Why is disaster recovery important to enterprise data security
Disaster recovery refers to the establishment of two or more sets of IT systems with the same function in remote places, which can monitor the status and switch functions between each other. When one system stops working due to accidents (such as fire, earthquake, etc.), the operation can be switched to another system, so to ensure the continuity of the whole operation.
What is the relationship between disaster recovery and backup?
Disaster recovery is to ensure the normal operation of information system in case of disaster and help enterprises achieve the goal of business continuity. Backup is to deal with the problem of data loss caused by all kinds of reasons. Before the emergence of integrated disaster recovery and backup products, disaster recovery system and backup system were independent. The ultimate goal of disaster recovery and backup solutions is to help enterprises deal with human misoperation, software error and virus invasion, as well as hardware failure and natural disasters.
The purpose of disaster recovery is to ensure that the data and services are continuous, that is, when the system fails, it can still provide data and services to the network system normally, so that the system will not stop. On the other hand, backup is used to deal with logical errors in system data and historical data preservation. Therefore, today, when there are various fault-tolerant technologies, backup is still irreplaceable.
Disaster recovery is also essential for some key businesses. When the production system cannot work normally, the disaster recovery system can take over these businesses and continue to work normally, ensures the integrity of data and business continuity, and restores the normal operation of the business system in the shortest time to minimize the loss.
Why is disaster recovery important
How much is the loss to enterprises in the face of natural disasters?
A set of data of the financial industry shows that the loss suffered by the financial industry within two days of disaster shutdown is 50% of the daily turnover; If the information system cannot be restored within two weeks, 75% of the companies will stop business and 43% of the companies will no longer be able to start business; 60% of companies that do not implement disaster backup measures will go bankrupt within 2-3 years after the disaster.
Informatization can indeed help enterprises grow and transform, but except for natural disasters, ransomware should not to be sniffed at either. Ransomware poses an increasingly serious threat to thousands of organizations and enterprises around the world. Since 2016, there have been more than 4000 ransomware attacks in the United States every day. Due to covid-19, malicious e-mail increased by 600%. About 1 in every 6000 emails contains suspicious URLs, including ransomware. In 2021, the largest ransomware compensation paid by insurance companies was US $40 million, setting a world record. The average downtime experienced by the company after blackmail software attack is 21 days. In a survey of 1263 companies, 80% of victims who submitted ransom were attacked again soon, and 46% had access to their data, but most of them were damaged. In addition, 60% of respondents experienced a loss of revenue and 53% said their brand was damaged.
How can Vinchin Backup & Recovery help？
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