- Cyber Resilience
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- FAQs
What is
cyber resilience?
The concept of cyber resilience pertains to how well an organization can promptly detect, react to, and bounce back from an IT security incident. Establishing cyber resilience involves developing a plan that prioritizes risks and acknowledges the likelihood of the business encountering a breach or an attack at some point.
What are the key components of cyber resilience?
In order to achieve cyber resilience, a proactive and comprehensive approach to cybersecurity is necessary. This involves integrating technology, processes, and people to safeguard critical infrastructure and maintain uninterrupted business operations. Some of the key components are listed below.
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Risk assessment
Analyzing and evaluating potential cyberthreats that could impact the organization's systems, data, and operations.
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Incident response planning
Developing plans and processes for responding to cyber incidents, including incident detection, containment, and recovery.
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Security awareness training
Educating employees on cyberthreats, cybersecurity best practices, and the importance of their role in maintaining a secure environment.
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Backup and recovery
Ensuring systems and data can be restored in case of an attack or system failure. It is important to implement regular processes and strategies for data backup.
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Continuous monitoring
Utilizing tools and systems to monitor for potential cyberthreats and vulnerabilities.
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Testing and exercising
Simulating cyberattack scenarios to assess the efficiency of cyber resilience strategies and incident response plans on a regular basis.
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Collaboration and information sharing
Enhancing collective cyber resilience by forming partnerships and exchanging information with other organizations and industry groups.
Why is cyber resilience important?
It is considered best practice to plan for various cyber risks in order to achieve cyber resilience. This involves preparing for, responding to, and recovering from cyber events efficiently. By being cyber resilient, businesses can maintain their operations with minimal interruptions to their workflow and processes.
A strong evaluation of the cyber hazards that a business is expected to encounter forms the foundation of a cyber resilience strategy. Such risks comprise internal threats stemming from individuals within the organization, as well as external vulnerabilities like data breaches and ransomware attacks.
What is the difference between cyber resilience and cybersecurity?
In brief, cybersecurity encompasses a company's capacity to defend against and prevent the growing menace of cybercrime. On the other hand, cyber resilience pertains to a company's capability to reduce harm (including damage to systems, processes, and reputation) and continue functioning even after systems or data have been compromised. Cyber resilience encompasses external threats like hackers and ransomware, as well as internal threats such as accidental deletion.
A way to perceive the distinction is that cyber resilience acknowledges the reality that no cybersecurity solution is flawless or can guard against all forms of cyberthreats. Hence, both aspects are necessary for every company. A cybersecurity strategy aims to reduce the likelihood of successful attacks. However, in cases where attacks occur, a cyber resilience strategy is in place to minimize the consequences.
What is cyber legislation and why is it important for achieving cyber resilience?
In brief, cybersecurity encompasses a company's capacity to defend against and prevent the growing menace of cybercrime. On the other hand, cyber resilience pertains to a company's capability to reduce harm (including damage to systems, processes, and reputation) and continue functioning even after systems or data have been compromised. Cyber resilience encompasses external threats like hackers and ransomware, as well as internal threats such as accidental deletion.
A way to perceive the distinction is that cyber resilience acknowledges the reality that no cybersecurity solution is flawless or can guard against all forms of cyberthreats. Hence, both aspects are necessary for every company. A cybersecurity strategy aims to reduce the likelihood of successful attacks. However, in cases where attacks occur, a cyber resilience strategy is in place to minimize the consequences.
Framework
A cyber resilience framework is a methodical way of handling and reducing the consequences of cyberthreats within an organization. It establishes a structure for creating strategies, policies, and procedures that improve an organization's capacity to endure and bounce back from cyberattacks. Generally, the framework comprises five critical elements.
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Identify
This involves understanding the organization's cyber risk profile, including the assets, systems, and processes that are critical to its operations. It also involves identifying potential cyberthreats and vulnerabilities.
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Protect
This component focuses on implementing security measures to prevent or reduce the impact of cyberattacks. This may include implementing firewalls, encryption, access controls, and other security controls.
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Detect
This component involves implementing mechanisms to detect and monitor cyberthreats and incidents. This may include implementing intrusion detection systems, log monitoring, and security event management tools.
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Respond
This component focuses on developing and implementing an effective response plan to address cyber incidents. This may include incident response procedures, communication plans, and coordination with law enforcement and other relevant parties.
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Recover
This component involves developing strategies and plans to recover from cyber incidents. This may include data backup and recovery plans, business continuity plans, and post-incident analysis.
A cyber resilience framework provides a systematic and holistic approach to managing cyber risks and ensuring an organization's ability to continue operations despite cyberthreats. It helps organizations to be proactive in identifying and mitigating potential vulnerabilities and to be better prepared to respond to and recover from cyber incidents.
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Why choose RecoveryManager Plus?
RecoveryManager Plus offers many features that make it a must-have for organizations of all sizes.
Incremental backups
RecoveryManager Plus allows organizations to back up only the changes made since the last backup, thereby reducing the time taken to complete each backup cycle. This also ensures that there is minimal data transmission during the backup process, which does not affect the work of end users.
Multiple restoration types
RecoveryManager Plus allows organizations to restore the entire application, a small part of it, or even just a single object or mail item, depending on their needs. This allows administrators to leverage RecoveryManager Plus to handle data loss in all scenarios, such as natural disasters, ransomware, accidental deletion, and more, with ease.
Comprehensive application backup
RecoveryManager Plus allows organizations to back up multiple on-premises and cloud applications such as AD, Azure AD, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and on-premises Exchange from a single console. This allows administrators to manage backups and perform restorations for all of these applications from a single window, simplifying the restoration process.
Customizable retention period
RecoveryManager Plus allows organizations to configure different retention periods for different backup schedules, making it easier for organizations to comply with industry regulations.
Custom backup storage
RecoveryManager Plus allows organizations to store the backups of their enterprise applications either on-premises in NAS or in the cloud in Azure Blob Storage and Azure file shares, depending on their needs. This ensures that there is always a copy of their backup data in an off-site location.
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FAQs
What is an enterprise backup strategy?
An enterprise backup strategy is a plan for backing up and restoring all the data in an organization. It includes the following steps:
- Identifying the data that has to be backed up.
- Classifying the data based on their criticality.
- Identifying where the backups should be stored.
- Determining the backup storage mediums.
- Determining the frequency at which the backups have to be taken.
- Periodically testing the backups.
Why is an effective backup strategy important for an enterprise?
The average cost of a ransomware attack, excluding the ransom paid, is USD 4.54 million*. With the number of attacks and monetary loss due to an attack increasing every year, organizations should prioritize having a backup and disaster recovery strategy.
How often should I back up my enterprise data?
The frequency of your backup depends on the kind of data that is being backed up and their criticality to your organization. Organizations need to classify their data based on criticality and ensure mission-critical data is backed up regularly. Defining a recovery point objective (RPO) for each category of data is paramount, and the disaster recovery plan should be devised based on the RPO.
What types of data should be included in the enterprise backup strategy?
Any data that is important to the functioning of the organization should be backed up.
Should I use on-premises or cloud-based backup solutions for my enterprise?
Organizations should follow the 3-2-1 backup policy for their disaster recovery strategy. According to the 3-2-1 backup principle, organizations should always have three copies of data: one copy of live data and two backup copies, with two copies being in different media, and one backup copy stored in an offsite location. This principle provides organizations the best protection against any possible disaster.
How do I determine the optimal retention period for my enterprise backups?
The optimal retention period depends on the following factors.
- Type of data being backed up: Certain categories of data such as financial transactions, legal documents, and others require a longer retention period while other categories such as mails and internal communications require a shorter retention period.
- Regulatory requirements: The retention period varies based on the compliance requirements your organization must adhere to.
- Budget: Retaining data for a longer duration is a costly affair, especially if there are multiple copies of data stored in different locations. The retention period has to be calculated based on the amount of data that is being retained and your budget.
What are the best practices for testing and validating backups in an enterprise environment?
Having a backup that doesn't work when you need it is equal to having to having no backups. It is imperative that your organization's disaster recovery plan also includes periodic testing of backups to ensure you can safely recover your data when a disaster strikes. Organizations should follow the following steps to test and validate backups:
- Test backups regularly: Periodically restore from your backups in a test environment to ensure the backups are in optimal working condition.
- Backup integrity check: Ensure backups are stored in an immutable storage. An immutable storage is a type of storage which cannot be modified or deleted once it has been written on. This ensures your backups remain untampered.
- Test different restore methods: If your organization follows the 3-2-1 backup principle, periodically check if you can restore all data from each backup source.
- Document the results of your tests: Keep track of all tests to identify issues with your disaster recovery strategy and modify your backup strategy or vendor as necessary.