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5 Ways Your DR and Backup Solutions May Be Weakening Your Cyber Resilience

Zerto

Are your disaster recovery and backup solutions up to the task of cyber resilience ? Not Following the 3-2-1-1 Data Protection Rule The 3-2-1 rule is a data backup strategy that has become the industry standard for data protection and disaster readiness, and that keeps on evolving. Consider these five ways they may be deficient.

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The Critical Role of Safe and Secure Backup System Storage

Solutions Review

Johannes Ullrich explains the critical role of safe and secure backup system storage. It’s no secret that backup systems are critical to preserving sensitive data files from ransomware, theft, sabotage, and accidental loss. Remote access backups, for instance, are often reliant on password protections. million in losses.

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The CISOs Guide to Storage & Backup Cyber Resiliency

Solutions Review

Data about the security posture of their storage and backup systems is either woefully deficient or missing entirely. That state of affairs is likely to remain until the inherent risk posed by vulnerable storage and backup systems is addressed. That means they are wide open to attack from ransomware and other forms of malware.

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5 Critical Reasons for Microsoft 365 Backup

Zerto

A simple recovery from a backup can turn into a big problem after Microsoft 365 has deleted the data forever, or if the retention period has passed. Microsoft 365 has limited backup and retention policies that can only manage situational data loss, and they are not intended to be a comprehensive backup solution.

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Best practices for verifying and validating your backups

Acronis

Many IT teams and companies think they’re successfully backing up their data and applications, only to have unpleasant surprises in the case of a malware attack, outage or other event. To overcome these challenges, you need to make sure you’re verifying that your backups are working exactly how you think they should.

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Automated Backup: How It Works & Why To Use It | Unitrends

Unitrends

Most businesses know the importance of backup and recovery when it comes to the protection of digital assets from deletion, corruption, malware and other threats. That’s why backup is the last line of defense. A good backup should quietly run in the background, allowing IT pros to focus on daily critical tasks.

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Software-Defined Backup vs. Appliances; What’s the Difference?

Solutions Review

In this submission, FalconStor Vice President of Customer Success Abdul Hashmi offers a comparison of software-defined backup vs. appliances. Enterprises large and small need to consider 10 factors when choosing between a software-defined backup target or a dedicated all-in-one backup appliance for data protection and disaster recovery.

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