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In manufacturing, eliminating downtime is critical because every minute of halted production leads to lost revenue, delayed orders, and damaged customer trust. Without a plan for backup and instant recovery, a cyberattack can leave operations offline for days or weeks. Production schedules collapse, supply chains are disrupted, compliance risks rise, and costs can reach millions per day. Without rapid recovery, what begins as a security incident quickly becomes a full-scale business and operational crisis.
Salvador Tech’s platform ensures operational continuity across OT stations and engineering endpoints, supporting critical functions such as resource planning, production monitoring, configuration management, and safety systems. By reducing downtime from hours or days to under a minute, it significantly limits the impact of cyberattacks.
Energy companies face some of the gravest risks when cyberattacks cause prolonged downtime. Unlike other industries, interruptions in electricity, fuel, or gas supply immediately impact millions of people, disrupt national economies, and even threaten public safety. The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in 2021 forced a six-day shutdown of the largest fuel pipeline in the United States, halting 45% of East Coast fuel deliveries and causing widespread shortages. In 2022, European wind energy providers suffered cyber incidents that disabled remote monitoring and control systems, limiting operators’ ability to manage thousands of turbines. Similar attacks against utilities in Asia and North America have highlighted how vulnerable grid and generation systems are to disruption.
These examples demonstrate that even the strongest defenses cannot guarantee prevention. What determines resilience is the ability to restore operations quickly and safely. Verified backups and tested recovery protocols and solutions ensure energy firms can return systems to a known, clean state within minutes, rather than suffering days or weeks of costly disruption. In today’s escalating threat landscape, where regulatory bodies such as NERC CIP and NIS2 emphasize recovery readiness, backup integrity and instant recovery are no longer optional, they are essential for ensuring operational continuity and protecting both economic stability and public trust.
Salvador Tech’s backup and instant recovery platform ensures that both critical and non-critical assets can be restored immediately, while establishing a clear protocol for rapid recovery to guarantee the safe and reliable restoration of operational systems.
Cyber incidents can compromise configuration files, process parameters, or audit trails. Regulators require proof that restored systems remain trustworthy.
Salvador Tech’s rapid backup and recovery platform enables immediate return to the last validated version, reducing revalidation time from hours or days to minutes.
Salvador Tech's Backup & Recovery Platform is designed to support large organizations with multiple sites or endpoints distributed nationally or globally. In the OT landscape, managing security tools requires two requirements:
(A) Centralized management from HQ to allow a high-level view of all sites, assess overall resilience, and allow deeper investigation into specific assets when needed.
(B) Site by site management that empowers site managers to assess every asset, group them by risk and criticality, and ensure their site is fully prepared for a potential cyberattack.
Whether it's a distributed organization with centralized management or each site managed by a different team, the Salvador Tech Backup and Recovery Platform enables efficient monitoring, management, control, and reporting across all sites and assets.
To ensure operational continuity amid today’s growing cyber threat landscape, ports must complement defense with robust backup and recovery. This requires verified, tamper-proof backups, regular testing across IT and OT, and alignment with regulatory frameworks. With rapid restoration of critical systems, from terminal operations to logistics platforms, ports can minimize disruption, protect trade flows, and maintain continuity even when attacks occur.
Salvador Tech’s advanced backup and recovery platform safeguards the entire critical port infrastructure, across all endpoints, ensuring operational continuity even under repeated cyberattacks targeting both IT and OT networks.
Without proper revalidation, even restored equipment cannot legally resume production, leading to prolonged downtime, significant costs (downtime in pharma can exceed $10,000–20,000 per minute), and delays in delivering critical medicines.
Salvador Tech’s platform triggers policy-driven recovery workflows with verified clean system states (OS, data, drivers, configurations), ensuring continuity while reducing both impact and cost.
Yes. The Salvador Tech Management Console provides a convenient way to monitor, manage, and control each of your sites through a single viewpoint. It displays key insights for the entire site, such as Resilience Score, Risk, and Critical Alerts, based on analytics across all assets. At the same time, the Console allows deep visibility into individual assets, showing protection levels and other critical details.
As energy systems become increasingly digital and interconnected, the risk of cyber intrusions is rising sharply. Ransomware groups are targeting OT environments to disrupt energy supply, while state-backed attackers probe utility networks to prepare for large-scale outages or exert political pressure. In this environment, energy companies must prioritize resilience, ensuring operational continuity and rapid recovery to safeguard critical services and public trust.
Salvador Tech’s platform uses its Management Console as a centralized hub, providing real-time oversight of all OT sites and endpoints. The console supports proactive cyber risk management while maintaining backup and recovery readiness, ensuring organizations can operate with resilience and confidence.
As manufacturing becomes more connected, cyber intrusions are rising. Ransomware groups exploit OT to halt production, while state-backed attackers target industrial networks for disruption. In this environment, manufacturers must prioritize resilience to protect critical operations.
Salvador Tech’s platform leverages its Management Console as a central control hub, delivering real-time visibility across all OT sites and endpoints. It enables proactive cyber risk management and ensures backup and recovery readiness, strengthening organizational resilience.
Ports operate a diverse mix of infrastructure, from STS and RTG cranes to automated gates — alongside legacy control systems, LPR systems, and varied operating environments, creating a complex landscape that must be secured and supported for reliable backup and recovery.
Salvador Tech’s platform supports complex infrastructures with flexible recovery options, delivering frequent automated backups to meet strict RPO/RTO targets and ensure rapid, validated and secure restoration.
Ports rely on complex IT, OT, and legacy systems where even brief downtime can halt trade and cause major losses. Recovery often depends on scarce IT expertise, leaving ports vulnerable to prolonged outages, underscoring the need for a simplified backup and recovery solution operable by all roles.
Salvador Tech’s platform is designed for all roles and does not depend on specialized IT expertise. Built with usability in mind, it enables staff across functions to initiate immediate and secure recovery during the most urgent situations, such as cyber incidents or attacks.
Yes. When the Salvador Tech Management Console detects a cyberattack, the platform immediately takes action to eliminate the risk of backup contamination. This includes halting backup processes and applying additional measures to prevent the attack from reaching stored backups, thus ensuring backup integrity.
The Console also displays the current status of the attack, helping managers initiate the appropriate instant recovery process. While the Salvador Tech Platform is built for swift recovery and maintaining business and operational continuity, it is not designed to stop cyberattacks or replace prevention and detection tools like Firewall and EDR. These tools should be deployed alongside the Console or immediately after deploying the Salvador Tech Platform; some of them can be integrated with the Salvador Tech Platform to enhance overall resilience.
Pharma manufacturing relies on a wide variety of engineering stations, from PLC workstations and MES terminals to QC and calibration laptops. A single compromised station can disrupt validated processes, corrupt batch data, or trigger costly revalidation. Securing every station, regardless of complexity or diversity, is essential to protect operations, compliance, and patient safety.
Salvador Tech’s platform addresses this challenge directly, safeguarding engineering workstations and manufacturing equipment across global sites.
For manufacturers, maintaining backup integrity after a cyberattack is critical not only for restoring operations but also for forensic investigations. Attacks on OT environments can alter configuration files, production data, or audit trails, making it difficult to identify the scope of compromise. Verified, tamper-proof backups provide a trusted baseline, ensuring faster, more reliable recovery while also meeting regulatory requirements.
Salvador Tech’s patent-based CRU ensures that backups are created and stored in a clean, isolated environment, preventing malware or tampering from contaminating recovery files during a cyberattack. This design preserves backup integrity and guarantees that systems can be restored quickly and reliably.
For energy companies, backup integrity and rapid cyber recovery are not just operational priorities but regulatory requirements. Frameworks such as NERC CIP in North America and NIS2 in Europe demand that utilities prove their ability to restore critical systems quickly and from trusted, tamper-proof backups. Without verified backups, recovery efforts risk reintroducing compromised data, breaching compliance obligations, and extending downtime. By ensuring both integrity and speed in recovery, energy firms can maintain operational continuity, meet regulatory expectations, and safeguard their essential services.
Salvador Tech’s patent-based technology ensures that backups are created and stored in a clean, isolated environment, preventing malware or tampering from contaminating recovery files during a cyberattack. This design preserves backup integrity, guarantees rapid and reliable system restoration, and strengthens overall organizational resilience against disruptions.
Our advanced backup software creates a full duplicate of the system, including the OS (Operating System), data files, drivers, and unique user configuration. Thanks to our secure air-gap protection, attackers cannot reach, encrypt, or delete the data. This allows users to immediately reboot and operate from Salvador's disk, with no need for IT expertise. Just one click of a button is all it takes.
Yes. DR (Disaster Recovery) is designed specifically for data loss in cases such as fire, water, physical theft. These are usually online solutions that are vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Salvador's solution is based on air-gapped protection storage to allow recovery from ransomware, wiper malware, and other types of cyberattacks.
Air-gap protection is a security measure for computer networks that physically isolates their private information from the public Internet. A key advantage of this technology over other cloud solutions is that the data is offline, vastly decreasing the risk of malware and ransomware attacks. Air-gap technology is highly relevant to OT because the system protects critical information from potential attacks, dramatically reducing the risks of data loss and operational downtime.
There are many disaster situations we can help you with! We specialize in ransomware attacks, WIPER attacks (disk erasure), physical disk damage, software glitches, and more. Our simple-to-use web monitoring system, allows you to see the status of all workstations in one management panel, on the cloud or on-premise.

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