By Stefan Voss, VP of product Cove Data Protection
Efficiency Eats Gadgets for Breakfast
Everyone agrees that cyber resilience is important. We also agree that certain technologies are useful or even cool: immutable storage, anomaly detection, artificial intelligence (AI). But what the industry seems to overlook is the price solution providers have to pay to implement these technologies and get greater cyber resilience. 2025 will see an unprecedented focus on getting the benefits of greater cyber resilience, but without having to hire an army to achieve it. Why? The skills gap is more pronounced than ever.
Democratization of Cyber Resilience Features
While immutable copies and anomaly detection are very useful capabilities, solution providers spend too much time worrying about which data should be place in an immutable storage bucket, what retention they need to set etc. And they also spend way too much time monitoring anomalies not even sure the anomaly detection tool is even picking up the threats we need to know about. Often, anomaly detection is also singularly focused, meaning it focuses on one aspect of the problem, e.g. corruption of backup data, but it does not cover indicators of compromise on the backup infrastructure.
From Left to Right of Boom
Successful solution providers offer their end customers end to end cyber security solutions that range from managed detection & response (MDR) to incident response and data recovery. In 2025, we will see and increased focus on solutions that successfully integrate data protection with managed detection and response and other relevant technologies like vulnerability management and patching. Ideally, these come together in a single pane of glass and can be consumed as a co-managed offering.
