Arcserve study finds businesses and organizations not re-evaluating disaster recovery plans and ransomware defence as remote work expands
Arcserve has announced findings from an independent global research survey of large organisations. A key result in the research survey found that 69% of Australian respondents are not re-evaluating and updating disaster recovery plans and ransomware defence as the workforce moves to a remote work model and the increased use of mobile devices on the data perimeter.
Considering cyber criminals focus their attacks more on remote workers, it is a business imperative that organisations regularly assess changes in IT and work environments and bolster ransomware defences and update disaster recovery plans accordingly.
Additional survey insights emphasise the lack of awareness of the need for an end-to-end data protection plan. Only 38% of respondents replied that edge and remote site data protection is critically important for their data recovery solution.
As cybercriminals constantly search for new methods to breach a business, a data backup and disaster recovery plan is essential to guarantee that all aspects of a company remain functional after a ransomware attack
The research survey also revealed that 46% found it difficult to ensure data compliance with country-restricted data (Canada, EU) when using cloud providers.
As cloud computing adoption grows and country privacy and ownership laws become more restrictive and complex, global organisations will struggle to manage their data across borders.
David Lenz, Vice President of Asia Pacific at Arcserve said “Our survey has unearthed significant data vulnerability gaps in large organisations’ view and approach to data protection as they standardise on a hybrid workforce strategy.”
“Ransomware attacks continue to disrupt business operations significantly, and this issue is not going away anytime soon.”
“It is critical that businesses continuously review and update their disaster recovery plans and incorporate data backup and recovery solutions and immutable storage as the foundation of their data resilience plan.” said Lenz
About the research conducted by Lead to Market:
IT executives of large organisations were interviewed for the survey. All participants had a budget or technical decision-making responsibility for data management, data protection, and storage solutions at a company with 500 to 5,000 employees and at least 100 TB of data. The survey was fielded in North America, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
