Security News > 2024 > March > Essential elements of a strong data protection strategy
In this Help Net Security interview, Matt Waxman, SVP and GM for data protection at Veritas Technologies, discusses the components of a robust data protection strategy, emphasizing the escalating threat of ransomware.
Before outlining the most basic components of a data protection strategy, it may help to first explain why a data protection strategy is essential to begin with.
What key components should be included in a data protection strategy, and how do they contribute to overall data security?
Beyond the basics of data protection outlined above, it's important to move toward a unification of data protection with data security and data governance to improve overall cyber resilience.
In the face of threats that combine data exfiltration and encryption to up the ante with double extortion schemes, this integrated ecosystem of data security, data protection and data governance is the only way to achieve gap-free cyber resilience that is both proactive and reactive.
Knowing these things and implementing associated plans and policies will help organizations align their data backup practices with their overall data protection strategies.