Intelligent CISO Issue 55 | Page 23

While companies report that 47 % of data centre servers , 50 % of remote offices and 44 % of cloud instances are impacted in an attack , paying the ransom is not a recovery strategy .
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16 % routinely test by restoring and testing functionality . However , just over half ( 52 %) of organisations first restored to an isolated sandbox before recovering data after a ransomware attack .
“ While it ’ s becoming increasingly common for ‘ production ’ to outpace ‘ protection ’, the growing gap between what organisations expect and what IT is placed to deliver is worrying ,” said Dan Middleton , Vice President UK and Ireland , Veeam . “ Add in the fact that ransomware is almost a guaranteed threat that every organisation must prepare for and we are clearly headed for a data protection emergency .

While companies report that 47 % of data centre servers , 50 % of remote offices and 44 % of cloud instances are impacted in an attack , paying the ransom is not a recovery strategy .

“ But what ’ s more concerning is the effectiveness of attackers to proactively destroy their victim ’ s data backup repositories . To protect your data , you need a secure , immutable backup in place as your last line of defence and while IT departments are under pressure to cut costs , data protection budgets should never be reduced .
“ It ’ s a false economy to think you can save money on your data protection strategies . Instead , by investing wisely and taking a modern approach to data protection , you not only gain an advantage over attackers but also increase business resiliency which can give you the edge over competitors .” u
United Kingdom and Ireland
2022
Top Trends in Data Protection
Impact , costs , and benefits of modern data protection
79 %
of IT leaders see a “ Protection Gap ” between tolerable data loss and how IT is protecting their data
Cloud Production & Protection
Modernizing in 2022 usually includes an increase in cloud services for production and protection .
76 %
of organizations had at least one ransomware attack in the last year
Enterprise & BC / DR
The keyword for 2022 for modernizing data protection is “ heterogeneity .” Organizations should be integrating their tools , automating processes , and orchestrating workflows .
20 %
of organizations will change backup solutions for cost reasons , while 23 % are looking to improve results
33 %
of European data was unrecoverable after a ransomware attack
In late 2021 , an independent research firm surveyed over 3,000 IT decision makers and IT professionals about their IT and data protection drivers and strategies heading into 2022 .
53 %
of servers are within the data center ( physical and virtual ), while 47 % are cloud hosted ( MSP , IaaS or SaaS )
70 %
in Europe still rely on manual steps or scripts to resume during BC / DR
Top Drivers & Reality Gaps
It ’ s increasingly common for “ production ” to outpace “ protection ,” creating a gap between what businesses expect and what IT can deliver .
65 %
of organizations use cloud services as part of their data protection ( DP ) strategy
Ransomware Frequency & Impact
Ransomware is a disaster – and an almost guaranteed threat that every organization must prepare for .
41 %
of IT leaders in Europe consider hybrid-cloud workload protection as the most important aspect of enterprise backup
# 1 Backup and Recovery
Veeam is the leader in backup , recovery , and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection , providing a single platform for Cloud , Virtual , Physical , SaaS and Kubernetes environments .
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