Erecting an IT fortress: strategies for resilience

Erecting an IT fortress is an urgent need these days.

Facing the surge in cyber-attacks of these times, companies will need to adopt new strategies, procedures, and technologies to become more resilient to the onslaught of cybercrimes.

The pandemic has shown how vulnerable many organizations are to organized malicious actors. Meanwhile, the increasing weight of digital transformation has increased the number and the extent of disruption.

Indeed, being IT-resilient means keeping to a minimum any disruption and downtime and ensuring service continuity.

Looking for increased resilience, IT teams are re-evaluating their shortcomings and processes when building their organizations’ security infrastructure.

Approaches and strategies to increase IT security, such as cloud and automation, offer a wide range of options.

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Erecting an IT fortress: continuous availability

First of all, a resilient IT architecture’s main objective is an ‘always-on customer experience. Regardless of planned or unplanned changes in the infrastructure.

In brief, continuous availability keeps customers connected to their data and applications. Basically, this is having backup power or a generator for your IT.

Furthermore, continuous availability means that whatever happens, be it a cyberattack, flood, or planned outage, your work and network stay ‘on’ and protected against disruption.

Are backups enough?

They have been an important part of any IT strategy for years. Copying data and applications to store offsite allows recovery of data no matter what happens to the production environment.

You should know that there are backups and backups, however. Indeed nowadays, most backup technologies are out-of-dated.

For instance, many periodic backups only providing snapshots in time are not compatible with demands for recovery point objectives (RPOs) of seconds. Also, they do not work with recovery time objectives (RTOs) of minutes.

Multi-Cloud

Cloud technology would benefit IT resilience to a great extent.

Indeed, implementing a multi- and hybrid-cloud strategy enables businesses to accelerate operativity.

Other advantages include the freedom to choose your own cloud and the ability to move to, from, and between clouds.

Be wary, though. Choosing the right cloud system is critical. Each cloud service offers different services and features that may be better suited to specific applications.

Adopting a multi-cloud strategy assures the best performance levels, response time, and throughput for each application.

Finally, multi-cloud tech is convenient because it offers modularity to a great extent.

Conclusion: erecting an IT fortress

In conclusion, these elements will ensure your organization will likely withstand any disruption.

Combining these factors with good analytics would give organizations what they need to drive innovation and resilience in their IT infrastructure.

Do not forget, finally, that regular patching and keeping software up-to-date. As much as 60% of data breaches relate to failure to undergo these activities consistently.