Step Up Your Cyber Disaster Recovery

A rising tide of cyberattacks means your agency needs to shore up its security measures.

Here’s how one agency enhanced their cybersecurity disaster prevention and recovery plan so they could bounce back quickly from an attack:

Imagine a federal agency awash in data. With applications scattered about in the cloud, IT leaders were struggling to put together an effective disaster recovery plan.

Challenge: Because the ownership of these applications was spread throughout the agency, the security teams didn’t know which systems were most important, which applications they needed to prioritize. They lacked a means to coordinate and orchestrate their backup and recovery efforts. On top of that, the agency had a lease renewal on their secondary data center coming up, and it was in an area that has been experiencing more frequent power outages due to an increase in natural disasters.

Solution: The agency implemented backup and recovery tools in a hybrid-cloud model, running elements on premises and also leveraging cloud for speed and scalability. The intelligent backup solution also helped to classify data based on operational relevance to ensure a rapid-response capability.

Outcome: IT can now leverage the cloud’s mass storage and computing capacity to accelerate recovery efforts, while intelligent backup ensures they’re addressing the most important needs first. As an added bonus, the on-demand recovery capability in the cloud gave the agency the ability to retire its second data center.

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