Systems and methods for breach-proof, resilient, compliant data in a multi-vendor cloud environment and automatically self heals in the event of a ransomware attack

A computer implemented method for securely storing data formed into cloud technology-specific data objects (hereinafter, “buckets”), comprising:

• causing a processor to complete steps including:
• obtaining original data buckets from a client cloud storage gateway device;
• splitting the original data buckets into at least three data blocks each;
• encrypting the data blocks using an encryption key associated with the data blocks;
• writing the encrypted data blocks across at least three cloud storage providers, each cloud storage provider located in a different physical location, each data block written to at least two but less than all of the cloud storage providers, whereby there is no single cloud storage provider to which all of the data blocks are written;
• such that if any one cloud storage provider is unavailable, the encrypted data blocks stored thereon may be retrieved from at least one other cloud storage provider;
• and in the case any one of the cloud storage providers is compromised, the original data cannot be recovered from the encrypted data blocks stored in that cloud storage provider alone;
• creating a pointer file containing locations of the encrypted data blocks in every cloud storage provider to which each of the encrypted data blocks was written;
• storing the pointer file in the client cloud storage gateway device;
• deleting the original data from the client cloud storage gateway device;
• analyze communications of a specific backup software during the ordinary course of backup and restore operations, including:
• identify at least one read operations pattern that the backup software generates during backups;
• create a white list that represents the identified read patterns using regex expressions;
• and
• deploy the white list at the backend platform to support multi-factor authentication (MFA) for read operations from the cloud storage used by the backup software as a Restore Control capability.