CYBERSECURITY
Cyber Resilience: Put your guard up! Focusing now on a robust, long term cyber defence strategy to protect your entire storage and backup environment will be the best commitment and money that you can invest. BY GARETH BEANLAND, COUNTRY MANAGER, UK&I, INFINIDAT EUROPE Threats, real and perceived! Every demanding enterprise environment around the world faces the terrifying potential of an unsolicited cyber-attack. In a rightful response to these challenges the UK government is planning to build a £5 billion digital Cyber Force Centre in Lancashire that will help protect the Country’s critical infrastructure and retaliate against potentially hostile criminals and sophisticated state-funded hackers. With comprehensive cyber security and true preparedness becoming the new battleground against ransomware and malware attacks, it is essential that British businesses are also able to operate against potential adversaries. Indeed, this may sound like a huge investment by the UK in just the ‘potential’ of an attack, but in reality, most enterprises are faced with the constant, real
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threat of cyber-attacks, and the substantial financial and operational risks they can unexpectedly present. However, the key to any successful cyber defence strategy is not to necessarily focus on spending budget excessively but it must be on building the capability of quickly restoring data systems and applications from trusted sources that are inherently protected from malicious corruption. When ransomware takes data hostage, it destroys backup copies of data, steals credentials, leaks stolen information and worse. It has caused businesses of all sizes to shut down operations almost overnight, so it is not unusual for a company to pay a large sum of money, even though it isn’t recommended, to restore their business or risk everything. One approach for IT decision makers is to
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