BrickStor SP for Ransomware Defense
How Florida Keys Electric Cooperative safeguards critical data archives from ransomware with real-time visibility and active defense.
The Challenge
Following a 2015 ransomware incident and a surge of attacks on critical infrastructure — including the Colonial Pipeline and a local water treatment facility — Florida Keys Electric Cooperative needed a scalable solution that could provide real-time visibility and active defense for its data archives. Electric utilities faced 10% of all industrial-related ransomware attacks over the prior two years.
- Real-time visibility into file access patterns across the organization
- Active defense to detect and stop attacks before data is encrypted at scale
- Zero trust protection extending to archived and cold data
- Layered security on existing hyperconverged infrastructure without disruption
Results
- Stopped at the InterfaceFKEC staff can identify and stop an active attack directly from the BrickStor SP interface — no manual triage, no waiting for endpoint alerts.
- Confidence in 3 WeeksWithin three weeks of deployment, the team was already sold — before any incident, the platform had already demonstrated its value through real-time visibility alone.
- Layered on Existing InfrastructureBrickStor SP deployed as a virtual solution on top of existing hyperconverged infrastructure — no rip-and-replace, no network policy changes required.
- Zero Trust for Archived DataTransparent Data Movement and air gap protections extend zero trust policy to cold archives, preventing ransomware from encrypting backup data.
- Immutable Audit TrailSecond-by-second visibility into every file access — what was touched, who touched it, when, where, and why — with immutable snapshots for rapid recovery.
- Consolidated ToolingReplaced multiple disparate storage and security tools with a single platform, reducing operational complexity and response time.
“With BrickStor SP, I'm more confident in my data than ever before. I can stop an attack right there in the interface.”
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