Backup and DRAAS IT Buyer’s Guide
With hundreds of vendors available, how do you pick the best Backup and Disaster Recovery solution for your organization?
Download this Backup and DRaaS guide to get:
- Organized Planning Checklists (more than 30 detailed specifications!).
- Backup & DRaaS Features Explained.
- Full Understanding of Market-available Data Retention and Recovery Options.
- Detailed Product Comparison Chart Access.
Detecting and Mitigating Ransomware with Unitrends Unified BCDR
Data lives in more places than ever before and is constantly under attack. Ransomware remains one of the most pervasive cyberthreats today. According to Statista, the annual share of ransomware attacks experienced by organizations worldwide has been on the rise since 2018, peaking at a whopping 71% in 2022.1 In the first half of 2022 alone, there were a total of 236.1 million ransomware attacks globally.
Amid this ever-expanding threat landscape, traditional data security tools fail to defend against ransomware attacks 60% of the time. Ransomware’s success in overcoming traditional security mechanisms places backup and disaster recovery solutions among the most important aspects of any cyber resilience plan.
The Incident Response Planning Guide
Organizations across industries are rapidly adopting technology for smooth business operations. As technology advances, so do cybersecurity threats. With the average cost of a data breach pegged at $4.24 million per incident and cybersecurity experts forecasting an upturn in the quantity and quality of hacks, organizations will undoubtedly seek help to ensure they are prepared to battle this threat.
This eBook will answer the most pertinent IRP-related questions to empower IT pros to create an effective incident response plan and prepare organizations to face an unpredictable threat landscape.
The New Rules of Recovery
To keep pace with mounting competitive pressure in a 24×7 global economy, companies are forced to adapt or die. The onset of change has been rapid, with offerings, processes and operations digitized to varying degrees, all with the goal of growing the business. Many of the leaders who thrive today in an at times tumultuous landscape, have been successful in orchestrating these consistent improvements in pursuit of modernizing an ever-evolving tech stack.
More recently, IT professionals have been tasked with juggling the responsibilities of spinning up and empowering a geographically dispersed workforce with, at times, limited access to company facilities and resources. They are also being asked to maintain and secure existing assets, find new ways to boost revenue, and minimize costs in the face of forces from within and without.
6 key steps: what to do after a ransomware attack
Checklist
Ransomware attacks companies every 11 seconds.
The end result? Lost productivity, loss or exposure of sensitive data, loss of current revenue, and even the risk of future profitability.
But there is good news: by deploying a cloud-based backup and DRaaS, your organization can recover much more quickly from a ransomware attack—significantly reducing the impact of ransomware and protecting companies’ bottom lines.
Whether your company has been infected by a ransomware attack or you want to try to mitigate any potential risks in the future, you need to be prepared.
Take a look at this checklist explaining the key steps that need to be taken once ransomware hits.
Building an innovative cloud disaster recovery plan
Get best practices, examples and templates
White Paper
Cybersecurity Ventures predicts cybercrime damages will cost the world $6 trillion annually by 2021 and “will be more profitable than the global trade of all major illegal drugs combined.” In such a climate, an attack is not a matter of if, but when.
Business continuity and disaster recovery go hand-in-hand, so it’s essential that IT teams are prepared for when the worst strikes.
However, not all DR plans are created equal. Only 22% of businesses have high confidence in their disaster recovery plan.
Download our white paper to design an effective recovery plan and learn:
- Our 4-step sample disaster recovery plan
- Best practices for business continuity planning and disaster recovery
- Emerging methods for implementing a strong DR plan and strategy
- The advantages of DRaaS in the cloud
Grab your IT disaster recovery plan template today.
Infographic: Accelerating Automation: How Businesses are Adapting to a Post COVID-19 World
The majority of business leaders say they have made business process automation a top priority in recent years. But now, 80% of business leaders say they face new challenges as a direct result of COVID-19. Organizations overwhelmingly agree that business process automation is crucial in a post-COVID world—but it won’t be easy. Businesses will have to invest in technologies that scale with the business, standardize strategies for continual process improvement, allow citizen developers to drive automation efforts, and most importantly, embrace change. Download this infographic to learn more about how K2, a leader in intelligent process automation, can help.
Whitepaper: Accelerating Automation: How Businesses are Adapting to a Post COVID-19 World
Business process automation is challenging at the baseline – and COVID-19 has made it feel nearly impossible. However, it is more important now than ever.
Organizations overwhelmingly agree that business process automation must be embraced to address new, immediate business realities as well as to ensure long-term survival. This is not an easy road. Those who are most effective at overcoming barriers and rallying their teams to embrace change will be well- poised to win in the future.
COVID-19 Just Accelerated Your Road to Automation
This webinar focuses on how COVID-19 has accelerated your road to automation, and how you can use K2 tools to not only patch the gap, but rapidly automate solutions across your enterprise. Learn tips to implement your automation strategy and become adept at adapting to crises with speed and agility. This discussion also explores how COVID-19 broke organization's processes, but more importantly how COVID-19 has created a new "business as usual".
COVID-19 Remote Work Just Broke Your Processes: Here’s What To Do About It
Automating business processes to win, serve, and retain customers has been an imperative for years. With COVID-19 sending workers home to work en masse, the goal for many has become restoring manual processes that have either failed completely or been crippled. Read this report to learn how to mitigate the current business disruptions and set a foundation for faster, more agile process automation going forward.
COVID-19 > Network Change > Misconfiguration > RISK
Even in normal times misconfigurations are a huge problem.
Well before the pandemic, Gartner forecasted that 99% of all firewall breaches through 2023 would be caused by security misconfigurations.
Now, at a time when you are being flooded with new access requests, along with all the configuration complications they introduce – mistakes will happen.
Don’t be a statistic
Download the infographic today to learn how to avoid becoming the next headline.
Hiring and Recruiting in a Crisis The Lessons of Covid-19: Online Recruitment and Post-Crisis Planning
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented upheaval across the board. Everything from the simplest task (grabbing a cup at your favorite coffee shop), to complex decisions (how and when should your company adapt new hiring strategies), has become a challenge. And many of those challenges can’t easily be overcome.
In this eBook, we cover the range of online recruitment strategies, like virtual open houses, job fairs and video recruiting, that are available today. Additionally, we walk you through some of the more difficult decisions (like layoffs and furloughs) you may have to make during a crisis. We also talk about what HR and recruiting will look like post-pandemic, and what you should do to prepare for recruiting that may never look the same.
Hiring and Recruiting in a Crisis The Lessons of Covid-19: Urgent Hiring
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented upheaval across the board. Everything from the simplest task (grabbing a cup at your favorite coffee shop), to complex decisions (how and when should your company adapt new hiring strategies), has become a challenge. And many of those challenges can’t easily be overcome.
In this eBook, recruiters and staffing professionals share their strategies for quickly hiring and onboarding healthcare and other urgently needed front line workers, despite a national shutdown and a looming worker shortage. Many of these strategies remain as permanent parts of their hiring plans.
Hiring and Recruiting in a Crisis The Lessons of Covid-19: Crisis Management
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented upheaval across the board. Everything from the simplest task (grabbing a cup at your favorite coffee shop), to complex decisions (how and when should your company adapt new hiring strategies), has become a challenge. And many of those challenges can’t easily be overcome.
In this eBook, we see how companies initially responded to the COVID-19 crisis and the lessons learned. From travel bans, to quarantines, to the sudden need to adjust policies (like work from home), many things changed both temporarily and permanently. We also delve into what companies did to protect their brands during this time and how these tactics are helping them build stronger reputations going forward. Lastly, we offer support to managers striving to emerge as strong leaders, as they help their teams navigate difficult circumstances.
Coronavirus on Campus: 7 Ways to Use Your CMS as a Super Tool for Crisis Management
Is your college or university prepared to meet the challenges that come with disasters and emergencies?
As if wildfires, polar vortexes, tornadoes, and hurricanes weren’t enough to disrupt business as usual, the world is now grappling with COVID-19, or Coronavirus. No doubt your college or university has developed a crisis plan of some sort, but there’s no better time than now to make sure you have the tools in place to help your campus stay safe. Remember, knowledge is power and in many cases, it can be a lifesaver.
Delve into the ways a powerful, flexible, and scalable CMS can help you disseminate messaging, update your audience, educate students and faculty about crisis concerns, and keep them safe.
Knowing that our team at OmniUpdate can be just as affected by potential threats, we put together this white paper to explain how you can better leverage your content management system (CMS) as a super tool to wield when dealing with the pending disaster and aftermath of campus crises.
In this white paper, you'll learn how to:
- Implement the three Bs of crisis planning.
- Craft messaging that is helpful, empathetic, and direct.
- Develop a microsite or designated web pages for crisis management.
- Deploy Emergency Alerts that advertise ways to learn more.
- Use email and social media to disseminate information.
- Leverage the cloud for your website and CMS.