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5 Ways Your DR and Backup Solutions May Be Weakening Your Cyber Resilience

Zerto

Are your disaster recovery and backup solutions up to the task of cyber resilience ? Not Following the 3-2-1-1 Data Protection Rule The 3-2-1 rule is a data backup strategy that has become the industry standard for data protection and disaster readiness, and that keeps on evolving. Consider these five ways they may be deficient.

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The CISOs Guide to Storage & Backup Cyber Resiliency

Solutions Review

Data about the security posture of their storage and backup systems is either woefully deficient or missing entirely. That state of affairs is likely to remain until the inherent risk posed by vulnerable storage and backup systems is addressed. That means they are wide open to attack from ransomware and other forms of malware.

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Best practices for verifying and validating your backups

Acronis

Many IT teams and companies think they’re successfully backing up their data and applications, only to have unpleasant surprises in the case of a malware attack, outage or other event. To overcome these challenges, you need to make sure you’re verifying that your backups are working exactly how you think they should.

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Backup, DR & CR: Supporting the Need for Speedy Data Recovery

Solutions Review

In this feature, Zerto (HPE) ‘s Director of Technical Marketing Kevin Cole offers commentary on backup, disaster recovery, and cyber recovery and supporting the need for speed. Longer downtimes result in increased loss and recovering quickly should be top of mind. How do backup, disaster recovery, and cyber recovery differ?

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Four Attack Vectors for Web Applications Being Targeted by Ransomware

Solutions Review

The shift to remote work has pushed even more applications out of the data center and onto the internet. The Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report shows that for hacking, web applications are the biggest attack vector in use, accounting for more than 80% of all data breaches. Application access. Application access.

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Four Key Backup and Recovery Questions IT Must Ask During Deployment

Solutions Review

In this submission, Skytap Technical Product Evangelist Matthew Romero offers four key backup and recovery questions that IT teams must ask during deployment. There are a number of ways a robust DR/backup system can mitigate the harm of a ransomware attack. Setting up backups for a core business application is a complicated task.

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45 World Backup Day Quotes from 32 Experts for 2023

Solutions Review

Solutions Review’s Tim King compiled this roundup of 45 World Backup Day quotes from 32 experts for 2023, part of our ongoing coverage of the enterprise storage and data protection market. World Backup Day quotes have been vetted for relevance and ability to add business value.

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