Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Running Kubernetes in production takes real work. Patching control planes, managing upgrades, and keeping clusters highly available pulls engineers away from shipping applications. Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud removes that operational load. IBM runs the platform as a fully managed service, and your team keeps its attention on workloads.

Most teams find the holes in their recovery plans at the worst possible time: a flooded data center, failed storage array, or ransomware note sitting on the same server as the backup catalog. Offsite disaster recovery removes that single point of failure, but only when the copy is truly separated from production by geography, network path, and access control. Distance by itself won’t save you.

Ransomware crews go after backups first. Before any production file gets encrypted, they hunt down your backup catalog, snapshots, and repository credentials. The real question is whether your backups can survive an attacker who is actively trying to destroy them. This guide covers how to protect backups from ransomware with specifics: immutable and WORM storage, the 3-2-1-1-0 rule, air-gapping, network segmentation, encryption, and access controls that hold up under pressure.

My name is Kevin Jackson. I have been working with OpenStack since the first releases in various capacities — as an operator, author, architect, and currently at Trilio, where I assist organisations with cloud backup and recovery strategies. Over the years, I have watched OpenStack mature from an early-stage project into the core infrastructure underpinning demanding private and public clouds across telecoms, financial services, and the public sector.