| Industry | Car dealerships |
| Location | Multi-site retailer |
| Company | Robert Kunzmann GmbH & Co. KG |
| Customer since | XX.XX.XXXX |
| Services | infra:u |
With 10 branches and more than 1,000 employees, Robert Kunzmann GmbH & Co. KG is one of the established players in automotive retail. For a corporate group of this size, a functioning IT setup is far more than just a tool. It forms the central nervous system for all sales structures and service processes. If this system fails, operations come to a complete standstill.
This is exactly where one of the greatest business risks of our time lies. Targeted ransomware attacks aim to encrypt entire IT landscapes. If such an attack succeeds, the economic consequences for companies are enormous. Sales stop, workshops can no longer process orders, and internal communication collapses. Today, companies need far more than plain data backups. They need a reliable strategy for restarting business processes.
"The threat landscape for IT infrastructure has intensified massively. A successful ransomware attack would not only have meant a complete operational shutdown for our group, but would also have cost us significant customer trust and caused financial damage that would be difficult to quantify."
explains Joachim Roßmeisl, IT Security Manager of the car dealership group
To avert this existential threat, UPONU GmbH established a dedicated solution for Robert Kunzmann GmbH & Co. KG based on the sovereign cloud stack "infra:u". The core of this concept is strict technological and physical separation. All critical corporate data is continuously replicated to a completely separate infrastructure. This self-sufficient emergency environment is operated in UPONU's ISO 27001-certified data centers in Germany. Should the car dealership group's primary IT services be compromised, the data held at UPONU remains completely unaffected. UPONU relies on an open-source cloud stack architecture, in line with the requirements of the "Sovereign Cloud Stack" (SCS), which is also used by authorities and institutions in the form of the "Deutschland-Stack".
In the event of a crisis, an individually defined recovery strategy takes effect. The isolated recovery environment can be quickly activated within a defined time window. The critical emergency systems then seamlessly take over operations. The emergency systems restore employees' ability to work, reducing downtime to an absolute minimum.
"With UPONU's isolated recovery environment, we have gained not just a technical safety net, but real business continuity. The regular tests give us the confidence that our contingency plan will work reliably in an emergency," adds Joachim Roßmeisl.
A contingency plan only proves its worth in practice. For this reason, the functionality of the emergency systems is verified through regular tests. These tests are documented in detail. Robert Kunzmann GmbH & Co. KG thereby meets the highest compliance requirements and sustainably safeguards its own operational capability.
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