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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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World Backup Day Quotes from Experts for 2025

Solutions Review

Solutions Review’s Executive Editor Tim King compiled this roundup of World Backup Day quotes from experts for 2025, part of our ongoing coverage of the enterprise storage and data protection market. Note: World Backup Day quotes are listed in the order we received them.

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Data Resilience: The Key to AI and Cybersecurity

Solutions Review

The current conversations in the technology landscape are being driven by coverage of two topics: AI and cybersecurity. This is achieved through AI-powered techniques like detection and security scoring, automatic diagnostics and remediation analysis, and repurposing backup data for mining and development testing.

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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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The Crucial Role of Data Forensics in Post-cyberattack Recovery

Pure Storage

Automated tools, such as an immutable backup solution, can help you quickly collect evidence required for a thorough investigation. Backup integrity and reinfection risk: Restoring systems after an attack is tricky 63% of organizations risk reinfection because their backups contain malicious code.

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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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World Backup Day—Time to Revisit Your Data Backup and Recovery Plan

Zerto

While there is never a wrong time to evaluate your data backup and recovery plan, there is certainly no more appropriate day than today—World Backup Day. Since its inception in 2011, World Backup Day has been the yearly reminder for users worldwide to evaluate their backup plans and what they are doing to protect against data loss.

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