Arcserve, the world’s most experienced provider of backup, recovery, and immutable storage solutions for unified data resilience against ransomware and disasters, has released a segment from its annual independent global research. The segment focuses on government IT departments’ approach and experience with ransomware and data recovery preparedness. The findings reveal several weaknesses that can hamper government departments’ fight against ransomware and their ability to recover data.
Key findings include:
Said David Lenz, vice president of Asia Pacific at Arcserve, “It’s like opening yourself up to a one-two knock-out punch. Gaps in protecting remote workers and cloud-based apps and data create an ideal hunting ground for bad actors and ransomware, while not having documented and tested recovery plans leave an organisation more vulnerable and poorly equipped to recover data.”
Arcserve urges government IT departments to prioritize data protection and rapid recovery by following three key steps: develop and regularly test a disaster recovery plan, implement the advanced 3-2-1-1 backup strategy to guard against ransomware, and utilise immutable storage to prevent data alteration.