Protect High-Value Targets

Epoch Data Protection policies allow customers to maintain nearline archives of high-value target folders principally stored in a network file system. Data Owners can view and access the archive of the high-value target as it existed at a selected point in the past, making it a “time machine” for the high-value target.

From the administrative interface, the data owner can quickly recover data assignments that might need to be recovered as a result of:

• Ransomware attacks resulting in encrypted or destroyed files
• Inadvertently corrupted, deleted, or lost files
• Updates to a file that need to be recovered back to an earlier time in the past

Similarly, the data owner can also recover security assignments that might need to be recovered because of:

• Lost or destroyed security assignments
• Inadvertently changed security assignments
• Updated security assignments that need to be recovered back to an earlier time in the past

Epoch Data Protection policies are not intended to replace an enterprise’s primary backup system. They are meant to be a way to place additional and alternative protections on specific high-value targets. An organization might choose to use Epoch Data Protection policies for any of the following reasons:

• More granular view and access to data and security
• More direct control over the protection process for high-value targets
• Primary backup system failure
• Primary backup media failure
• Delays in data recovery from the primary backup system
• Demonstration of increased commitment to data protection for high-value targets