Data breaches affected 343.3 million people in the U.S. in 2023, according to the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center. That figure is a 72 percent increase over the all-time high marked in 2021, and the number is projected to climb. Most businesses are all too aware of their data vulnerabilities. A Hitachi Vantara study found 69 percent of IT decision-makers surveyed were concerned their organization couldn’t detect a breach in time to protect their data, and 22 percent admitted their critical data wasn’t backed up.
Additional factors can increase the risk of a data breach for you and your customers, including the growth of employees who work from home and overall shift to the cloud. Hybrid cloud data storage environments can be vulnerable if they aren’t meticulously tested.
Close the Loop to Prevent Cyberattacks
You and your customers need greater protection. One way to combat the growing risk of attack is to plan for a “closed loop” response. The closed loop process starts with a thorough security audit to reveal gaps in coverage and to assess and prioritize the protection of mission-critical data. The organization then uses that information to develop and strengthen its protection and readiness strategies to proactively mitigate data breaches and bolster detection capabilities and data recovery. The information is feed back into the loop, and the cycle continues to increase resiliency.
Hitachi Vantara is working to help customers protect against cyberattacks with its EverFlex Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS). Based on the Hitachi Vantara VSP One storage platform and integrated with EverFlex Storage as a Service, the DPaaS solution augments existing protections to ensure data is secure and can be recovered quickly no matter where it resides.
Data Protection at the Ready
Hitachi Vantara EverFlex DPaaS offers comprehensive data protection that allows businesses to maintain mission-critical business functions in the event of a cyberattack. The solution can be partially managed to fill resource gaps or fully managed to align with established service level agreements and can be monitored through a cloud and on-premises console view. DPaaS delivers near-zero backup windows and significantly reduces recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO).
Pre-architected or customized cloud-managed designs offer multiple classes of service to support varying levels of data protection, backup and restoration, and business needs. The pretested design enables the Hitachi Vantara DPaaS solution to be deployed quickly to your customers, minimizing complexity and eliminating the need to develop a customized solution in-house.
The pay-as-you-go consumption model reduces costs and improves budgeting. Monthly bills are based on the specific options selected and the amount of data protected within each class of service.
To protect against the ever-present threat of cyberattacks, businesses need to establish comprehensive readiness, detection, and response and recovery plans to close the loop. EverFlex DPaaS provides the pathway to risk mitigation.
Learn more about Hitachi Vantara EverFlex Data Protection as a Service.