"Outdated Infrastructure Not up to Today's Ransomware Challenges"

According to a global survey commissioned by Cohesity, nearly half of respondents say their organization relies on outdated, legacy backup and recovery infrastructure to manage and protect their data. This technology, in some cases, is more than 20 years old and was designed long before today's multi-cloud era and the emergence of sophisticated cyberattacks troubling enterprises worldwide. According to Cohesity, the challenges associated with outdated infrastructure may be exacerbated by the fact that many IT and security teams do not appear to have a plan to mobilize if and when a cyberattack happens. Almost 60 percent of respondents expressed some concern about their IT and security teams' ability to mobilize quickly in response to the attack. Of the respondents, 46 percent said their organization relies on primary backup and recovery infrastructure designed in or before 2010. Nearly 100 respondents (94 out of 111) revealed that their organization still relies on backup and recovery infrastructure built in the 1990s. Respondents identified the biggest obstacles they believe will prevent their organization from resuming operations following a successful ransomware attack, which include integration between IT and security systems, lack of coordination between IT and security, lack of an automated disaster recovery system, antiquated backup and recovery systems, and more. They expressed that modernizing data management, protection, and recovery capabilities, as well as increasing collaboration between IT and SecOps, provides a path to improving their organizations' security postures and multi-cloud operations. This article continues to discuss key findings from Cohesity's survey of IT and SecOps professionals. 

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