Disaster Recovery, Risk Management

IT-DR Trends to Concern Business Resiliency Leaders

Jason Buffington | November 19, 2024

For the last several years, the Data Protection Trends Report has published the unbiased sentiments of IT leaders who were responsible for the backup and (IT) disaster recovery strategies for their organizations. The 2024 report surveyed 1,200 enterprises with some unsettling insights for senior leaders responsible for the business continuity or crisis management of their organizations – especially for C-level executives who may have delegated key aspects of their BC/CM or business resiliency strategies to their IT leaders. What is causing IT outages? Ransomware? Absolutely, but the survey data reveals if organizations have overly conflated their cyber-preparedness with their IT-DR…
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