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Kathleen Martin
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Ransomware is one of the biggest threats and challenges facing organisations today. A simple online search will reveal hundreds of high-profile attacks and scary statistics around the acceleration of ransomware incidents and the costs involved.
Mitigating this threat has become essential to survival in a digital world, but this is about more than just security. Data management plays a core role in minimising the risk of ransomware, protecting data, detecting threats, and recovering fast, as well as in delivering critical insight into data and tools to enable you to respond to threats and continuously improve security stature.
The state of ransomware
Ransomware is accelerating and showing no signs of slowing down. Every time new statistics are released, they show record highs in the number of attacks and the financial implications and collateral damage, including ransomware pay-outs, critical downtime, and costly reputational damage.
Many businesses are simply not adequately prepared to handle a ransomware event because the attack types have become increasingly sophisticated, with purpose-built ransomware tools that are being leveraged at scale by organised groups.
Added to this is the recent migration to a remote workforce which has driven more data to the edge, and growing cloud transformation and Software as a Service (SaaS) adoption, which has vastly increased the attack surface. It has never been more critical to shift mindsets and adopt a strategy that incorporates measures to not only prevent attacks but also give business the tools to properly recover when an attack does hit.
Proactive data recovery strategy
One thing that all organisations need to do is adopt global best practice standards around cybersecurity, such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework. This framework offers guidelines to help today’s organisations become ransomware ready and deliver a repeatable structure to enable the effective response to a breach. This in turn helps businesses to better understand, manage and reduce cybersecurity risk.
It is a broad guide that covers multiple aspects of cybersecurity. However, data protection and data management play a critical role in establishing this framework. Effectively, data protection forms an organisation’s last line of defence against a ransomware attack, enabling you to reduce downtime, fully recover and effectively minimise the impact of a data breach.
A multi-layered approach to data protection
Continue reading: https://it-online.co.za/2022/10/10/data-management-at-the-core-of-ransomware-readiness/
Mitigating this threat has become essential to survival in a digital world, but this is about more than just security. Data management plays a core role in minimising the risk of ransomware, protecting data, detecting threats, and recovering fast, as well as in delivering critical insight into data and tools to enable you to respond to threats and continuously improve security stature.
The state of ransomware
Ransomware is accelerating and showing no signs of slowing down. Every time new statistics are released, they show record highs in the number of attacks and the financial implications and collateral damage, including ransomware pay-outs, critical downtime, and costly reputational damage.
Many businesses are simply not adequately prepared to handle a ransomware event because the attack types have become increasingly sophisticated, with purpose-built ransomware tools that are being leveraged at scale by organised groups.
Added to this is the recent migration to a remote workforce which has driven more data to the edge, and growing cloud transformation and Software as a Service (SaaS) adoption, which has vastly increased the attack surface. It has never been more critical to shift mindsets and adopt a strategy that incorporates measures to not only prevent attacks but also give business the tools to properly recover when an attack does hit.
Proactive data recovery strategy
One thing that all organisations need to do is adopt global best practice standards around cybersecurity, such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework. This framework offers guidelines to help today’s organisations become ransomware ready and deliver a repeatable structure to enable the effective response to a breach. This in turn helps businesses to better understand, manage and reduce cybersecurity risk.
It is a broad guide that covers multiple aspects of cybersecurity. However, data protection and data management play a critical role in establishing this framework. Effectively, data protection forms an organisation’s last line of defence against a ransomware attack, enabling you to reduce downtime, fully recover and effectively minimise the impact of a data breach.
A multi-layered approach to data protection
Continue reading: https://it-online.co.za/2022/10/10/data-management-at-the-core-of-ransomware-readiness/
