Today, World Backup Day is more than just a reminder to backup data; it underscores the need for individuals and businesses to make comprehensive data protection, security and cyber resilience a top priority. Recent incidents, such as the cyberattack on Korean manufacturer Hite Jinro, demonstrate how downtime can cripple operations and cause significant financial losses.
When World Backup Day was first introduced in 2011, backups were often an afterthought – something businesses knew they needed but didn’t prioritise. It served primarily as an insurance policy against natural disasters and hardware failures rather than cybercrime, and businesses rarely considered testing recovery or protecting their backups.
As businesses face more sophisticated attacks, such as ransomware that targets backups directly through backup deletion and corruption, organisations must go beyond merely backing up data to implementing a data resilience strategy. This not only means protecting backups by ensuring they remain reliable and recoverable in the face of an attack, but also incorporating other aspects of resilience that backups rely on and interoperate with.
