Security News > 2020 > April > Backup or Disaster Recovery for Protection Against Ransomware?
The question now becomes, is backup alone enough, or is full disaster recovery required to mitigate the effect of ransomware? By 'disaster recovery', we mean the full gamut of backing up data, recovering that data, and business restitution without loss of business continuity.
A good backup system will allow rapid if not immediate recovery minimizing the loss of data to an annoyance rather than a disaster.
Backup remains the basis for DR. However, explains John South, senior director of NTT's global threat intelligence center, "DR is a more comprehensive program to protect the company should a disaster occur. Whereas the backup strategy is important to recover important data, DR takes into consideration all the factors that would be important in bringing the business back to life. Where will the employees work? What equipment will they use? What business processes are the most critical to bring back into service first as the recovery process begins?".
"Investing in multi-cloud strategies for attack prevention along with disaster recovery backup plans and cyber recovery," suggests Rüya Barrett, VP of data protection at Dell EMC, "Should be a key element of a modern business continuity strategy."
"For a larger organization with a large number of systems including network file shares, a disaster recovery plan and a solid offline backup are needed in order to recover efficiently from a successful ransomware attack," says Chris Morales, head of security analytics at Vectra.