Recent cybersecurity statistics underline the challenges facing executives working to develop “cyber resilient” organizations. What is cyber resilience? A company’s ability to anticipate, endure and recover from digital crises like ransomware attacks.
That’s why these trends are so troubling:
- Proliferating cybercrime syndicates: the ranks of ransomware groups grew 67% last year.
- Accelerating pace: analysts forecast ransomware assaults happen every two seconds by 2031.
- Innovative social engineering: new malware methods like “smishing” combine elements of email, SMS, voicemail and/or scanning technologies.
- Diversifying attack vectors: ransomware increasingly invades networks through today’s broadening array of mobile devices and remote connections.
- Widening target zone: security breaches through the Internet of Things (IoT) increased more than 100% last year.
No wonder surveys show a third of IT professionals have little confidence in their company’s cyber resilience. The reason? Those tech pros have little faith in their backup and disaster recovery (BUDR) solutions. A premier IT managed services provider (MSP) can alleviate this anxiety by implementing a hybrid business continuity routine:
- Maintain a regular local image backup of operating systems, applications and databases on site.
- Generate and store an offsite backup daily as protection against failures at facilities.
This BUDR configuration uses cloud tech to enable rapid restoration in the wake of a cyber disaster like a ransomware breach. Want to learn how? Give us a call. |
