Ransomware Woes: Why Your ITaaS Provider Might Just Be Your Biggest Disaster!
Ransomware is the new villain in town, overshadowing natural disasters in causing IT outages. As IT estates extend across on-prem, cloud, and ITaaS providers, disaster recovery becomes a comedy of errors. Remember, when it comes to ITaaS and disaster recovery, trust but verify—or prepare to star in your own IT horror show!
Hot Take:
In the world of disaster recovery, it’s not the floods or fires you should fear, but the digital deluge of ransomware. It’s like prepping for a tornado only to be taken out by a cyber hurricane. The secret sauce? Homogeneity. Keep your IT estate as consistent as your grandma’s secret cookie recipe, and your data recovery might just be a sweet success.
Key Points:
- Ransomware now leads the pack for IT outages, surpassing natural disasters.
- Homogeneous IT environments simplify disaster recovery processes.
- IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) providers pose unique challenges for disaster recovery.
- Healthcare sector provides cautionary tales of supplier-dependent disasters.
- Disaster recovery requires robust, immutable backups and verified recovery plans.
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