Agencies face growing pressure to modernize their data protection strategies while defending against sophisticated cyberthreats. Legacy backup tools often fall short, especially when ransomware ...

Tanya Candia is an international management expert, specializing for more than 25 years in information security strategy and communication for public- and private-sector organizations. Federal ...

Data recovery is the process of restoring data that has been lost, accidentally deleted, corrupted or made inaccessible. In enterprise IT, data recovery typically refers to restoring data to a desktop ...

CrashPlan, a leader in cyber-ready data resilience and governance, today announced backup and recovery for Windows and Linux servers and Google Workspace, built for small businesses. This extends ...

Brian T. Horowitz is a writer and editor covering enterprise IT, innovation and the intersection of technology and government. For William Mann, CISO of West Chester, Pa., a borough 25 miles west of ...

Ironing out recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) is crucial to balancing what stakeholders want and what it will cost to meet those expectations. When evaluating the ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. In state and local government, system backups are essential to ...

If your organization experienced unplanned downtime and had to recover, how long would it take? It's probably longer than you think. According to The State of Backup and Recovery Report 2025 by ...

The ransomware attack on IDCF Cloud that occurred on October 7, 2026. I have written two articles on this matter so far. In ...

Here’s a surprising take from a data resilience expert: Backups are useless. That is to say, backups are useless if you can’t efficiently and effectively recover from them. The reality is that backups ...

In today's digital world, data is the lifeblood of businesses. Losing it can lead to significant financial losses, operational disruptions, and damage to a company's reputation. To safeguard against ...

The massive outage that occurred in July via CrowdStrike and Microsoft has put a lot of IT teams on notice, with leaders thinking about “what’s next?” Krishna Prasad, CIO and Chief Strategy Officer at ...