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Financial services organizations are being squeezed on all sides, as regulators are tightening legislation, from SOX to CCPA, GDPR and global data privacy laws like PIPL. In this firestorm, it's never been more important for financial services organizations to level up their data protection and risk mitigation strategies. According to the report, financial services reported the second-lowest rate of data encryption at 54%, compared to a global average of 65%. Amongst the financial services organizations that were hit, 52% paid the ransom to restore data, which is higher than the global average of 46%, and the survey found that the average remediation cost in financial services was US$1.59M, which is above the global average of US$1.4M. Response rates are too slow.
Social media company Meta said it will begin testing end-to-end encryption on its Messenger platform this week for select users as the default option, as the company continues to slowly add security layers to its various chat services. "If you're in the test group, some of your most frequent chats may be automatically end-to-end encrypted, which means you won't have to opt in to the feature," Sara Su, product management director of Messenger Trust, said.
You know that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when a digital file goes missing? You immediately think: "Did I back that up? I must have. Did I?" Well, let's go over the top five best backup practices so we can avoid that feeling forever. A quick word of warning - make sure whatever backup methods you're using are approved by your IT admin.
The state of the Microsoft 365 data protection market. Why it is an imperative to protect Microsoft 365 data.
Nothing ever stays the same for long in IT. New ways to meet the changing requirements of businesses are constantly needed alongside in-house structural and policy reforms, plus the added complication of complying with new and updated regulations. For busy IT staff there isn't always the time to comprehensively strip everything back to build in the new.
Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office offers a robust imaging tool that walks you through the process of creating a full image of your running machine and gives you a choice of destinations to house the image. Doesn't it? Fear not: Even if you're not the most adept at using technology, you can successfully create an image of your system with Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office.
Most IT infrastructures evolve over time as the needs of the business and its users change to meet fresh demands and comply with updated organizational policies and regulatory requirements. Because IT staff rarely have the time to orchestrate root and branch transformations, they generally end up layering additional tools and applications on top of, or alongside, the ones they already have to smooth the transition.
Once called Acronis Cyber Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect is a comprehensive data security solution. FeatureAcronisBackblaze Cloud backupsYesYes Unlimited storageNoYes Encrypted storageYesYes Backup automationYesYes Continuous threat monitoringYesNo Common features of Acronis and Backblaze.
Acronis is more than just a company that sells backup tools. Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office doesn't stop at protection and backup.
99% of surveyed IT decision makers state they have backup strategies in place, but just 26% have admitted they were unable to fully restore all data/documents when recovering from a backup, according to an annual survey conducted in April 2022 by Apricorn. In response to questioning around their existing backup strategy, 27% acknowledged having automated backup to both a central and personal repository.