Security News > 2021 > December > Protecting your critical infrastructure is one thing…protecting your backups is the same thing

If there's one thing we have a lot of, it's data.

Veeam Software solution architect John Wood points out, "The data that you have today is obviously the most valuable data that you have."

The problem is, as AWS data management and storage specialist Sumit Kalia explains, traditional data protection approaches weren't developed with modern threats in mind: "The emphasis was placed on some sort of natural event, such as a flood or an earthquake, and centred on physical separation, tape shipping, and high availability between sites."

How should you approach protecting this data? And ensuring that you can get it back up and running in the event of a ransomware - or any type of cyber - attack?

Veeam's platform can also be used to monitor and scan data for potential vulnerabilities or compromises, for example by detecting large changes within data sets.

Once you've made this leap the whole issue of data protection is no longer an adjunct to your critical infrastructure.

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