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Why Cybercriminals Are Targeting Your Backups and How to Be Prepared

Solutions Review

Most organizations believe they’re prepared for ransomware attacks with a simple strategy: maintain good backups and use them to restore systems if cybercriminals encrypt their data. Recent research from IDC reveals that in 2023, more than half of all ransomware attacks included attempts to compromise backup systems.

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Creating an organizational multi-Region failover strategy

AWS Disaster Recovery

This allows you to build multi-Region applications and leverage a spectrum of approaches from backup and restore to pilot light to active/active to implement your multi-Region architecture. Component-level failover Applications are made up of multiple components, including their infrastructure, code and config, data stores, and dependencies.

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How Pure Protect //DRaaS Shields Your Business from Natural Disasters 

Pure Storage

Fast failover and minimal downtime: One of the key benefits of Pure Protect //DRaaS is its rapid failover capability. Australian wildfires (2020): After losing their office to wildfires, an Australian company restored operations within 48 hours thanks to their offsite backup and recovery system.

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The Evolving Relationship Between Backup and Disaster Recovery

Zerto

When computing first began and data was stored in various types of removable media, it quickly became apparent that backups were a good idea, as media could be lost or corrupted. The need for a safe backup copy was the birth of disaster recovery in IT. The need for a safe backup copy was the birth of disaster recovery in IT.

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How is Cyber Recovery Different from Disaster Recovery and Backup & Recovery?

Zerto

In an era where cyber threats are constantly evolving, understanding the differences between cyber recovery, disaster recovery (DR) , and backup & recovery is critical to ensuring an organization’s resilience and security. While backups are a critical component of both cyber recovery and DR, they are reactive by nature.

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Can Your Disaster Recovery Keep Up? Part 1 – The Need for Speed

Zerto

Heres why: Ransomware doesnt wait: Attacks are escalating, targeting backups, and spreading fast. Competitors may rely on recovering from periodic snapshots or through tedious manual failover processes, but these approaches leave too much room for error. In fact, true resilience demands both. Whats at Stake?

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Types of Backup: Select Wisely to Avoid Costly Data Loss

Zerto

Backup technology has existed as long as data has needed to be recovered. We’ve seen countless iterations of backup solutions, media types, and ways of storing backup data. This last decade, many new backup tools have come out. Backup Appliances. Software-based Backup.

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