Veeam Software, global supplier of solutions for ransomware recovery and data protection, has published findings from its fifth annual Veeam Data Protection Trends Report. According to the survey, IT executives feel even less secured and are more worried about their capacity to recover and restore mission-critical data, despite corporations saying they would spend more attempting to ward off cyber-attacks.
The respondents revealed that, while businesses are emphasizing the use of the cloud for large-scale recoveries, only a tiny portion of them think they could recover from even a minor crisis in less than a week. Cyberattacks continue to be the leading source of disruptions.
“Ransomware continues to be the biggest threat to business continuity. It’s the number one cause of outages today, and protecting against it is hampering digital transformation efforts,” said Dave Russell, VP of Enterprise Strategy at Veeam. “Furthermore, although companies are increasing their spend on protection, less than a third of companies believe they can recover quickly from a small attack. The findings in this year’s Veeam Data Protection Trends Report highlight the need for continued cyber vigilance, and the importance of every organization to ensure they have the right protection and recovery capabilities. It’s why Veeam’s mission in 2024 is to keep businesses running.”
Cloud-Hosted Workload Protection and Reliability
Other notable insights from Veeam’s annual report would include the following:
- Most Organizations Are Using Containers but Not Backing Them All Up - With 59% of businesses using containers in production and another 37% either implementing or preparing to do so, container utilization is still on the increase. Regretfully, only 25% of enterprises use a backup solution designed specifically for containers; the remaining enterprises, on the other hand, merely backup a portion of the underlying components, such as the database contents or storage repositories. In the event of a crisis or even a simple import/configuration problem that has to be fixed, neither strategy guarantees that the apps and services will be available again.
- 2024 Will See Significant Job Changes Outside the Organization - For data security efforts, the fact that 47% of respondents said they intended to look for a new job outside of their current company within the next year poses both a difficulty and an opportunity. Though the market shift presents an opportunity to add knowledge to protect modern production workloads that reside in clouds, like Microsoft 365, Kubernetes containers, or other IaaS/PaaS deployments, losing valuable data protection talent puts organizations at a major disadvantage when crises inevitably strike.
- Hybrid Production Architectures are Forcing Reconsideration of ‘Backup’ - For the second year in a row, cloud-hosted workload protection and reliability rank first when it comes to "enterprise backup" solutions (IaaS and SaaS). For enterprises using outdated datacenter-centric data security solutions, this poses a challenge. IT teams that rely on outdated backup solutions that do not provide fair protection for workloads hosted in the cloud will find it difficult to uphold service level agreements (SLAs) when their organizations shift workloads between platforms and clouds. This is especially true for those that use cloud-native services like Microsoft 365/Salesforce (SaaS) or containers.
