- Recent Marks & Spencer -attacks reveal deficiencies in current company’s backup strategies
- Hyperbunks push offline storage while critics ask costs and practical
- Data Diodes create one -way channels that keep vaults disconnected from network
Major UK Retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) was recently hit by a ransomware attack that disturbed internal systems and allegedly locked employees out of critical files.
The incident is part of a broader trend with cyber criminals aimed at large organizations with ransomware attacks and requires payment to restore access.
This hack could have been prevented if backups were isolated, thus preventing attackers from encrypting or deleting M&S’s data, but this “unbelievable” approach brings its own financial burdens.
Data Diodes and Physical Insulation As Protection of Last Extraction
Hyperbunker, a Zagreb-based spinoff of Infolab, promotes its diode-based offline vault as a protection against such violations.
This system writes backups using Data Diode Technology, a method that creates a strictly one -way “data -in” channel.
Backups are stored on SSDs or disk drives in a rack-shelf chassis that is completely disconnected from external networks.
This idea, well known in nuclear facilities and military installations, has rarely been seen in everyday business data protection.
The company insists that its vault remains invisible in network infrastructures and therefore cannot be reached for hackers.
“You see servers and run sent in [to InfoLAB] From all over Europe, companies locked out of their own data. And why does this happen if they have perfect cyber protection tools? “Investor and adviser Matt Peterman told Blocking spirit files.
“Sometimes it is due to hardware errors and often due to ransomware. And in these ransomware -cases, nino [Nino Eškić, InfoLAB’s CEO] Could do very little except to suggest negotiating through brokers. This frustration is what pushed him to design an offline protection that actually preserves the most critical data. “
Hyperbunker claims its patented optical insulation and “Butling Logic”, which was introduced in October 2024, avoids vulnerabilities bound to network protocols or utilization of handshake that has plagued previously diode -based systems.
Despite its promise, the concept raises concerns because traditional backups have collapsed or were bypassed in the past.
This happened in cases involving capital content, social health systems, VEEAM clients and NHS.
Offline -storage is not a magical shield, though hyper -bunker claims “The only vulnerability is the unit’s physical theft.”
Distribution of devices and encryption of stored data can reduce the risk, yet multiplying the logistical and financial requirement.
Companies already juggling with multiple backup solutions may be hesitant to invest in a secondary “backup of backups.”
While the device is marketed as simple and removes dependence on complex protocol stacks, its effectiveness depends on careful handling and secure locations.
Companies that weigh this approach must consider whether the cost, logistics and potential for physical theft outweigh the protection of the offer.
