Natural disasters are a huge threat to business operations. A lightning strike, hurricane, tornado, or flood can cause great damage and bring business to a halt. That said, they’re not actively trying to victimize your business through ongoing attacks. In these instances, data resilience strategies ensure that data remains intact and accessible even in the event of hardware failures, accidental deletions, or natural disasters.
Compare that to a cyber threat. Threat actors never stop working and employing new tools to hold your data hostage and take your business down. Attack vectors are often multifaceted and evasive. And the risk of reinjecting vulnerabilities, compromised accounts, and other attack artifacts back into your environment is a pervasive threat. Compared with traditional business continuity and disaster recovery scenarios where the root cause is usually obvious, facing cyber adversaries requires investigation to discover these causes and drive remediations to prevent their recurrence. In addition, in a ransomware attack, the security infrastructure and key evidence may have been impacted by the incident, and impact the ability to deliver products and services.
