As the volume of data continues to increase and the threat landscape continues to evolve, it is increasingly important for organizations to protect backup data from unwanted deletion. Threats today can take the form of a malicious insider deleting backup data or a targeted cyberattack on the backups themselves. Modern ransomware attacks often first seek out and destroy backups before moving on to encrypting production data. However, companies will benefit from implementing immutability, the act of making data writable but noneditable for a defined period of time, as part of their data protection arsenal to help avoid or recover from a loss of production data situation.
The rise in cyber incidents, which according to the Veeam Data Protection Trends Report 2023 is the leading cause of outages over the past three years, is bringing the need for immutability to the fore, particularly as most organizations reported having fallen victim to cyber incidents, on average, twice a year.
Your data, your responsibility
While many organizations have transitioned to Microsoft 365 with a belief that this alleviates some of the pressure of managing data security, this is not the case. Securing the data remains the responsibility of the company that collects and stores the information, while Microsoft merely provides the infrastructure to host it.
Further, there is a misconception that email data cannot be encrypted, however, not only can it be encrypted, it can also be deleted maliciously both internally and by threat actors. To minimize this risk, companies need to implement a backup plan that includes immutability to minimize the risk of outages and total loss of data.
Moving beyond traditional infrastructure
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