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Veeam finds cyber-attack outages require modernised backup strategies
Veeam Software released insights from the company ’ s fifth annual Veeam Data Protection Trends Report . While companies say they will spend more trying to fend off cyber-attacks , the survey found IT leaders are feeling even less protected and more concerned about their ability to recover and restore mission-critical data .
Respondents shared that cyber-attacks remain the top cause of outages and that while organisations are putting more emphasis on using the cloud for major recoveries , only a small percentage believe they will be able to recover from even a small crisis in under a week .
For the fourth straight year , cyber-attacks were listed as the most common and most impactful causes of business outages across organisations . The fact that other types of outages followed closely behind – infrastructure , networking , storage hardware , application software , public cloud resources , and server hardware – illustrated the growing need for modernised backup strategies .
The survey ranked protecting against cyber threats and addressing environmental , social , and governmental goals as the biggest inhibitors to IT modernisation and digital transformation initiatives . These factors scored higher than usual struggles related to skills , economic concerns and organisational issues , due to the amount of effort and resources that were being diverted from digital transformation or IT modernisation investments .
While most organisations consider cyber resiliency a foundational aspect of their broader business continuity or disaster recovery , BC , DR strategy , BC , DR preparedness is not yet passing most SLA expectations . When asked how long IT would need to recover 50 servers , only 32 % believed their IT staffs could recover the servers within five business days .
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