Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery is hardly a new concept, but its role and functions within a business continuity plan have certainly evolved as data usage has multiplied and more organizations have migrated their operations to the cloud. Cloud disaster recovery is now the logical choice for businesses that host their data and workloads in the cloud.

Audit logs are a vital tool in any security team’s toolbox. They help track and monitor user activity across applications, systems, and networks. Not only do they help identify suspicious activity, like a user accessing a privileged system they don’t have access to, but also are a key piece in forensically looking at the history and timelines of an event to determine everything that happened.

Without a robust disaster recovery plan in place, an event like a ransomware attack can leave a business vulnerable to catastrophic data loss and disruption to operations, which may result in revenue loss, damage to reputation, and even potential legal liabilities down the road.

Disaster recovery refers to the process of recovering and restoring mission-critical data and applications during a disaster event. This process provides a way to recover and restore important data, ensures that a business’s core operations can continue to function, and aims to mitigate or avoid downtime that would disrupt internal processes and affect end users until a full recovery is completed.