What do Kia Motors America (automaker), CD Projekt Red (gaming), Acer (computer manufacturer), DC Police Department (law enforcement), Colonial Pipeline (energy transport), Brenntag (chemical distributor), Ireland’s Health Service Executive (public healthcare), JBS (meat processor), Kaseya (IT services for MSPs) and Accenture (tech consultant) have in common?
They were all victims of ransomware attacks in 2021. It just goes to show that ransomware attacks are growing in scale and reach.
But it’s not just ransomware that is growing. Cybercrime and threats, on the whole, are rapidly increasing everywhere, putting data security front-and-centre as a top concern for businesses and government agencies.
IT administrators responsible for data protection are facing cyberattacks, ransomware and new and sophisticated threats that make it challenging to meet internal security mandates. With all the new threats that are being developed by malicious actors, no tool can guarantee protection.
Commvault claims that its Metallic Security IQ, an embedded optional feature across its Metallic portfolio of SaaS data protection solutions, presents a unified security dashboard that provides customers with quick and meaningful insights into threats impacting their data landscape and their data backup security posture in their Metallic cloud environments.
With Security IQ, Metallic customers get intuitive tools and advanced insights to bolster their data backup and recovery posture broadly across cloud applications, SaaS applications, endpoints, and hybrid cloud workloads.
The Security IQ dashboard empowers IT professionals and admins, to spot risks and vulnerabilities in real-time, limit their exposure to cyberthreats with zero-trust controls at scale, and make more informed data recovery decisions – from one central location.
“Organizations are demanding that their IT teams not only manage, protect, and govern data, but that they also deliver data security insights that help the organization’s overall security posture and recovery readiness. As a result, IT operations teams are being asked to provide more insights to security operations teams at an urgent pace,” said Manoj Nair, general manager, Metallic.
Security IQ, alongside Metallic’s zero-trust, enterprise-grade security approach, provides businesses of all sizes with advanced tools to protect data, detect threats, and recover from attack – helping reduce risks and deliver business continuity across their entire data estate.
“It’s the sad truth that too many companies hit by ransomware aren’t prepared. With our multi-layered approach to ransomware protection and secure separation of data from customers’ own environments, we help Metallic users to further identify threats as early as possible so they can recover quickly, minimizing their data loss risk,” continued Nair.
Gartner predicts that by 2025, 70% of CEOs will mandate a culture of organizational resilience to survive coincident threats from cybercrime, severe weather events, civil unrest and political instabilities.
