Achieving True Data Resilience in 2025

Last issue, we shared some important 2025 predictions our executive staff had for 2025, mainly surrounding topics like AI, changing the attitude toward experiencing ransomware attacks, compliance regulation enforcement, and more. With these ideas in mind, let’s dive a bit deeper into these topics to make it a bit easier to plan for what's coming in 2025 and keep your organization at the cutting edge!

?? The Five Pillars of Data Resilience

Earlier this month, our CEO Anand Eswaran an sat down with theCUBE Research’s David Vellante ?to talk about the critical role data resilience plays in modern businesses. Specifically, he discussed the essential five pillars of data resilience — backup and recovery, portability, security, AI, and intelligence — all of which are the makings of a holistic and proactive approach to data protection. Cyber resilience is critical since breaches are inevitable, so organizations like yours need to be prepared to mitigate the impact and recover quickly when you do face an incident. This means that in order to be truly prepared in this day and age, you need a plan that helps mitigate data loss and business downtime in the event of a cyberattack.?

?? Keeping Up with Increased Compliance Regulation and Enforcement

This year, we’re expected to see an increase in the frequency and severity of cyberattacks, and because of that, new laws and regulations to improve cyber resilience standards. Specifically, we’ll see increased regulations around mandatory backup and recovery strategies that are specific to frequency, retention, and testing protocol. Plus, newer regulations like NIS2, HIPPA, and Australia’s Essential Eight from last year will start closing the grace period for organizations to become compliant and start hitting companies with noncompliance fines by the end of this year. Planning and forethought will go a long way with making sure you’re ready to handle compliance in 2025 — being proactive is key. Identify all potential IT risks that could affect your organization and assess and come up with a plan to address all vulnerabilities in your system. After going through the risk management process, it’s important to prioritize your risks, analyze them to develop a concrete strategy your staff can follow. Having a concrete incident response plan that all relevant staff are informed of and able to carry out is also essential and making sure you have visibility into your entire environment is invaluable for this process.

?? Ransomware is a Fact of Life

By now we’ve all heard this adage: It’s no longer a matter of if, but when you’ll face a cyberattack. This fact is unfortunately more relevant now than ever, and cybercriminals are evolving ransomware just as fast as we’re coming up with solutions to combat them. This year, look for more sophisticated tactics and techniques to compromise systems and attacks that target data integrity and exfiltration of sensitive information.

This means that this year, data resilience must include multi-layered detection that can identify multiple threats and therefore prevent hidden breaches. In addition to making sure you have the right solutions and plans in place to combat ransomware, it's also important to try and shift the blame-game attitude that is often taken when it comes to ransomware. Ransomware attacks are unfortunately a common occurrence nowadays, and placing an emphasis on blame will only end up pushing IT and security professionals out the door and widen the skill shortage gap. Leaders should understand that the organization is only as good as its planning, and this requires invested leadership and having compliance professionals guiding foundational cybersecurity initiatives.

?? Expand Your Knowledge

Earlier this month, Veeam CIO Nathan Kurtz sat down for a conversation with CIO.com on CIO Leadership Live! In this session, CIO.com and Nate discuss how to sustain collaboration in IT, reign in tech sprawl, transitioning to SaaS, and more.

VeeamON is our biggest event of the year, and an unbeatable opportunity to make connections, exchange best practices, strategies, and experiences with peers, grow your problem-solving network, sharpen your skills, and stay ahead of the trends that shape the future of data resilience. Early bird registration is available through the end of this month, so don’t delay and register now!

In the meantime, check out this chat Coveware Field CISO, Raymond Umerley , had with 美国卡内基梅隆大学 earlier this month! This session covers best practices for ransomware response, how to move beyond security and plan for resilience, and pitfalls to avoid in the planning and response process.

For a deeper dive into compliance, check out our next Industry Insights live session, "Through the Fog: Demystifying Regulatory Compliance Changes You Should Know" on Feb. 11! In this episode, we'll discuss the complexities that come with mandatory reporting, ways to streamline your incident response, and strengthen your defenses with common controls across platforms. Join us and chat live with our hosts, Leah Troscianecki , Edwin Weijdema , and Courtney Elder !

?? What are your plans for this year? Share your insights below! ??