Ransomware has become increasingly ruthless, with attackers often targeting backups before making their presence known. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This means that by the time an enterprise realises it is under attack, its backups have been encrypted or leaked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The World Economic Forum’s 2025 Global Cybersecurity Outlook<\/strong><\/a> finds ransomware is a top concern for global CEOs and CISOs alike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For organisations across Africa, the risk of being hit by ransomware has increased exponentially. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Interpol<\/a><\/strong>, cybercrime is rising across the continent and accounts for more than 30% of all reported crime in Western and Eastern Africa, and there were nearly 18,000 ransomware detections in South Africa alone last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The impacts of ransomware attacks can be devastating – costly ransoms – which growing numbers of victims opt to pay, as well as fines, the cost of remediation efforts and extensive downtime, and the potential for serious reputational damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As ransomware attackers become more devious, the traditional approach to backups is no longer enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once, the 3-2-1 rule – making three copies of your data, storing them on two different types of storage media, and keeping one of those copies off-site – was considered best practice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, this approach is becoming obsolete, since any malware will most likely be backed up across all connected backup storage devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The safer approach is the 3-2-1-1 strategy, with one additional copy that is completely isolated and immutable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Huawei Cloud’s Cloud Backup and Recovery (CBR) uses a 3-2-1-1 strategy and WORM (Write Once, Read Many) technology to create an immutable, offline copy no attacker can ever delete or encrypt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This makes it possible to restore your data from the last, airgapped device, even if all other copies have been compromised. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Huawei Cloud\u2019s immutable backup vaults redefine data protection with simple, efficient backup for multiple types of cloud servers, including ECS, HECS, and BMS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The solution is elastic and cost-effective, because you only pay for what you use, which greatly reduces fixed asset investments and backup costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Huawei Cloud\u2019s CBR is part of an extensive portfolio of Huawei Cloud integrated, end-to-end data resilience and cloud security solutions to turn security concerns into security confidence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This is in line with the directive from Zhengfei Ren, the founder of Huawei, who said: “Place the company’s responsibility for safeguarding our customers’ cybersecurity and business above our own commercial interests.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Huawei Cloud invests heavily in R&D to continually raise the security posture of our cloud products and services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Huawei Cloud has over 120 international security and compliance certifications including PCI 3DS, TISAX, ISO 27799, ISO\/IEC 27701, ISO\/IEC 27034, CSA STAR V4, SOC 2 Type 2, and Germany\u2019s C5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Huawei has also led and participated in the development of more than 10 cloud security standards, and released more than 50 security white papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not only have we built an outstandingly secure and trustworthy cloud platform, we also share our security and compliance experience and capabilities as services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Customers can take advantage of more than 20 Huawei Cloud native security services and over 400 products aggregated in our ecosystem to build a comprehensive security system, says from Huawei Cloud South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Combining over 20 years of experience with systematic, practical, and intelligent security operations, global security compliance capabilities, and full-stack technical coverage, Huawei Cloud has built a full-stack security service system that features one advanced security centre and seven layers of defense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This ensures service continuity, data security, and continuous compliance, and makes Huawei Cloud one of the most secure clouds in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With Huawei Cloud\u2019s deep commitment to best practice security, it\u2019s no wonder thousands of leading international enterprises depend on us to help secure their systems, data and operations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Our customers include household names in the government, manufacturing, automotive, finance, energy, IT, transport and logistics sectors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, Air China depends on Huawei Cloud for its anti-tampering system for multiple cloud native scenarios, uses SecMaster for its unified security operations, and harnesses various Huawei Cloud security services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Integrated cloud native security and operations by Huawei Cloud safeguard FAW Toyota’s digital transformation; and Xishanju Games leverages a Terabyte scale cloud native anti-DDoS service by Huawei Cloud to ensure uninterrupted gaming experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To learn more about Huawei Cloud\u2019s Cloud Backup and Recovery (CBR), go to: https:\/\/www.huaweicloud.com\/intl\/en-us\/product\/cbr.html<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nHuawei Cloud\u2019s extensive security portfolio<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n