We live in an increasingly digital and connected world, which brings us many benefits, but also means exposure at the highest level, with an increasing number of security attacks and incidents. A recent study published by Portugal’s National Center for Cybersecurity illustrates this reality and points out that ransomware attacks are the most persistent threats. In 2022, IDC surveyed 500 companies of different sizes and industries and learned that 47% of them had suffered ransomware attacks, half of which were affected by data losses.
That is why cyber resilience has become so important. The goal is to ensure that an organization can continue its activities even after a security incident or data loss without compromising its levels of excellence and efficiency.
Consultancy firm Deloitte has released a report highlighting the Cloud (50%) and Data Analytics (43%) as the areas of digital transformation where cyber resilience will play a key-role over the next 3 to 5 years.
But how to promote Cyber resilience in organizations, regardless of their size and industry? By adopting a holistic approach to Cybersecurity, focusing on detection and response prevention measures. This will strengthen confidence in data storage and recovery, ensuring that backups are available and effective when needed.
The advantages of cyber resilience cannot be exaggerated, especially regarding the integrity of the data infrastructure:
- Reduced downtime:Allows data infrastructure recovery within a shorter time after a cyberattack, thus ensuring business continuity and reducing the financial impact of the attack.
- Data protection and privacy:Always promotes data protection, ensuring security and compliance with the technology architecture.
- Strengthening confidence:Companies must adopt measures and strategies to ensure that data is protected, appropriately stored, and recoverable. Only complete data protection can guarantee business continuity.
- Guaranteed compliance: Implementing cyber resilience measures makes it possible for organizations to guarantee compliance with current legislation and regulations. This is especially important as guidelines are constantly being tweaked and regulators continue working on new frameworks.
- Disaster recovery and business continuity: Disaster recovery is gaining traction with the cases of ransomware attacks. Consequently, companies must have strategies to respond to a materialized incident and recover, as soon as possible, business to its normal state. If you implement a plan B, everything will be much easier.
- A more competitive company: Cyber resilience provides companies with a competitive advantage over other companies in the same market. Those who develop management systems based on best practices create effective operations.
As companies compete on the global stage of a digital economy and produce and store amounts of data every day, it is more important than ever to ensure the cyber resilience of all their data. This is the only way to protect the data infrastructure and ensure business continuity in the event of cyberattacks and security incidents. Threats are rising and malicious actors are constantly seeking ways to bypass security safeguards and cause as much damage as possible.
What should a company do then if this reality is inevitable? The goal of making a cyber-resilient organization can only be achieved with the help of a highly skilled partner specialized in Cloud and Cybersecurity. A partner with experience and expertise in advanced technologies, crisis management and, more than everything with a structured approach to the so called Route2Cloud.
