The practice of air gapping – that is, storing tertiary backup copies in a storage environment that is isolated from the production and primary backup environments – has long been implemented by IT Operations as a best practice within their backup and broader data protection strategies. These isolated backup environments have become even more necessary with the rise of ransomware attacks, and attacks from malicious insiders such as rogue administrators. In the event that a malicious actor accesses the production or primary backup environment, they cannot access the air gapped copies. As a result, the air-gapped storage provides a clean copy of data that can be recovered from.