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We're building the system for scratch is
an option, especially to eliminate any kind

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of attack, but it's not practical. Welcome listeners to the Industrial Security Podcast.

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My name is Nate Nelson. I'm
here with Andrew Ginter, the vice

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president of Industrial Security at Waterfall Security
Solutions, who's going to be introducing the

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subject and guest of our show today. Andrew, how's it going. I'm

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very well, Thank you, Niate. Our guest today is Alex yev Tshenko.

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He is the CEO and co founder
of Salvador Technologies, and Salvador does

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resilience. They do rapid recovery after
an attack. So you know, we've

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been talking a lot about preventing,
detecting, responding. This is the recovery

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piece of the puzzle. Then,
without further Ado, here's your conversation with

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Alex. Hello Alex, and welcome
to the podcast. Before we get started,

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can I ask you to say a
few words about your background and about

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the good work that you're doing at
Salvador Technology. Hello Andrew, and thank

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you for inviting me. I'm Alex, CEO and co founder of Salvador Technologies.

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I'm coming from electrical engineering background with
a lot of experience in software development

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more than ten years and more five
years in the R and D field,

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more technological and a bit of a
business part. My goal was to establish

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the R and D department and the
company I worked for and bring I brought

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dozens of product from the Idea to
the market. Salvador Technology established three years

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ago by me and my co founder
Legusiker, who is also a good friend

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of mine. Only coming from a
national cyber security unit in the Idea with

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more than ten years experience in cyber
My background was always background to my daily

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job, so together we established Salvador. What we are doing in Salvador is

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providing fastest and most complete recovery solutions
for cyber attacks. We actually redefined the

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cyber resilience for ICs and all the
organizations you mentioned resilience. Our topic is

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resilience for industrial operations. I mean
the textbook definition of resilience is like a

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spring. You deform something, you
put it under pressure, it changes and

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then it comes back. That's a
x book definition, you know in the

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industrial cybersecurity space. To you,
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Okay? First of all, I
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I think the recovery in the real
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determined. It's resilience actually goes beyond
definition of preventing bridge resilience. It make

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proactive measures to regain the operations once
attack a course, and in terms of

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recovery, it means have robust recovery
solutions to ensure the organizations continue the operations

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as it was before. Like you
mentioned the spring, the organization should minimize

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the impact of the downtime time and
swiftly restore all the operations and all the

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processes. For example, image a
ransomwhare heat manufacturing facilities as it goes down,

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all the chmi stopped, the machines
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or even weeks the average time in
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And now imagine you can click a
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stage before the attack. Now downtime, no impact on the organization, exactly

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like a spring. Okay, so
coming back to you know, the in

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a sense, the magic button recovery
is something that you know, we have

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not had a lot of guests on
the show talk about. You know,

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the next framework is govern identify,
protect, detect, respond, recover.

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We've had a lot of people actually
talking about detection and to some extent response,

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not so much recovery. I mean, in my understanding, there's at

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least two ways to recover an industrial
system after it's been compromised. You can

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rebuild from original known good media,
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scratch if you like, reapplying any
changes that you've made over time. You

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can restore from backups, but you
know that can get tricky as well.

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Are your backups synchronized? You have
one from three months ago before you made

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a bunch of changes, and another
system from right now, and you don't

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have one on the other system from
three months ago. The whole question of

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recovery seems complicated, and indeed,
rebuilding the system for scratch is an option,

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especially to eliminate any kind of attack, but it's not practical, so

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let's not discuss this one. But
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backups are an important part for resilience. The think is the backups used today

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are more IT centric centered IT focused. They are focused on the data.

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Many required cloud connection or internet connection
or always online that are accessible to the

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internet, accessible to the attacker that
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Another part of backups that are a
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let's say, is managing manual backups
of the system. Actually taking USB

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drive from system to system to take
a snapshot, take an image, and

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place it to safe location. And
this is very long process and not efficient

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process. And this is all why
their recovery takes so long, an average

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of twenty days, about three weeks
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And this is a probablem we need
to solve. Nate, let me

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jump in with a couple of concrete
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textbook high profile case was Colonial.
They took something like five and a half

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six days to recover their IT network
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to my knowledge in the public reports, ransomware did not get into their OT

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network, so they didn't have to
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just the IT side took them five
six days. I mean, they paid

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the ransom, they got the decryption
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that that decryption tool would solve the
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didn't. They went back to restoring
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infrastructure. You know, I don't
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don't know if they had what kind
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know, even an IT infrastructure where
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your fingertips, Internet based or not, took you know, five and a

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half six days, and I've heard
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much much longer than that, weeks
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he mentioned as well, you know, the possibility of manual backups if

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you don't have a lot of infrastructure. You know, what he didn't mention

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is what I worry about with manual
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an automated system, you get an
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doing it manually and you forget a
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It's it's error prone, is what
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would have, and it's possible that
you guys addressed later in the interview,

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is that you know, the obvious
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the most dramatic attacks today ransomware is
extortion, is having those backups ready and

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able. But of course attackers know
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is a relatively new trend or if
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heard of cases where ransomware actors specifically
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you have over them. Absolutely,
And you know, he didn't gloss over

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it. He mentioned it only briefly. He said, you know, USB

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is a way that you know,
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to do that. You know,
A disadvantage is that it's manual. An

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advantage is that it's offline. When
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and the bad guys can encrypt the
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they don't have access to the USB
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manual backups in essense have both advantages
and disadvantages. That's a lot of problems

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with sort of the existing conventional approach
to recovery and backups. You know,

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again, we're coming back to the
magic button. If we want to be

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able to recover fast from cyber attacks, how do we do that, Well,

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let's divide it to three aspects.
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it means backup not just the data, but the entire system. Two is

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protecting the backup from the attacker and
not having them accessible and online. I

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mean make offline air gup backups that
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three is the available ability you need
them immediately in the need, the ability

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to use them at the moment that
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the optimal cover strategy would involve make
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them clean and available when you need
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to be maximally compatible with the OT
environment, you've got to back up the

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entire system. You know, how
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vendors, you know, they they
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third party stuff being installed on their
machines. You know, sometimes there are

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you know, real time databases that
are open and are being updated. What

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does it mean to take a backup
the of the entire system? How do

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you deal with this? It's a
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As in the industrial systems, you
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a backup, and you don't want
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your systems. So actually what we
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to the out it means first copy
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licenses and also make it on the
fly when the system is running and the

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machine is producing. To implement technologies
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without stopping the system and the software. And make the takes the data backup

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data when while it's used, and
make sure it is still working and competible

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for use later than you need it. Making a copy of the whole system

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makes sense. But you know you
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you know, to protect the backups
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to use the backups they have to
be online. That that sounds like a

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contradiction. Can you can you explain
what's going on there? This is exactly

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what we are doing in Savaur technology
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technology to protect the backups. We
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in our platform. We have the
cyber Recovery unit we call it CRU that

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is always connected to the system.
Inside it includes three and VMI disks,

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three full copies of the hard disk, including the operational system, data configuration

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and licenses. At every single moment, has only one disc accessible available to

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the computer to copy all the data
immediately after the backup. The disc is

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disconnected. Every day we switch the
discs to make it updated. So three

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disks, three full copies, different
in time, and this means air gap

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from one side because it's actually electronically
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the drive from the other hand,
it's always updated every day, full new

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copy of the entire computer. And
additionally, the software that makes the copy

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of the computer is the making a
copy in a bootable mode. It means

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when you need it, you just
restart the computer and click a button on

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the device boot from our device instead
of the corrupted hard drive. That's way

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it takes just thirty seconds to recover
using our device, using our device.

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Cool. Because I was going to
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network impact of doing all these backups
over the network, but I guess that's

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that's not a question that's worth asking. So that's interesting. Let me ask

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you though. You said that inside
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You rotate between them daily. They're
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Does daily work? I mean,
you know, do we not have

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ransomware scenarios? Whether ransomware goes in
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encrypt the entire drive and you don't
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is encrypted. You know? Do
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like a week old, month old? How does that work? Actually?

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From our experience, most of our
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but we have also backups every two
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that not change too much in the
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However, we do realize the need
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have three drives. We call them
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and previous are rotata daily as you
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probably without the virus. It's old
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updated enough to be relevant and not
just the ROW system without the configuration and

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all the working systems. So this
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you run your boot from the current
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there, Baseline will be clean.
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capabilities to try and detect animalys and
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And this is additional direction that we
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help customers not just to have a
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than just air grap So, Andrew, we're talking here about this this three

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drive system with the button that you
press. What literally are we looking at?

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Like? Can you paint a picture
of what his solution is? Short

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answer is I didn't ask him physically
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a button? But my understanding is
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there are you know, physically three
he called them envm's you know, non

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volatile memory, so it could be
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three persistent stores that are part of
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this hardware unit, you know,
I'm guessing, looks box like. It

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looks like, you know what you
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It's sort of a metal box with
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the computer as if it were another
hard drive. It connects to the computer

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using the same kind of connection as
your hard drives use. I see,

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and so with the three drive system, the short term drives for you know,

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drive one drive too, and then
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you update like after a month or
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presumably like if if your first two
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to the third one, But then
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have known about it in the time
since, because I know there are a

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lot of you know, cyber attacks
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it. Actually, let me ask
sort of a question that was left over

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in my mind from my previous answer
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backup drives, my understanding is you
reboot the machine, and you know,

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during the boot sequence, instead of
booting from the regular hard drive that's now

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corrupted, you boot from one of
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backup I didn't ask that. You
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the drive that you have to touch, or you know, on the on

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the computer that you touch saying use
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don't know. There's different ways you
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now the question becomes, you know, can I use the version that

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I've rebooted from. And my question
was sometimes ransomware sort of takes a long

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time. If you have six hundred
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of it's old, you know,
old database, old whatever, you might

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not notice that. You know it's
taking three days to encrypt and if you

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do a backup after a day,
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After two days you've backed up mostly
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you discovered the problem. You try
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are you know, one third and
two thirds encrypted as well. So you

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know you might be able to get
function out by back, but your old

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data is gone. This is where
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really old backup. And some attacks
to your point, you know the volt

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typhoon that we heard about recently,
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attack, Chinese intelligence agencies breaking into
critical infrastructure IT networks. They hang around

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from months, you know, up
to six months was reported, but they're

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not encrypting stuff. And so you
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it takes a couple of days,
you're going to notice eventually because your system

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malfunctions. If you've got one of
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are just hanging around, you can
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even from an old backup, even
if that backup is you know, in

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theory compromised. By disconnecting those machines
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remote control, you can get,
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long as the remote access trojan,
the rat be it you know, software

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or you know, built in cannot
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So, in my understanding, there
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two months ago and your month old
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work reasonably quickly. I mean,
I've heard reports of initial contact to completely

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encrypt it in forty five minutes.
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days, your old backup would still
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answer. I hope that makes sense. Yeah, and I take your point.

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The only thing that I would ask
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the encryption is quick. The vault
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for a while, but they're not
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know, we're taking some things for
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that you know where their malware is, that it's there, and so

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on and so forth. Couldn't it
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your older backup in this case scenario, and there's something planted in there that

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you don't necessarily find, and then
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but you're going to take them online
and then you have a big problem.

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Again. You've got to look at
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speaking, the ability to come back
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valuable. And with ransomware, which
is sort of the pervasive threat, your

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hard drive either works or it doesn't. The point of encrypting the hard drive

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is to render the system inoperable so
that you will pay the ransom. You

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knowing, we're mixing metaphors when we
talk about ransomware corrupting the system and vol

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typhoon sitting there and hanging around,
So you know, to me, what

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I what I see here is an
innovation in the space of backups and rapid

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recovery, and you know, is
your rapid recovery a little bit more involved

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in press the button and you're done. You know, maybe you also want

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to press the button and you know, disable internet connectivity on your firewall or

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you know disabled I you know,
maybe disconnect your firewall so that you can

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run you know, air gapped until
the forensic teams are done analyzing what just

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happened. You know, I think
it's valuable having a recovery image that works,

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as opposed to recovery images that are
completely encrypted and don't work. You

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said, press a button, the
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that was not corrupted. That that
all sounds good. What do you do

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with the corrupted hard drive? Because
you know, I imagine in most INCIDET

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response teams, they want to take
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it later to figure out who were
these people who got in? How did

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they get in? You know,
is there and eventually you know, presumably

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clean up the hard drive so that
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operations instead of booting off the backup. What so, what's what's the bigger

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picture? What do you do what
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in your back, what do you
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very good point, and we have
more and more questions in field about this

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because forensic part is very important for
their sponse team and understand why we were

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attacked and how to avoid it in
the future. So actually, when when

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we boot from our device, we
make offline the original corrupted hard drive to

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avoid the virus to go to the
clean system. Now, and more than

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this, you can just remove the
hard drive from the computer and keep it

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for forensic. Because you boot the
system from our external hard drive, you

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not really need the original hard drive, and you can just bring a new

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one, clean one and recover to
that one, keeping the corrupted for forensic,

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for investigation or any other reason.
But by the way, even if

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it's not cyber attack and the hard
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boot from our drive because we replaced
logically broken hard drive. Can we go

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a little deeper? Does that actually
work? I mean, you inside the

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unit, you've got three hard drives
you switch, you know the day that

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the time comes and you say,
okay, I'm switching back to you know,

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one of my offline drives. It's
online. Now I have to update

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that drive to make it current.
Do I Is there software on the CPU

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that says, oh, here here's
your your your image? You know?

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Update? Do you go somehow directly
to the other drive? How do you

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you know when you take your backup? How do you do that? So

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the hardware unit is part of the
solution, and it's absolutely autonomous with its

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own micro processes processor to switch between
the drives between The attacker even cannot penetrate

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and manipulate the unit to make the
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it's only one such drive that is
online. And every moment we use the

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software agent that installed on the computer
and using the computer's CPU actually access the

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original drive and copy the data in
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do use the agent software for this. And this may sounds like a problem

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for some of out companies using vendors
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It's still using the CPU the computer, but no, not nothing installed

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on the computer not impact the system
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of the computer. To do this, we placed the additional small drive inside

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our unit. The software runs from
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mentioned, nothing installed in the computer, no traces on the systems system.

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We use just the CPU power to
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drive to our external unit. And
this successful approach that solves a lot of

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problems with the customers that cannot use
any other backup systems because they just cannot

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stall the agent. When I'm backing
up my laptop, I've got a terabyte

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drive here. The laptop slows down
a little when you know, and and

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historically, you know, anti virus
was always a problem on industrial systems because

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a full scan of the hard drive
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and would analyze it all with the
anti virus and would slow things down so

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badly that the often the control system
would malfunction. How do you how do

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you throttle this? What what do
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control the impact on the control system
while you're taking a backup. So the

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anti virus issue is that it should
scan every moment and every movement in the

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in the data of the computer.
In our case, we can back up

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it when the computer is not using
full power so the backup can take ten

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minutes, it can take two hours, and it not impacts the quality of

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the backup. It not impact the
computer as well, So we adapt our

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usage of the CPU and DRUM to
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computer. And as we know in
out the computers and are not the strongest.

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So unlike antivirus that, as I
mentioned, must be a track every

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movement, we can slow down when
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our process to the out world.
You've got product in this arena. You

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know, we've we've talked about how
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management system as well, so you
can reach out and configure these things and

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you know, find out if there's
I don't know, problems with with backups

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on one machine or another. Whenever
there's a problem, you know people want

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to know about it because backups are
important. Can you talk about about what

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you've got? It's the management system
is part of our platform, and actually

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it's maybe the most useful part on
the daily basis when the hardware unit always

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connected, not touch it on a
daily basis, and the software make copy

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on the background, so the user
even cannot see the backups it's just done

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in the background. So to monitor
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we build a web portal that is
accessible from the cloud if the users have

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access to the cloud or on prem
the same system on prem to monitor the

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backups and the status. It means
all the unit. If it's one,

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two dozen or one hundreds of units
installed, you see all of them in

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one centralized system. What you can
see is the health of the backups if

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they don't correctly start, stopped,
correctly, finished correctly, if something happens

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with the hardware unit, with the
software. Also if we detected some malicious

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activity in the system, we want
to stop our backup. In the AUTI

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you cannot stop the process, you
cannot stop the machine, but we can

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stop our backups and keep the clean
environment. Once we detect an anomaly,

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and here comes the management system that
alerts the user by email, by SMS

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integration to SOCK to seem to show
the user a full status, full image

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of what's going on in the in
the in the production with the backups.

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In addition, I want to mention
here a corporation, we are not detection

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company, so we are not focusing
on detect the virus. But we do

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have cooperation with other systems or other
vendors that do have detection of anomalies of

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malverse and we have cooperation with some
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When they detect some malicious activity or
some anomaly, they can inform us

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and we can stop the backups again
to protect them from the attacker, to

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not copy the virus, not to
copies encrypted data and this way destroys the

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backups. So we do everything to
make sure you have a recovery point and

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fast ability to continue the operations.
So Andrew Alex has done a pretty thorough

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job of explaining this backup system to
us. How does it compare with the

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rest of the industry, the other
kinds of systems that you've come across in

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your time. Well, he talked
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around. The systems that I recall
seeing most frequently are network based. And

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you know that was my question backing
up. You know, I was going

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to ask a question about backing up
across the network and then discovered that,

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you know, the question made no
sense. He's not backing up across the

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network. But if you're backing up
across the OT network. You're putting load,

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you know, communications load on the
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And so in my experience, most
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they do it over the network.
If throughput is a problem, they will,

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you know, in my experience,
tend to run a parallel network,

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call it an a mid network.
This is the network they use for security

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updates, you know, after they've
been tested at nauseum. This is the

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network they use for you know,
alerts going to their security monitoring system.

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This is the network they use for
backups. And in a sense, nobody

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cares how heavily loaded that admin network
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on a different network. But you
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you want You've got I don't know, a thousand machines in a server room,

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and you want if you want them
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two or three backup servers. You're
going to go from one machine to the

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other, and it's going to take
you an hour or an hour and a

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half to back up you know,
a half terabyte of data from each of

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these machines. Even if you're going
across a fast network, which means if

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you ever need to recover and you
press a button and say restore, you're

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going to go around one machine at
a time and restore. Because if you're

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going to restore a half gigabyte of
data or so I have terabyte of data,

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it's going to take you some time. And you know, so you

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don't have the you know, press
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That's sort of the the the innovation
the benefit here. And as I said,

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you know, it's probably worse than
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data point, the public data point
from Colonial and they it was an IT

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network, they had all of the
IT infrastructure behind him. It still took

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them five and a half days to
recover. So yeah, you know,

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having the ability to do this sort
of really quickly, to me has real

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benefit when you know you have a
large investment in a physical process that you

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need to bring back online because it's
billions of dollars sitting idle there as long

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as it's down. Industrial vendors like
you know, Honeywell and Siemens and abb

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that, these vendors, you know, Schneider Electric, many of their products

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already have the option for let's call
it high availability, so that, uh,

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you know, no single point of
hardware failure will cause the system to

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becoming pair. They have, you
know, systems that are clustered, They

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have multiple hard drives, they have
rated hard drives. These are all sort

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of standard options. It sounds to
me like what you've got here is something

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that's a logical standard option on lots
of different control systems. You know,

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you've got the the Instead of saying
I've got a rated hard drive so that

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if the hard drive fails, the
system just keeps going, what you've got

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here is multiple hard drives, not
configured in a RAID, but configured in

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a backup configuration so that if a
hard drive fails you can recover, so

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that if you're compromised, you can
recover. This sounds like, in a

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sense, a standard thing that most
control system vendors, you know, looking

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at at cybersecurity are are I'm guessing
they're going to be interested. Are you

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talking to these people? You know? Can you can you talk about about,

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you know, sort of how this
fits into the big picture of control

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systems. Absolutely, we are in
contact with all of them or most of

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them to integrate our solution as a
standard est you mentioned the rate systems and

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multiple discs. This is what called
the the R disaster recovery and more recovery

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from functionality and the physical damage.
That is great and we compliment this with

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the cyber resilience solutions. So our
goal is to come to the customer together

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with this vendor and provide full solutions
with the HTMI or SCADA machine having the

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recovery unit built in. We even
started to make pocs with some of these

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vendors to integrate the cover unit inside
the computer to provide the users the computer

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with the cyber recovery capabilities inside.
This is more strategic and long processes that

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we established, but this is part
of our strategy to capture the field of

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cyber resilience and provide this solution to
the out is something that not yet exists

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in in the out world. We've
talked about computers, We've talked about HMI.

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You know, the dominant operating system, the dominant HMI platform in the

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industry is Windows. So you know, I'm assuming that we've been talking about

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Windows here. Do you have you
know, are you looking at a sort

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of the bigger picture? Do you
have stuff for I don't know, Linux,

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you know, Linux is not so
popular today in in ot maybe it

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will be in the future, so
we do have it in our roadmap,

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but not not in our focus.
Currently. We support most of the Windows

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environments, even started to support the
Windows XP. Unfortunately it's very popular and

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no protection for this, so we
decided to support Windows XP. We support

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the Windows seven and ten and eleven
and Windows servers. But recently we discovered

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that the more and more outhy organizations
shifts to EXCI and this kind of gap

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today. The reason is working on
more virtual systems in the manufacturing floor.

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We see more and more systems like
this in field, so we included it

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in our road map to help our
customers. It's not an easy task to

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boot the XI and run it immediately, so we're working on this and actually

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see first results. I would expect
it to have some solution for this in

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a couple of months as we see
growing need for this environment. Cool.

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Well, you know, thank you
Alex for joining us. This is be

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in trementious. I've learned something you
know before we let you go, can

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you sum up for us what you
know? What should we be thinking about

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to be to be looking at the
problem of recovery the right way. First

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of all, thank you for having
me to summarize. I would like to

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recommend using air gap technology to protect
the data, Involve the old people into

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the cyber let them understand the risk
and be part of the cyber resilience team

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the cyber resilience process, and educate
them. Win Salvador have a a vast

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experience with the cyber attack recovery and
I will be happy to answer any questions

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or any requirement. You can reach
me by LinkedIn, by our web site,

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or by email. We're a very
responsive team and we'll be happy to

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consult on any resilience question. Andrew
looks like that does it for your interview?

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Do you have any final thoughts that
you might want to take us out

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with today. Yeah, I mean, you know, reflecting on the episode,

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it occurs to me that this is
sort of yet another example of sort

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of the the difference between security requirements
and call it sort of traditional reliability requirements.

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I mean, one of the goals
of cybersecurity is to you know,

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assure you know, reliable operation,
keep critical infrastructures and you know, large

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investments producing and you know Alex mentioned
earlier Raid drives. You know, raids

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are examples of sort of continuous online
redundancy. If any one of the drives,

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there's smoke rises out of any one
of the drives in the raid,

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the raid just keeps going. I
mean, the user doesn't even notice.

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They get an alert saying, hey, you should fix this. One of

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your drives failed, but it just
keeps going. Security is different with sort

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of traditional reliability. You assume sort
of random equipment failures. You assume random

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failures with security. If you corrupt
the raid, you've corrupted the entire raid.

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There is nothing left and so you
know, this is sort of another

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example of where security requirements are different
from traditional reliability requirements. You have to

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take into account that, you know, the failures induced by a cyber attack

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are going to be sort of simultaneous
across a large swath of infrastructure, and

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you need a different system to recover
from those. And here's a system I've

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never heard of. You know,
here's a system or a lot of the

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time, you know, you can
reboot and you're often running again, which

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is tremendous. So, you know, good job to these folks, And

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I hope this becomes a standard feature
in a lot of the infrastructure that we

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rely on going forward. Well,
thank you to alex Yev Tushenko for elucidating

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all this for us. And Andrew
is always thank you for speaking with me.

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It's always a pleasure. Thank you, Nane. This has been the

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Industrial Security Podcast from Waterfall. Thanks
to everyone out there listening.
