FINAL WORD
Are you ready for a reality check on data resilience?
The sheer amount of data generated by applications has resulted in sprawling data profiles that fall far outside existing data resilience measures. Pair this with an underdeveloped understanding of modern data resilience, and you have a recipe for disaster, says Dave Russell at Veeam, and a case of you do not know what you do not know.
For years, many organisations have been guilty of putting data resilience on the back burner. Over time, however, the rising tide of threat levels, regulations, and best practices has lifted all boats. Resilience is now firmly on the radar.
Awareness is only half the battle; preparedness is another matter. Now that industry benchmarks have improved so that organisations have a better idea of what to look for, they are waking up to an uncomfortable fact – they are not as prepared as they ought to be.
The Veeam report on data resilience among larger enterprises in collaboration with McKinsey found that key aspects of cyber resilience – even old-hat fundamentals like people and processes – were regularly self-reported as significantly lacking.
How did we get here? And how can organisations shore up these shortcomings?
For C-suite decision-makers, resilience perhaps is not the most exciting or businesscritical concern. Historically, it was often lumped in with general cybersecurity and assumed that it was already in place. Unfortunately, like most contingencies, the true value of data resilience cannot be appreciated until things go wrong.
Aside from the CISO, chief executives would often treat backup and recovery processes like you would an airbag. Forget it is in place at all, until you are involved in
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