Advanced AI-powered data security with Cohesity DataHawk

Data protection and data security are related concepts, both essential components of a comprehensive data management strategy. 

Data protection involves safeguarding data from loss, theft, or corruption and includes preserving data integrity and availability. It also involves the ability to restore data to a usable form when needed. This encompasses processes such as backup and recovery, instant mass restore, data resilience for business continuity, continuous data protection, and long-term retention.

On the other hand, data security encompasses a broader scope and focuses on protecting all aspects of data to improve cyber resilience. Data security includes setting policies, procedures, processes, and technologies to prevent various risks and threats such as unauthorized access data breaches, cyber threats, and natural disasters. 

Ransomware protection encompasses traditional cybersecurity controls and helps ensure that backup data is safe and free from malware. It’s coupled with ransomware recovery so organizations can withstand and recover from attacks.  Ransomware recovery allows for the restoration of data after an attack. When an organization refuses to pay the ransom for decryption keys, organizations can restore data that it protected to help restart business processes and services.

Key to protecting against ransomware is the ability to both withstand and recover from attacks. Traditional cybersecurity solutions provide capabilities to help withstand ransomware attacks. These include detecting unusual activity, locking down access to servers and endpoints, and having effective malware detection. Working hand in hand with cyber security, data security and management provides organizations with cyber recovery capabilities.This recovery allows organizations to refuse ransom payments and recover any affected data. In addition, cyber recovery solutions have a unique view of all of an organization's critical data. This means recovery solutions can aid in thwarting ransomware attacks by detecting anomalies and threats in protected data and integrating with existing security operations and incident response. 

The challenge with ransomware is not if, but when. The best cybersecurity efforts can be undone with a simple user error, such as clicking an attachment in an email. So organizations must have reliable recovery capabilities if they don’t want to pay ransomware operatives and have significant disruptions to their business operations. Plus, in order to qualify for cyber insurance coverage, providers now require robust recovery capabilities.