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How snapshots - point-in-time copies of data - can improve data security.

Here are a few ways to use snapshots to enhance data security.

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"Unstructured data platforms like network-attached storage, scale-out file systems and object storage provide inadequate protection from malicious deletion, encryption and data exfiltration, making it an easy-to-attack target," Rozeman said.

Just as important as preventing breaches or alternations of data is being able to recover data quickly when data loss occurs.

This might be data from one particular application or database, or taking snapshots of each database, so you can pick and choose the most critical snapshots to use for recovery.

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