World Backup Day: IT and security teams need to work better together or we are going to fail

It's like in the movie 'Groundhog Day'. Every 31st March the music plays and on World Backup Day we are reminded of the promise: 'I solemnly swear to back up my important documents and applications'. A noble goal that every company and every user immediately agrees to. But in the weeks surrounding World Backup Day, we hear from the media that companies have been hacked and their data hijacked by ransomware. The big promise to restore the data from the backup and thus be resistant to any attempt at blackmail is then broken again. The numbers speak for themselves, and… [Continue Reading]