/2022 04:06:18 ANR3692W A client backup anomaly was detected for node > BLOGSDB.VCU.EDU, session number 46614. The average number of backed up > bytes is 1282827896, the actual number of backed up bytes was 4950926291, > the average data deduplication is 0 percent, and the actual > data deduplication was 0 percent. (SESSION: 46614) > > Your thoughts? Do you use something like Cobalt Iron to scan backups for > issues? > > -- > *Zoltan Forray* > Backup & VMware Systems Administrator > Enterprise Compute & Storage Platforms > VCU Infrastructure Services > www.ucc.vcu.edu<http://www.ucc.vcu.edu> > zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 > Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will > never use email to request that you reply with your password, social > security number or confidential personal information. For more details > visit http://phishing.vcu.edu/ > <https://adminmicro2.questionpro.com > > -- *Zoltan Forray* Backup & VMware Systems Administrator Enterprise Compute & Storage Platforms VCU Infrastructure Services www.ucc.vcu.edu zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://phishing.vcu.edu/ <https://adminmicro2.questionpro.com>
