Security News > 2022 > April > Backup is key for cyber recovery

Other key findings 56 percent of respondents admitted to having paid a ransom to regain access to their data, applications, or systems but only 14 percent got all their data back following payment.

Backup is the clear leader for cyber recovery strategy and can empower organizations to refuse to negotiate with ransomers.

"Public cloud infrastructure has become a destination of choice for data backup, which means that cloud data is increasingly becoming a target for cyber criminals who really want to render businesses inoperable. Organizations are concerned that their backup copies could be corrupted by ransomware attacks and protecting backup copies is a key prevention tactic," said Jakob Østergaard, CTO at Keepit.

As an alternative to ransom paying, the study revealed that air-gapped backup and the ability to granularly restore data have emerged as best practices among industry leaders, with hybrid methodologies favored.

In the context of backing up cloud data, this means allowing the backup or recovery copies to be physically and logically separated from the rest of the network.

Air-gapping is a time-tested solution that allows backup or recovery data copies to be housed separately from the rest of the network.

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