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Dm MANAGEMENT: DISASTER RECOVERY<br />
'Not if, but when': time to<br />
review your BCDR strategy<br />
Backup your data - and help keep your business safe,<br />
says Joe Noonan, Product Executive, Backup and<br />
Disaster Recovery, Unitrends and Spanning<br />
Backup and disaster recovery<br />
solutions have always been<br />
critical components for any<br />
business. The past two years have,<br />
however, raised the stakes. The<br />
pandemic has highlighted the scale of<br />
the data threats facing every business<br />
today. Cybercrime is rampant, with<br />
ransomware, account takeover attacks,<br />
and phishing schemes all proliferating.<br />
Moreover, while hardware failures do<br />
not make the news, they are a<br />
frequent occurrence that can cause<br />
significant data loss across an<br />
organisation along with deletions<br />
through user error or malicious intent.<br />
The shift to remote working over the<br />
past two years has also raised levels of<br />
business vulnerability. Work from home<br />
(WFH) and hybrid arrangements have<br />
created more challenges for IT<br />
professionals, especially with the rise in<br />
shadow IT, which is the use of software<br />
and devices without the explicit<br />
approval of the IT department. More<br />
employees working remotely means<br />
more opportunities for cybercriminals<br />
to breach weaker defences across a<br />
distributed network of personal<br />
devices, corporate laptops, unsecured<br />
Wi-Fi networks, and exponentially<br />
more remote connections to their<br />
servers and applications.<br />
CYBERCRIME WAVE<br />
Cybercriminals have taken advantage of<br />
the remote and hybrid work world to<br />
conduct increasingly sophisticated<br />
attacks, making it even more critical for<br />
businesses to assess their business<br />
continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)<br />
plans frequently. In fact, the UK<br />
Information Commissioner's Office<br />
(ICO) recently announced that it<br />
recorded a 2,650% surge in phishing<br />
and a 423% increase in malware<br />
incidents in 2021. Employees working<br />
from home are often an especially<br />
vulnerable target.<br />
As the cybercrime landscape evolves,<br />
organisations must shift to a "not if,<br />
but when" mindset when assessing<br />
their security needs, which includes<br />
their BCDR strategy.<br />
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@<strong>DM</strong>MagAndAwards<br />
<strong>May</strong>/<strong>Jun</strong>e <strong>2022</strong><br />
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