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Dave Russell, Senior Vice President, Head of Strategy at Veeam discusses battle-ready strategies in this cyberthreat filled environment

Time for a rethink

Awareness is only half the battle; preparedness is another matter. Now that industry benchmarks have improved so that organisations have a better idea of what to look for, they are waking up to an uncomfortable fact – they aren’ t as prepared as they ought to be. The Veeam report on data resilience among larger enterprises in collaboration with McKinsey found that key aspects of cyber resilience – even old-hat fundamentals like‘ People and

Processes – were regularly self-reported as significantly lacking.

How did we get here? And how can organisations shore up these shortcomings? For C-suite decision-makers, resilience perhaps isn’ t the most exciting or business-critical concern. Historically, it was often lumped in with general cybersecurity and assumed that it was already in place. Unfortunately, like most contingencies, the true value of data resilience can’ t be appreciated until things go wrong. Aside from the CISO, chief execs would often treat backup and recovery processes like you would an airbag. Forget it’ s in place at all, until you’ re involved in an incident and then suddenly you ' re thanking your lucky stars you had it in place.

With law enforcement cracking down on some of the most prominent groups, including the likes of BlackCat and LockBit, there might have been an assumption that cyberattacks as a whole are trending down. But the reality couldn ' t be further from the truth. In the last year alone, 69 % of companies faced an attack

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