Ensuring data protection is an uphill battle as attacker tools and strategies grow more sophisticated over time, and turning to immutable ransomware protection is critical as it offers organizations secure storage that will ensure data protection and quick recovery following an attack.
Data backup and recoverability are more than just a budget line item – they are the last line of defense for businesses and will be the most valuable asset they have when suffering from a ransomware attack.
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has seen cyber warfare enter the mainstream and the risk of spill-over into unrelated businesses remains a possibility. Businesses should review their existing backup and recovery strategies and cyber incident response plans or they risk getting caught in the cyber crossfire.
Investing in an automated security and backup solution gives your IT team and larger organization peace of mind that data is being regularly secured and accounted for. It also nearly eliminates the room for human error, which in cybersecurity, can be a huge factor in data loss.
SaaS vendors are responsible for ensuring the security of their cloud environments, but each customer is responsible for securing their data in those clouds. The best way to secure assets such as business-critical data on the cloud is an account-level backup and recovery tool.
SaaS solutions are widely used and are mission-critical for their users. As such, they should be treated with the utmost importance, just like their mission-critical non-SaaS business applications. Solutions are now available for vendor-agnostic SaaS backup.
The increasing spread of wiper malware is a stark reminder of the dangerous landscape organisations face when protecting their data. A solid, well-managed data backup and recovery plan is the key to ensuring data safety in the face of today’s growing array of threats.