Bank of Jinhua Bolsters Financial Security Against Ransomware with Huawei Data Storage
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts and steals core data, causing huge disruptions to the company. As the warehouse of important data, data storage plays a pivotal role in safeguarding enterprise data, but if compromised, storage systems can directly impact service continuity. In the fight against ransomware, data storage serves as the final fortress, securing clean data copies and ensuring always-on services.
Bank of Jinhua and Huawei Data Storage collaboratively developed a multilayer network + storage ransomware protection solution. This solution boasts three key features: accurate and intelligent threat detection, rapid threat response, and stable data recovery.
The solution runs on the following key technologies:
AI-powered detection: Advanced AI engines and algorithms can detect ransomware with greater accuracy, offering 90% threat identification, which is 10% higher than the industry's mainstream detection rate (80%).
Multilayer collaboration: The innovative multilayered design is built to defend against ransomware. Thanks to the network-security collaboration, the security management module collects threat information in real time and contains the spread across the network quickly, preventing ransomware from infiltrating the production environment. Unlike conventional defense methods like manual forensics, analysis, source tracing, and policy configuration—which can take days—the Huawei solution runs proactive analysis, to deliver protective measures within minutes.
Security situation awareness: This technology synchronizes alerts to the storage manager in real time, enabling swift response through actions such as snapshot-based recovery, data isolation, and malicious file blocklists. This provides data recovery over five times faster than industry alternatives.
The Bank of Jinhua project, in which the existing storage network was overhauled with the Huawei ransomware protection solution, marks China's first city commercial bank to deploy full-stack storage ransomware protection for banking services.
The solution uses 100% domestically developed components. Now, the bank's IT infrastructure operates with 24/7 continuity, meeting the regulatory requirements of RPO ≈ 0 and RTO ＜ 30 minutes. This transformation also led to a mature, innovative financial system, paving the way for future technical architectures in mission-critical banking services. Further, this project sets a benchmark for domestic technologies used in finance markets, such as in city commercial banks.
With every iteration of network breakthroughs, there is an ever-present threat of malicious actors. Moving forward, both organizations continue to collaborate in ransomware protection, data storage, and data protection, with the goal of completing more benchmark projects using independent, innovative financial technologies.