FEATURE: DISASTER RECOVERY //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Penalties for non-compliance could cost
organisations upwards of €20 million or
4% of yearly worldwide revenue, whichever
is higher. Organisations therefore need to
ensure that they have the right security
measures in place to help ensure that
personal data doesn’t get into the wrong
hands. They should also be able to archive
their data in a fully encrypted, immutable
and redundant system, as this decreases the Organisations should first look to deploy
advanced security services to defend
against targeted email security threats.
However, in the event of a successful
attack, an organisation needs to ensure
that they can continue to send and receive
email. Employees have zero tolerance for
downtime. When an outage does happen,
consistent communication and fast service
restoration are an absolute must.
HOW WE STORE AND PROTECT THIS
DATA SHOULD BE A TOP PRIORITY
FOR ANY ORGANISATION.
risk of data loss and allows recovery of data,
should disaster strike.
What are the main ways a
company can find itself losing
its data?
There is a growing risk of accidental
deletion, data corruption, cybercriminal
attacks and malicious users or
administrators. Email is one of the most
prevalent sources of data loss and leaks.
It represents one of the most vulnerable
parts of security efforts to keep data and
proprietary information protected.
Data loss can be the result of something
as simple as having an email accidentally
addressed to the wrong person or having
messages sent surreptitiously with sensitive
attachments. Data can also be exposed to
external threats, when the right security is
not in place. Malicious actors are increasingly
using targeted threats to steal data or hold
it ransom.
What is the best way to plan for
Disaster Recovery?
Email disaster recovery is a critical part of IT
security. When email goes down, business
will quickly grind to a halt. Email downtime
means reduced productivity, lost customers
and lower revenue. When an outage occurs,
the organisation needs a way to restore
email as quickly as possible.
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Furthermore, it’s important to have a secure
cloud archive solution. Why in the cloud you
may ask? A cloud archive provides a scalable,
secure back-up of all email in the cloud to
protect against data loss, corruption and
malicious activity. But more importantly,
it offers more than simple back-up and
recovery, it enables access to archived emails
anywhere, anytime and on any device in
record speed.
Uninterrupted access to email and archives
during server downtime is a win–win for
everyone: lines of communication stay open,
productivity remains high and disruption
after a cyberattack remains low.
What would you identify as
the different elements that
form an effective disaster
management strategy?
Back-up is an important part of a recovery
strategy for any CIO. However, unlike the
strategies of old where back-up fulfilled the
purpose of ‘just in case’, the CIOs of today
need to consider back-up and recovery as
part of their wider cyber-resilience strategy.
This means understanding the threats
and deploying solutions that protect their
organisation, allowing users to continue
during a failure or breach and ensuring they
are able to recover quickly. The best way to
manage disaster is with an effective cyber-
resilience strategy. When it comes to cyber
resilience for email, all organisations should
consider the following:
• Advanced security: Defend against
email-borne impersonation attempts;
malicious URLs and unknown malware
attachments; threats that are internal
to the organisation; as well as spam and
viruses. Additionally, the proliferation
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