Synology ActiveProtect: Closing the Cyber Resilience Gap in Indian Enterprises
India’s digital transformation has created significant opportunities, but at the same time, it has also exposed organisations to heightened cybersecurity risks. In 2024 alone, 95 organisations in the country suffered data breaches, making it the second most targeted nation globally for cyberattacks, according to CloudSEK’s ThreatLandscape Report. These breaches are costly. IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report highlights that the average cost of a breach in India has risen to ₹19.5 crore, particularly impacting industries such as technology and pharmaceuticals. The growing complexity of IT environments, coupled with hybrid work setups and increasing reliance on cloud-based systems, has made enterprises vulnerable to sophisticated threats like infostealers. IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2024 reports a staggering 266% rise in the infostealer malware, which silently collects sensitive credentials to infiltrate systems undetected. Moreover, regulatory changes such as India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023 have added pressure on organisations to ensure robust data protection measures. The Act emphasises user consent, data localisation, and accountability for data processors, making compliance an essential yet challenging task for businesses. In this environment, Indian organisations must move beyond treating cybersecurity as a reactive IT function. What’s required is a broader, strategic approach to data protection — one that not only prepares organisations to recover from breaches but actively reduces the likelihood and impact of such incidents. This means adopting the 3-2-1-1-0 backup strategy, where enterprises maintain three copies of data across two different media types, with one stored offsite, one kept offline or air-gapped, and zero errors confirmed through regular integrity checks. Immutability and air-gapped backups are especially critical as attackers increasingly target backup infrastructure to cripple recovery attempts. Equally important is ensuring that backups are verifiably restorable. Simply backing up data is not enough. Enterprises must conduct frequent backup verification, detect data corruption early, and enable rapid recovery to minimise downtime. In today’s distributed IT environments, where multiple backup systems operate across different geographies and platforms, a centralised management system becomes essential. A CMS that brings visibility, automation, and policy consistency under a single interface can substantially reduce operational friction, particularly for sectors like BFSI, healthcare, and government that manage sensitive data and operate under regulatory scrutiny. These strategies form the foundation of modern cyber resilience, and they must be paired with solutions that execute them effectively and at scale. ActiveProtect, Synology’s dedicated backup and recovery appliance, is built around these principles. It addresses the vulnerabilities exposed by conventional systems, bringing together performance, security, and simplicity into one integrated platform. Designed to address the rising costs of data breaches and the complexity of modern IT systems, ActiveProtect delivers exceptional backup and recovery speeds while minimising data transmission and maximising storage efficiency. Contemporary ransomware attacks have evolved to be highly sophisticated. They frequently target backup systems to ensure that any attempts by an organisation to recover data compromise the backups themselves. ActiveProtect tackles this critical vulnerability head-on with a multi-layered approach to backup protection. It stores backups in air-gapped environments to prevent unauthorised access, ensures immutability through Write Once Read Many (WORM) structures to safeguard against tampering, and conducts regular automated integrity checks to guarantee recoverability. These features collectively enhance cyber resilience, empowering organisations to protect their data against sophisticated threats. Simplified Multi-Site, Multi-Vendor Management Today, industries like BFSI (banking, financial services, and insurance), healthcare, and government face significant challenges in managing data protection across multiple sites and vendors. These sectors often operate under stringent regulatory requirements, handle sensitive data, and rely on uninterrupted operations. For instance, healthcare providers must ensure patient data remains secure while adhering to HIPAA or similar compliance standards, while BFSI organisations grapple with safeguarding financial transactions amidst rising cyber threats. Managing backups across sprawling networks can be daunting. IT teams often struggle with fragmented systems, inconsistent security policies, and manual configurations that drain time and resources. Synology ActiveProtect simplifies this with a centralised interface that brings everything under one roof. IT teams can oversee up to 2,500 locations and 150,000 workloads from a single console, significantly reducing operational complexity. The platform also automates the application of protection policies to new workloads, eliminating the need for manual configuration and ensuring consistent security across the organisation. Additionally, ActiveProtect supports cross-platform recovery, enabling seamless restorations between different hypervisors, including Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) and Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) scenarios. This flexibility ensures efficient data recovery regardless of the underlying infrastructure. By streamlining operations and avoiding vendor lock-in, ActiveProtect enables enterprises to manage diverse environments with greater ease and efficiency. Performance Highlights ActiveProtect Appliance delivers exceptional performance, ensuring minimal disruption to daily operations. It backs up seven times faster than traditional methods, reducing downtime and ensuring business continuity. Recovery speeds are twice as fast, facilitating rapid resumption of services post-incident. Advanced deduplication techniques reduce storage requirements by 50% while minimising network load with a 99% decrease in data transmission during backups. ActiveProtect Appliance centralises the backup of diverse workloads, including SaaS applications, virtual machines, physical servers, personal computers, Macs, file servers, and databases. This consolidation ensures swift recovery and uninterrupted service availability. Deployment is fast, allowing organisations to establish robust data protection within minutes. The appliance offers features such as data corruption detection and restoration, backup verification, and disaster recovery testing in isolated environments using built-in hypervisors. As mentioned, it safeguards against ransomware through immutable backups and air-gapped storage solutions. Moreover, the recovery options are versatile, supporting bare-metal and file-level restorations. Role-based access controls further enhance data security by regulating permissions for workload restoration and data viewing. Conclusion AIM believes that Indian organisations must take a business-first view of cybersecurity, understanding that compromised data not only disrupts operations but also damages customer trust, regulatory standing, and long-term competitiveness. In a market facing rising attacks and complex infrastructure, enterprises need tools that combine performance, resilience, and simplicity. Synology’s ActiveProtect Appliance meets these needs head-on, offering a purpose-built solution for enterprises ready to strengthen their defence posture and close the resilience gap in a cutthroat digital landscape. Learn more about Synology ActiveProtect Appliance. Request a professional consultation from Synology’s experts.
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India’s digital transformation has created significant opportunities, but at the same time, it has also exposed organisations to heightened cybersecurity risks. In 2024 alone, 95 organisations in the country suffered data breaches, making it the second most targeted nation globally for cyberattacks, according to CloudSEK’s ThreatLandscape Report.
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