Authored by Ripu Bajwa, Director & General Manager — Data Protection Solutions, Dell Technologies
How secure is your organization’s critical data? Is your business
smarter than the smartest hacker?
Have you transformed your security strategy to meet today’s dynamic needs? –
These are a few questions that every business owner, big and small, needs to
ask themselves!
Especially in the year 2020, the disruption has compelled businesses
to redefine their work culture, embrace remote working, further reiterating the
criticality of cybersecurity and data protection. Businesses, right now, are
required to tackle their digital preparedness while tackling cyber threats head-on.
With smart technology comes smarter threats
In the current scenario, with millions of employees working
from home, organizations are rapidly adopting software-defined networking,
cloud delivery models, analytics, Internet of Things, and open APIs. This has
opened doors for a myriad of security challenges, which can be categorized as
cloud security, network security, and user security. In India during the
lockdown, the number of cyberattacks such as fake apps and phishing emails spiked
up by 260% with Kerala recording the highest1.
Some of the most visible threats are the use of wireless
routers that are shared asset where data traffic flow is not controlled and
covers a range of activities that include personal information; weakly protected
devices; unfiltered internet; accessing unsuspecting links to malicious websites;
and IP theft and leakages to name a few.
For many
organizations, cybercrime, including ransomware, acts as a rampant creating
tremendous challenges with respect to data protection and recovery – where
traditional approaches are insufficient. Being unable to recover critical data
and resume business operations after an attack can be overwhelming. Hence, businesses
require a more proactive and systematic approach to addressing such challenges.
There is a dire need for an integrated solution that help businesses identify
data corruption with ML and intelligent analytics, protect business-critical
data from ransomware and cyber-attacks, and accelerate recovery of valuable
data in order to quickly resume business operations.
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How to approach Data Protection today
As organizations transform their business models to stay
relevant in the current situation, they need to put special focus on rising
safety concerns. Although businesses and employees are aware of the cyber
threats around their data storage, the unavailability of advanced data protection
solutions may pose a deeper challenge, especially for the IT security managers.
Today, businesses have to manage extensive and diverse workloads
across locations while ensuring each part, from the data generation to the end,
is secured. Only this can enable businesses to stay resilient in the face of
any disruption, while protecting the data. Here, the focus should be laid upon Disaster
Recovery rather than Disaster Management in order to be ready for any
unprecedented threat. This will not only help with regular back-up but will
also make duplicate copies of mission-critical data. Organizations must also
adopt round-the-clock Data Protection with real-time updates, to stay secure in
an ever-evolving environment.
Being data smart will require moving from traditional
methods to more proactive methods, and security should be more than just a tool
but rather a process. And eventually, every business must narrow down on a
single reliable technology partner that delivers multi-platform security.
Stepping up data protection game with new Dell
PowerProtect portfolio
At Dell Technologies, we realize how the world has shifted
and how the criticality of cyber recovery or data protection has elevated in
recent times. Understanding this, we bring our extended PowerProtect portfolio
and PowerProtect
Cyber Recovery - to enable our
partners and customers with cutting-edge data protection, ensuring security of
data – regardless of where it resides.
PowerProtect Cyber Recovery is engineered to provide
- Automated air gap with data isolation and governance
- CyberSense analytics and Machine Learning monitor data integrity
Forensic
tools to discover, diagnose and remediate ongoing attacks
It is the first and right now, the only solution to receive
endorsement for meeting all the data bounding requirements of the Sheltered
Harbor standard, and this is how it is protecting the U.S. financial
institutions from cyber threats <WatchVideo>.
To put it in a nutshell, the modern and intelligent
solutions are engineered to automate workflows to protect and segregate
critical data, identify dubious activity and fast-track data recovery, enabling
businesses to resume operations – rapidly – while keeping data protected
anywhere.
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