Boosting Your Insureds’ Cyber Resilience With Data Backups
Many organizations pay ransoms because they lack functional backup systems. Here’s what you need to know to keep your insureds secure.
Backups are a critically important component to cyber incident response and recovery since properly implemented backups enable faster data restoration and mitigate the need for victims of ransomware to pay costly ransoms. In our recent Cyber Incident Response Masterclass, led by Joe Kingland at Blue Team Alpha, we learned about methods of securing data backups and best practices that your clients should be implementing today. This article summarizes the key points made by Joe, but to watch a full, on-demand recording of the IR Masterclass, click here.
3 Strategies To Enhance Protection of Data Backups
In any modern business, data sits at the heart of what it does. It is often central to privacy regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR and CCPA. With regulators becoming increasingly stringent with data back-up compliance requirements, now is the time to check in with your insureds and clients and to make sure they are updated on the industry standards.
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