Research

Abstract:

From frequent attacks on critical systems to major data recovery issues and financial impacts, ransomware consequences refuse to be ignored.

See the data behind these trends and more with this ESG Infographic, 2022 Ransomware Landscape.

Abstract:

The ransomware threat is a top-of-mind issue for so many organizations; however, few feel totally prepared for an attack. Without an industry reference architecture or blueprint for ransomware protection, organizations are building their own strategies and processes to respond. But with ransomware protection included with so many different security and data protection solutions, many are confused about the scope of what is to be included, who is responsible for the implementation, and who needs to be involved in the conversation.

In order to connect the dots between those organizations that feel most prepared and the specific strategies and plans they are using to get there, with an eye on defining best practices, ESG surveyed 620 IT and cybersecurity professionals personally involved with the technology and processes associated with protecting against ransomware attacks at midmarket and enterprise organizations in North America and Western Europe.

For more information on this research, please visit www.esg-global.com/ransomware.

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Building on existing trends favoring digital transformation initiatives, the pandemic sparked a further shift toward data-centric business models, with virtually all enterprises now using data to support the business and a remarkable one in five claiming data as their core business. To treat data like the business asset it has become, it must be de-risked, protected, made compliant, and leveraged. This will require IT professionals and vendors alike to develop intelligent data management strategies that not only preserve and protect data but also ready it for use in achieving business growth objectives.

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Driven by data's rapid growth, the menace of cyber-threats and the enterprise push for digital transformation, among other factors, intelligent data management is fast becoming a priority for data protection and storage professionals. More than two-thirds rank it among their organizations' top five data protection and management priorities, a dramatic change from two years ago when only a third of organizations considered intelligent data management a top priority. Among digitally mature organizations, adoption is even higher, suggesting that interest in this approach will continue to grow as digital laggards achieve digital transformation maturity. One in five organizations believe intelligent data management will replace their overall data protection strategies. Learn why now is the time to shift to intelligent data management.

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Nearly 80% of organizations require data to be made compliant with external mandates or internal standards before it’s reused for non-production purposes. Most also sanitize such data, and increased confidence levels about passing compliance audits are especially pronounced among those that do. But many organizations don’t sanitize or apply compliance processes to all of their secondary data, and these partial approaches can limit the effectiveness of their de-risking efforts and leave them exposed to potential compliance issues.

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Data classification is becoming more pervasive in organizations, and efforts to reuse secondary data are improving. While data reuse generates a broad set of business benefits, it also creates some challenges both for IT departments and vendors that offer intelligent data management tools. But there's a strong correlation between successful data reuse and data classification, as well as other key elements of intelligent data management.

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With increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks on the rise, ensuring the recoverability of the deluge of data pouring into corporate environments is a concern for IT leaders. In addition to protecting endpoint devices, IT decision makers expect to make the most significant data protection investments in technologies that safeguard data and applications residing on public cloud infrastructures.

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End-users are striving to efficiently reuse data to advance digital transformation initiatives and gain a range of business benefits. But this adds data management challenges to an already complex IT infrastructure landscape.

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Intelligent data management solutions and use cases are transforming the traditional data protection and storage spaces. As end-users continue on their digital transformation journeys, the need to efficiently reuse compliant data is adding data management challenges to an already complex IT infrastructure landscape. At the same time, significant business benefits can be derived from successful intelligent data management implementations.

Abstract:

ESG conducted a comprehensive online survey of IT professionals from private- and public-sector organizations in North America (United States and Canada) between August 3, 2021 and August 14, 2021. To qualify for this survey, respondents were required to be IT professionals personally responsible for data protection and data management technology decisions for their organization.

This Complete Survey Results presentation focuses on the evolution of traditional data protection processes to more holistic data management strategies in which data is better understood and reused for other technical and business purposes.