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STORAGE ’ S ROLE IN ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES OF ENSURING CYBER RESILIENCE
By Scott Sinclair , ESG Practice Director and Senior Analyst and Monya Keane , ESG Senior Research Analyst
PRESENTED BY Executive Summary
Data ’ s role as a transformational business asset continues to grow . Thanks to increasing investments in applicationdevelopment ; modern DevOps practices ; and heightened business intelligence , analytics , and
Download whitepaper machine learning demands , nearly all businesses are hereeaccelerating data creation and usage . They are also
scaling the number of locations that leverage data . This proliferation of data combined with mounting pressure to accelerate operations has led to an increase in thecomplexity of both IT infrastructure and IT operations .
Such factors put organizations and their infrastructures at great risk of experiencing malicious attacks , human error , and negligent behavior . Unfortunately , legacy strategies cannot adequately ensure that business operations will continue during and after these types of incidents . Companies can try to weave together capabilities in an attempt to prevent attacks and other breaches , but functional gaps , poor integration , and management complexity make meeting security objectives time-consuming and difficult .
Changing organizational mindsets from prevention to incident preparation — e . g ., implementing storage solutions with built-in cyber resilience — is key to safeguarding critical data assets and being able to quickly respond to and recover from ransomware and other cyberattacks .
Introduction
IT faces new challenges . Nearly half ( 46 %) of ESG survey respondents say IT is more complex today than it was two years ago . This increase in complexity may
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