• Data Backup IT Security Commentary Insight and analysis on the information technology space from industry thought leaders. • You Backed Up Your Data, but Can You Bring It Back? • Despite investing in backup solutions, organizations struggle with complex recovery processes. • Here are seven practices that strengthen backup and recovery. • September 1, 2025 By Ofer Regev, Faddom Data loss events are becoming increasingly expensive, frequent, and challenging to recover from. • While most IT teams have backup systems in place, having backups alone no longer guarantees resilience.Ransomware attacks, human error, and service interdependencies have turned the recovery process into a complex challenge.
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A 2025 article by Ofer Regev highlights that backup systems alone no longer guarantee resilience amid rising data‑loss costs-IBM reports the average breach cost hit $4.88 million in 2024. A Veeam study shows 49 % of companies fail to recover most servers after an incident, underscoring that backup storage is insufficient without effective restoration. The piece outlines seven practices to strengthen recovery: regular full‑scale testing, adopting a hybrid backup mix (on‑prem, cloud, offline), mapping application dependencies, and improving orchestration, documentation, and cross‑team coordination. These steps aim to bridge the gap between data protection and rapid, accurate service restoration.
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