OCI Block Storage Adds Ransomware-Resilient Backup Protection
- Services: Block Volume
- Release Date: August 11, 2026
OCI Block Storage now supports immutable backups, helping protect backups from premature deletion and retention-period changes for the duration of the retention policy. These capabilities can help organizations strengthen ransomware resilience and support compliance efforts.
Cyber attacks are a critical business risk that can disrupt operations, compromise sensitive data, erode customer trust, and create legal or financial consequences. Protecting recovery data is just as important as protecting production workloads, especially during security incidents, accidental deletion, regulatory inquiries, and other situations where backups must remain securely preserved.
OCI Block Storage now offers flexible backup protection options that support operational recovery, governance, and regulatory compliance. Whether you need long-term retention, protection against accidental deletion, immutable backups, or indefinite preservation for legal matters, you can choose the protection level that best fits your requirements.
- Endurance: Long-term backup retention from one day to 200 years.
- Governance: Delete prevention with administrative flexibility.
- Compliance: Retention Lock with enforceable backup immutability.
- Legal Hold: Indefinite retention of backups for investigations and litigation.
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