Database Protection and Ransomware Resiliency
Oracle’s zero data loss recovery solutions, co-engineered with Oracle AI Database, protect your transactions in real time, continuously validate backup integrity, and provide real-time database recovery status, preparing you to recover from ransomware attacks.
Protecting against ransomware attacks is critical
Ransomware attacks can impact all aspects of a business.
Uptime
Hundreds
of hours of downtime can follow ransomware attack
Data
Thousands
of transactions can be lost in just seconds
Revenue
Millions
of dollars can be lost without a response plan
Source: https://www.cybereason.com/hubfs/dam/collateral/ebooks/Ransomware-True-Cost-2024-eBook.pdf
Why choose Oracle’s zero data loss recovery solutions?
Purpose-built and co-engineered with Oracle AI Database, these solutions provide unmatched zero data loss protection and robust ransomware resilience, with fast and reliable recovery you can trust—defending, protecting, and recovering your data by default.
Zero data loss protection
Recover your Oracle AI Database right up to the last committed transaction with real-time redo transport. Minimize data loss and provide rapid business continuity.
Database-aware anomaly detection
Continuously validate the consistency of your Oracle AI Database backup data and receive automatic alerts for any potential compromises—all without impacting your production workloads. Stay informed about your backup health at all times.
Fastest database recovery
Recover up to 60 terabytes per hour using innovative virtual full restore capabilities. Skip the time-consuming process of restoring and applying incremental backups and get back online faster.
Best-in-class backup resource optimization
Use an incremental forever backup strategy with virtual full backups to maximize resource utilization on your production databases. Eliminate costly full backups and lengthy recovery operations common with other solutions.
Space-efficient encrypted backups—only from Oracle
Compress Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) database backups with a unique, Oracle-native algorithm. Combined with the incremental forever backup strategy, you can reduce your storage footprint by 10X to 30X compared to other recovery solutions.
Deep insights into database protection
Monitor your entire backup lifecycle and recovery metrics in real time with a database-centric view. Get instant alerts to manage day-to-day operations and stay ahead of issues. Access out-of-the-box detailed and summary reports, including backup performance, recovery window status, and current data loss exposure, so you stay in control and fully informed about your data protection.
Three key pillars of ransomware readiness strategies
1
Defend
If security is breached, end-to-end data encryption, backup immutability, and strong access controls throughout the data lifecycle are foundational to preventing data theft or malicious altercation.
2
Protect
Backups are the last line of defense in recovering operations impacted by a cyberattack, and the frequency of backups determines your data loss exposure. Continuous data protection allows you to recover to the point immediately prior to an incident.
3
Recover
Database recovery is dependent on the validity of backups, making backups imperative. Oracle AI Database backups are validated, confirming all backup pieces are available and readable by the database, and successful recovery depends on it.
Stay ahead of ransomware with Oracle database security and zero data loss solutions
Data theft and extortion
Ransomware attacks actively steal data to exfiltrate sensitive information often without destroying it. Attackers lock access and threaten to publish or sell the stolen data unless a ransom is paid, using extortion instead of outright destruction to pressure victims.
Encrypted databases and backups
Transparent Data Encryption is Oracle’s native solution for encrypting data at its source, and our recommended approach for protecting sensitive data within databases and backups. It secures data at the storage level so that even if ransomware scrapes data directly from disks or exfiltrates backups, the stolen data remains unreadable without the encryption keys, which are securely managed in systems such as Oracle Key Vault.
Features
Backups compromised
Ransomware attacks frequently target backup data, blocking access to critical information and systems. This leads to permanent data loss and significantly delays recovery.
Immutable and validated backups
Oracle’s zero data loss recovery solutions enforce backup immutability and continuously validate all backups—not just a sample—to provide data integrity and prevent unauthorized tampering. Our solutions enable strict role-based separation of duties so no single user can impact both production and backup environments. This isolation supports cyber vault scenarios and helps organizations enforce strong security policies across backup infrastructures.
Features
Deployment model
Production system outage
Ransomware attacks frequently target backup data, blocking access to critical information and systems. This leads to permanent data loss and significantly delays recovery.
Fast recovery without data loss
Oracle’s recovery solutions provide real-time transaction protection, enabling organizations to recover critical databases to the exact state of the last committed transaction immediately before a ransomware attack. By capturing and preserving every transaction in real time, Oracle minimizes data loss and provides dependable recovery—not just the ability to restore, but to restore with confidence.
Features
Zero data loss recovery and ransomware solutions
On-premises
In the event of an attack, Recovery Appliance enables the database to recover directly to a new environment without data loss. Backups are safeguarded from attacks through strict access controls and immutability, while continuous validation confirms their recoverability. Real-time recovery metrics are displayed on the user dashboard, providing immediate visibility into backup health. For added protection, organizations can replicate backups to a separate appliance within an air-gapped cyber vault, fully isolated from production and disaster recovery sites and invisible to potential threats. Additionally, this architecture supports rapid recovery into dedicated isolated recovery or clean room environments, enabling organizations to securely analyze and remediate incidents without compromising the integrity or security of production systems.
Cloud
Unique, automated capabilities protect Oracle AI Database transactions in real time, automatically validating backups without production database overhead and enabling fast, predictable recovery to any point in time. Recovery Service makes zero data loss protection and ransomware resiliency accessible to virtually any-size organization and budget with no upfront costs and pay-as-you-go economics—you only pay for amount of storage used. For additional assurance, Recovery Service allows organizations to recover databases into isolated recovery environments in separate compartments, enabling secure incident analysis and recovery without exposing production systems or jeopardizing backup integrity.
Oracle AI Database security improves ransomware resiliency
Natively assess security risks
Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool provides prioritized recommendations on how to mitigate identified security risks or gaps within Oracle AI Database. The tool profiles the security and compliance posture of databases by evaluating the current state, including configuration, discovering sensitive data and more.
Protect data at rest in the database layer
Transparent Data Encryption enforces data-at-rest encryption in the database layer, stopping would-be attackers from bypassing the database and reading sensitive information directly from storage.
Mitigate insider threats at the source
Reduce the risk of insider and outside threats and address compliance requirements, including separation of duties. Oracle Database Vault implements data security controls within Oracle AI Database to restrict access to application data by privileged users.
Unified data security control center
Understand data sensitivity, evaluate configuration risks, assess user security, monitor user activity, and manage Oracle AI Database 26ai’s SQL Firewall—all in a single, unified console. Oracle Data Safe helps you manage the day-to-day security and compliance requirements across your Oracle Databases, both on-premises and in the cloud.
All-in-one data security posture management
Consolidate audit logs, monitor database activity, and gain insight into data and configurations. Audit Vault and Database Firewall helps manage the security posture of Oracle and non-Oracle databases, in the cloud or on-premises.
Mask data without performance loss
Unlock the value of data without exposing sensitive information, while also minimizing storage costs. Data Masking and Subsetting helps organizations achieve secure and cost-effective data sharing for a variety of scenarios, including test, development, and partner environments.
Ransomware Resiliency: Defending and Recovering Oracle Databases from Attacks
Allen Best, Oracle Product ManagerOne of the biggest threats to both individuals and organizations in the digital age is the threat of ransomware. This kind of malware encrypts the data of its victims making it unreadable unless the attacker pays the ransom. Protecting your databases requires understanding ransomware, how it works and how to recover in the event of an attack.
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This workshop is a hands-on lab dedicated to the features and functionality of Oracle AI Database security against the most common cyberattacks.
Workshop duration: 45 min
This workshop is a hands-on lab dedicated to learn how to protect and recover Oracle databases running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in the event of a ransomware attack.
Workshop duration: 2 hours