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What is CORE5 cyber resilience?

Immutability is just the beginning

Ransomware doesn’t stop at encryption. Neither does ARTESCA. Scality’s CORE5 cyber-resilience framework adds end-to-end protection to stop deletion, exfiltration, and insider threats.

The result? Your backups become unbreakable.

What immutability covers

Encryption protection

Retention integrity

Regulatory compliance

Protects against deletion of backup

What immutability misses

Data exfiltration

Insider threats & admin bypass

Why immutability is not enough

API-level immutability with S3 Object Lock is where most vendors stop. Immutability protects backups from encryption, but today’s ransomware goes much further.

So does Scality, delivering 5 layers of defense that start with architectural immutability and extend across the entire data path for end-to-end cyber resilience.

End-to-end cyber resilience: How do storage systems stack up?

Not all “immutable” storage is created equal. Here’s how ARTESCA with CORE5 compares to traditional backup targets:

Scality ARTESCA is the only backup storage solution that enables end-to-end cyber resilience with unbreakable data protection at every level of the system, from API to architecture.

ARTESCA is Zero Trust by design

With ARTESCA, no user, app or system is trusted by default. Zero Trust principles run through the entire platform, ensuring that even if attackers get inside, they can not move freely or escalate privileges.

Highlights:

  • Credential isolation between backup and storage systems
  • Least-privilege access by default
  • Hardened OS with no root access
  • MFA-enabled admin UI

Scality’s commitment to security extends beyond product design.

Our organization operates under an ISO 27001–certified information security management system, ensuring that the same Zero Trust principles guiding ARTESCA are applied across development, operations, and support.

CORE5 explained: What is end-to-end cyber resilience?

ARTESCA is built on CORE5, Scality’s five-layer framework for end-to-end data protection.

It delivers security at every level of the system, going far beyond basic immutability.

API-level

S3 Object Lock ensures backups are immutable from the moment they’re written.

Data-level

Zero-trust controls with credential isolation, MFA, encryption-at-rest, and secure TLS connections.

Storage-level

Distributed erasure coding renders disk data indecipherable, even if accessed directly.

Geographic-level

Multi-site replication and offsite copies ensure recoverability even after a site-wide event.

Architecture-level

Immutability is built into ARTESCA’s hardened OS and object storage design — no root access, no bolt-ons.

Take a dive into CORE5

Explore how rising ransomware threats are reshaping storage requirements and why IT leaders need to think beyond encryption-only protection.

Learn the principles behind the new standard for end-to-end cyber resilience and what CORE5 means for the future of ransomware-resilient storage.

Trusted to safeguard what matters 

From small IT teams to managed service providers, ARTESCA is proven to keep backups unbreakable.

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“If my boss asks if our data is secure, I can say ‘yes’ with complete confidence. And that’s a really good feeling.”

Andreas Preissinger

IT Security Architect, ALPMA

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