Fear of cyberattacks continues to be top of mind for CIOs, IT decision makers and practitioners worldwide. McKinsey projects the global damage from cyberattacks to reach $10.5 trillion in 2025 alone. Ransomware has been around for a long time, and so has the technology to contain and mitigate it, but despite these ongoing efforts, cyberattacks continue to wreak havoc, which exposes the fact that enforcing cyber resilience continues to be a daunting problem that most today are ill-equipped to address. The question is why.
End-to-end cyber resilience is no easy feat, as there’s a wide range of components that need to be integrated for it to work. At the infrastructure level, hardening measures need to be set up to prevent bad actors from infiltrating systems, security and networking policies need to be constantly monitored and adjusted as applications are created, moved or deleted, and remediation of compliance drifts needs to be done quickly and non-disruptively.
When it comes to lateral security, IT teams lack visibility into network traffic and conversations, struggle with manual triage of thousands of daily alerts, and remain exposed to zero-day threats as cyberattackers design sophisticated new attack vectors.
The last line of defense, cyber recovery, is a crucial piece of cyber resilience that remains widely overlooked. Many continue to act under the misconception that cyber and disaster recovery are the same thing and believe that their immutable, air-gapped backups will be enough to help them recover if their data gets encrypted. Let’s unpack this.
Though disaster recovery is foundational to cyber recovery, the latter presents its own unique challenges and requires a unique set of capabilities that span across selection and validation of restore points, isolated recovery infrastructure, network isolation for workloads in testing to prevent lateral movement, and full automation of this step-by-step by step iterative process.
The process to integrate these core pieces, along with all the others needed for security and infrastructure hardening is a non-trivial process and poses a huge challenge for organizations today—which explains why cyber resilience continues to be the elephant in the room.
VMware Cloud Foundation is uniquely designed to enable end-to-end cyber resilience and brings together all of these components into a cohesive, unified platform. This is a top area of focus for us, and we are continuing to invest to deliver cutting-edge technology to our customers that allows them to prevent, detect, withstand and recover from cyberattacks and other disasters.
Our latest innovations in cyber resilience are focused on operational simplicity, unified protection across VCF sites on-premises and in the cloud, and accelerated recovery. Dive in by watching our video!
Are you worried about your organization’s existing approach to cyber resilience? Do any of these challenges resonate with you? Come talk to us, reach out to your VMware Sales Representative or preferred Partner. We are committed to helping you deliver successful outcomes for your organization through platform-based cyber resilience with best-of-breed technology.
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