By Stephen Manley,
Customers need data protection vendors to integrate into their data security ecosystem. Organizations looking to “tighten the belt” on their IT budgets do not have the capital to invest in multiple siloed products for security posture, recovery, management, analytics, and integration with third-party tools. Even worse, siloed products leave gaps for cyber criminals to penetrate.
Since cyber criminals target the weakest part of your organization, as data centers become more secure, they are attacking cloud environments. Companies will be forced to extend their cyber resilience beyond the data center. With these additional requirements, the market will need to help customers do more with less — less money, less staff, and less experience. There will be a need for autonomous data resilience — in which the customers’ data is automatically secured and protected.
How should organizations integrate data protection into data security? First, executives must create a risk management strategy that incorporates cyber-insurance, security, and data protection. Second, data protection teams must work with security to ensure that their backups are secured. Finally,…
