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SAN JOSE, Calif. Aug. 29, 2022 (BUSINESS WIRE) — New international analysis commissioned by Cohesity, a pacesetter in next-gen information administration, reveals that just about half of respondents say their firm is determined by outdated, legacy backup and restoration infrastructure to handle and defend their information. In some circumstances, this know-how is greater than 20 years previous, and was designed lengthy earlier than at present’s multicloud period and onslaught of refined cyberattacks plaguing enterprises globally.
“On this survey, we discovered practically 100 respondents who stated their organizations are counting on outdated information infrastructure, and this raises the query, what number of different companies are in the identical state of affairs all over the world?”
Challenges pertaining to outdated infrastructure might simply be compounded by the truth that many IT and safety groups don’t appear to have a plan in place to mobilize if and when a cyberattack happens. Almost 60% of respondents* expressed some stage of concern that their IT and safety groups would have the ability to mobilize effectively to reply to an assault.
These are simply among the findings from an April 2022 survey, carried out by Censuswide, of greater than 2,000 IT and SecOps professionals (break up practically 50/50 between the 2 teams) in the US, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. All respondents play a job within the decision-making course of for IT or safety inside their organizations.
“IT and safety groups ought to elevate the alarm bell if their group continues to make use of antiquated know-how to handle and safe their most important digital asset – their information,” stated Brian Spanswick, chief info safety officer, Cohesity. “Cyber criminals are actively preying on this outdated infrastructure, as they realize it was not constructed for at present’s dispersed, multicloud environments, nor was it constructed to assist firms defend and quickly get better from refined cyberattacks.”
Backup and Restoration Infrastructure That May Be Thought of Archaic
Forty-six % of respondents stated that their group depends on major backup and restoration infrastructure that was designed in, or earlier than, 2010. Almost 100 respondents (94 out of 2011) revealed that their group depends on backup and restoration infrastructure that was constructed earlier than the brand new millennium — within the Nineteen Nineties.
Enterprises are using this legacy know-how even though managing and securing information environments has grow to be far more complicated, not simply due to the exponential progress in structured and unstructured information, however due to the huge array of areas the place that information is saved. Forty-one % of respondents acknowledged that they retailer information on-premises, 43% depend on public cloud storage, 53% make the most of a personal cloud, and 44% have adopted a hybrid mannequin (some respondents are utilizing multiple choice).
“In 2022, the truth that any group is utilizing know-how to handle their information that was designed within the Nineteen Nineties is scary, on condition that information could be compromised, exfiltrated, held hostage, and it will possibly create large compliance points for organizations,” stated Spanswick. “On this survey, we discovered practically 100 respondents who stated their organizations are counting on outdated information infrastructure, and this raises the query, what number of different companies are in the identical state of affairs all over the world?”
What Retains IT and SecOps Groups Up at Evening
Respondents highlighted what they consider can be their largest boundaries to getting their group again up and operating after a profitable ransomware assault. The findings are as follows (respondents have been requested to test all that apply):
- integration between IT and safety methods (41%)
- lack of coordination between IT and Safety (38%)
- lack of an automatic catastrophe restoration system (34%)
- antiquated backup and restoration methods (32%)
- lack of a current, clear, immutable copy of knowledge (32%)
- lack of and well timed detailed alerts (31%)
With respect to the shortage of coordination between IT and safety, this coincides with different findings from this survey, denoting {that a} hole typically exists between IT and SecOps that places companies and safety postures in danger. For extra on that, click on right here.
What Do Survey Respondents Need Administration to Prioritize?
Respondents revealed that modernizing information administration, safety, and restoration capabilities, along with rising collaboration between IT and SecOps, presents a path to strengthening their organizations’ safety postures and multicloud operations. The highest 5 “will need to have” measures that respondents would ask administration for in 2022 are:
1. Integration between trendy information administration and safety platforms and AI-powered anomalous information entry alerts to offer early warning of assaults in progress (34%)
2. Extensible platform for third-party purposes for safety operations and incident response (33%)
3. Automated catastrophe restoration of methods and information (33%)
4. Upgrading from legacy backup and restoration methods (32%)
5. Fast, organizationwide backup with in-transit information encryption (30%)
“Each IT decision-makers and SecOps ought to co-own the cyber-resilience outcomes, and this consists of an analysis of all infrastructure utilized in accordance with the NIST framework for information identification, safety, detection, response, and restoration. Additionally, each groups have to have a complete understanding of the potential assault floor,” stated Spanswick. “Subsequent-gen information administration platforms can shut the know-how hole, enhance information visibility, assist IT and SecOps groups sleep higher at night time, and keep one step forward of unhealthy actors who take nice enjoyment of exfiltrating information from legacy methods that may’t be recovered.”
For extra info:
- To study extra about Cohesity Information Safety, click on right here.
- To study extra about Cohesity Ransomware Restoration, click on right here.
- To study extra about Cohesity Menace Protection, click on right here.
- To study extra about next-gen information administration, click on right here.
[*] When requested “If a ransomware assault occurred at present, how assured, if in any respect, are you/would you be that your IT and Safety groups would have the ability to mobilize effectively to reply to the assault,” 60% applies to respondents who stated ‘Considerably assured’, ‘Not very assured’, and ‘By no means assured’.
About Cohesity
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