Commissioned by OpenText
Published April 2024
Executive summary
The modern cyberthreat landscape, with ransomware one of its most pernicious features, has transformed a quiet backroom IT maintenance process into a critical boardroom topic. Backup has become a strategic investment area for business resilience and disaster recovery. This transformation drives the need to revisit and reevaluate backup strategies from a security perspective, delivering a top-to- bottom refresh that encompasses questions such as backup philosophy, approaches, tooling, and scalability.
This white paper examines the transformation of the importance of backup strategies, profiles the modern cyberthreat landscape, and presents an updated list of essential requirements to enable a backup approach with business resilience and disaster recovery at its core.
