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The recovery plans of many companies reveal glaring gaps. One comes to this conclusion IDC study commissioned by HPE subsidiary Zerto. The extent to which backups are “failing” companies when it comes to data protection is frightening, according to a key finding from “The State of Disaster Recovery and Cyber-Recovery 2024 – 2025”.
The results in detail: The more than 500 companies surveyed in the study reported an average of 4.2 data disruptions per year requiring an IT response, with an average of one ransomware attack and one internal attack occurring per year. Almost half of the companies affected by ransomware attacks paid a ransom despite having available backups in order to be able to restore the encrypted data more quickly. The fatal thing about it: 80 percent of the ransom payers were still unable to completely restore the encrypted data.
Recovery strategies with weaknesses
These numbers clearly show the weaknesses of many recovery strategies that rely exclusively on backups for data protection, according to a statement about the study. Such a backup-only strategy is risky and could have negative consequences. What is needed is a holistic approach to disaster and cyber recovery (DR and CR) that is based on backup and recovery, disaster recovery and cyber recovery and thus offers a higher level of data security.
