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Imagine arriving at work one morning and turning on your computer.

Contracts, quotations, project proposals, design drawings, engineering documents, and technical files that were perfectly accessible yesterday have suddenly become unreadable.

A ransom note appears on your screen:

“To recover your files, pay in Bitcoin.”

This scenario is no longer hypothetical.

Today, ransomware attacks are increasingly shifting their focus from data centers and servers to employee endpoints, where security protections are often weaker.

Person at a desk panicking as a computer monitor shows 'Ransomware Alert' and 'Your files have been encrypted'.

The Overlooked Risk: Endpoint Data

For many years, enterprise IT strategies focused primarily on protecting servers, databases, and business-critical applications.

However, with the rise of digital workplaces, an increasing amount of valuable business data is now created and stored directly on employee devices.

Financial reports, customer records, contracts, engineering drawings, technical documentation, and project files may not reside in a core database, but they are essential to daily business operations.

In many ways, employee computers have become a critical part of an organization’s data assets.

Yet compared with servers, endpoints often lack centralized protection and management.

As endpoints become major data production centers, traditional data protection strategies are no longer sufficient.

Why Backup Alone Cannot Stop Ransomware

Many organizations already have backup systems in place.

The real problem is the protection gap between backups.

For example:

  • Employees back up files once a week
  • Data is synchronized nightly
  • Files are periodically copied to shared folders
  • Documents are manually uploaded to enterprise cloud storage

On the surface, it appears that everything is protected.

But if ransomware strikes at 3:00 PM and the latest backup was created the previous night, every file created or modified during that period may be permanently lost.

The situation can become even worse.

Many organizations rely on shared folders or network-attached storage as backup repositories. Unfortunately, ransomware can often discover and encrypt these locations as well.

The result:

  • The workstation is encrypted
  • Shared files are encrypted
  • Backup copies are encrypted

The organization is left with limited recovery options.

This is why the real question is not whether backups exist, but whether the organization has continuous protection and rapid recovery capabilities.

From Scheduled Backup to Continuous Protection

Unlike traditional backup solutions, i2Share adopts a continuous data protection approach.

After the client is installed, designated work folders are automatically synchronized with the cloud document repository.

Whether users:

  • Create new files
  • Modify existing content
  • Delete documents
  • Update versions

Every change is automatically captured and synchronized in real time.

No additional actions are required from employees.

Users simply work as usual while data protection operates automatically in the background.

The greatest value of this model is that protection no longer depends on user behavior—it depends on system capability.

Recovery Requires More Than the Latest Backup

One of the most common ransomware scenarios is that files still exist, but their contents have been encrypted.

In such cases, having only the latest backup may not be enough.

Why?

Because the most recent backup may already contain the encrypted files.

Effective recovery requires the ability to return to a point in time before the attack occurred.

i2Share continuously tracks file changes and preserves complete version histories.

This means that:

  • Files can be restored to any historical version
  • Recovery points are available across the entire file lifecycle
  • Users can quickly locate clean versions before encryption occurred

Even when recovering hundreds of thousands of files, restoration can be performed efficiently without manually downloading individual documents.

For organizations, ransomware may encrypt the current version of a file, but historical versions remain safely preserved.

Preventing Reinfection After Recovery

Many organizations overlook an important fact:

Restoring data is only the first step.

If malicious files continue to circulate within the organization, infections can quickly reoccur.

Data protection must therefore address both recovery and prevention.

i2Share includes cloud-based virus scanning and malware detection capabilities.

Before files are synchronized and shared, they can be automatically inspected for security threats.

Suspicious files can be identified and isolated before they spread through:

  • Shared folders
  • Collaboration spaces
  • Team document repositories

This extends protection beyond post-incident recovery and into proactive threat prevention.

Data Protection and Collaboration Should Not Be Separate Systems

Traditionally, enterprises often deploy:

  • A backup system
  • A file-sharing platform
  • A collaboration platform

The result is frequently fragmented data management, operational complexity, and poor user experience.

i2Share takes a different approach.

Its design philosophy is to make data protection an inherent part of the document collaboration process.

Within a single platform, users can:

  • Preview files online
  • Collaborate on documents
  • Share content securely
  • Synchronize files across locations
  • Access files from mobile devices
  • Manage historical versions
  • Recover lost or damaged data

Combined with granular permission controls and encrypted data transmission, employees can focus on their work while the platform handles protection automatically.

Data security becomes part of everyday business operations rather than an additional task.

Infographic showing i2Share Platform with eight features around a central cloud and a person at a laptop: Data Backup, Online Editing, Collaborative Work, Permission Management, Mobile Access, Cross-Region Sync, Version History, Secure/Efficient/Convenient.

Endpoint Data Protection Is Fundamentally About Data Resilience

Today’s enterprise data is distributed across employee devices, collaborative workflows, and business processes.

As ransomware attacks continue to evolve, organizations need a platform that covers the entire data lifecycle—from creation and sharing to protection, recovery, and utilization.

Through continuous protection, comprehensive version history, rapid recovery, and integrated collaboration capabilities, i2Share helps organizations build a modern, resilient digital workplace prepared for the challenges of the future.

About Info2soft
Info2soft, short for Information2 Software, is the leader in data security field. Its solutions are widely adopted for data protection, disaster recovery, database replication, and so on, earning strong recognition from users worldwide. And Info2soft has been ranked the No.1 vendor in China’s Data Replication and Protection Software Market by IDC for many years.

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