THIS IS A SECURE PROJECT. DO NOT PUBLISH.​​​​​​

*** Project suspended as resources are required to work on higher priority workstreams.  It is estimated that resource will become available beyond December 24, although current recruitment restrictions may impact this.

Conclusion of data ingest is estimated August 25

Immutable storage;

With the cyber threat increasing at pace the university is exploring solutions for a rapid return of service to Data and Applications following a Ransomeware attack.

Initially business critical services and data have been identified and will be written to Immutable storage.

This project will identify infrastructure requirements to support such a solution, their procurement and installation to the service delivery components required to effectively being the pre agreed data and application back into service.

Scope

This project is to build a secure environment that can provide a level of protection to the University of a widescale ransomware attack against the Universities primary research and service group storage – Datastore.  Data will be held separately from existing backup service and is not intended to provide a longer backup window for users’ data.  The intention is to build this around immutable tapes to prevent data tampering after ingesting.  While, we will be creating a platform for testing restores, this will not include having the equipment to fully restore datastore.