Research results show organizations are not backing up their data or testing backups frequently enough to properly protect themselves.
Today, Zerto, a leader in IT resilience and disaster recovery solutions, published research that shows a significant number of organizations do not back up their data or test their business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) capabilities with enough frequency. As such, businesses across the world are introducing the risk of disruption and data loss in a world expecting 24/7 availability.
The IDC State of IT Resilience Report, also commissioned by Zerto, noted that companies pay a high financial and reputational cost for downtime caused by ransomware and other cyber threats. It reveals that 37% of respondents experienced a direct loss of revenue, 61% suffered damage to company reputation and 26% indicated a permanent loss of customers, reinforcing the need to find a solution that mitigates the risk and reduces the impact of downtime caused by cyberattacks.
“The combination of infrequent data backups and lapsed BC/DR capability testing within an organization is a cybercriminal’s dream,” explains Caroline Seymour, vice president, product marketing at Zerto. “If a company suffers a ransomware attack and cannot recover quickly, then the cybercriminal has full control of the situation. The company must either pay or accept that it is going to be offline for a significant amount of time. By contrast, if an organization has deployed a CDP solution, it can almost instantaneously recover to a point-in-time before the attack—and remove any leverage that cybercriminals may have.”
To learn more about how customers are using Zerto to better recover from ransomware and help their IT Resilience, sign up for Virtual ZertoCON 2020 on June 10, 2020 https://www.zerto.com/zertocon/.
RSA Floor Show Survey Methodology:
Zerto surveyed 100 senior-level IT and security managers during RSA’s 2020 Conference to ascertain the impact of malware and the robustness of their cybersecurity defense strategies. The respondents represent a mix of service providers and end-users across a variety of business sectors.
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