Mind the Gap: Building a Comprehensive Data Resilience Strategy
Nowadays, all organizations face a constant challenge: Ensuring the resilience of their data amidst rapidly evolving threats and expanding data. Frequent testing and proactive identification of gaps in your data protection strategy is no longer optional; it’s essential. Overlooked data types, such as third-party or supply chain data and compliance-driven retention requirements, can introduce vulnerabilities with severe consequences if left unaddressed. This issue highlights the most commonly neglected areas to empower organizations to strengthen their defenses.
🚨 The Risk of Sprawl
Data growth is an inherent marker of healthy business growth, but managing a large amount of data that’s often irregular and constantly increasing can present a significant challenge when it comes to data protection. It’s essential to address this complexity and find a good strategy to manage it, since so many people — knowledge workers, business leaders, and customers alike — rely on that data. This means that any amount of downtime can result in significant financial loss, and the ability to recover all of your data in case of an incident is paramount.
A key part of securing an ever expanding and evolving environment is backing up all your data frequently and having a data protection plan in place to make sure all those backups are protected. Cybercriminals are acutely aware of the value of backups and target them to increase ransom leverage. Selecting the right data protection and recovery solution is critical to minimizing downtime, safeguarding reputation, and avoiding the escalating costs of ransomware.
⚠️ How Ransomware Attacks Operate
Ransomware attacks have crippled organizations of all sizes, including hospitals and government agencies. A large percentage of organizations are suffering ransomware attacks, 69% according to the 2025 Veeam Ransomware Trends and Proactive Strategies Report. However, preparation through training, real-world exercises, and reflecting on your response after a breach can make the difference between having a controlled incident or an ongoing crisis that significantly impacts your business.
Key insights from recent ransomware incidents include:
Chaos is normal in the early minutes of an incident, but strong crisis communication and clearly defined roles restore order faster.
Don’t assume early symptoms are isolated glitches — this could cost your containment window.
Most organizations don’t realize how interconnected their systems are until one attack takes all systems down at once.
Teams that have trained and tested their playbooks respond with clarity, and the first hour is when discipline matters most.
Gartner predicts that in 2025, 45% of organizations worldwide will experience attacks on their software supply chains*
⛓️💥 Protect your Supply Chain Data
As business ecosystems become more interconnected, third-party supply chains are increasingly exposed to ransomware attacks. Protecting supply chain data demands a holistic and proactive approach that addresses regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and emerging security regulations.
Best practices for supply chain cyber readiness include:
Embed security into your third-party contracts
Test third-party breach scenarios
Train your staff for cyberattacks involving trusted vendors
Maintain an up-to-date inventory of what data is shared with third parties
📰 Veeam News
We’re excited to announce that we’ve been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for the ninth year in a row, and as highest in Ability to Execute for the sixth consecutive year. Every minute, somewhere on the planet, a business is fighting off ransomware, dealing with cloud sprawl, or wondering how to harness AI safely. We’re dedicated to helping businesses like yours on this journey — and we’re grateful for all of you!
Gartner is also at the center of July’s Industry Insights episode! Watch the recording of Leah Troscianecki and Rick Vanover’s Industry Insights livestream for a practical, buyer-enablement-focused session on how to use Veeam’s 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ leadership as a catalyst for change within your organization.
Gartner is also taking over this month’s Tech Bites too! Watch this session with Rick and Emilee Tellez to see why Veeam has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, including the practical features, power moves, and clever configurations that make Veeam a top choice for IT admins everywhere.
*Source: Gartner Identifies Top Security and Risk Management Trends for 2022
Brilliant breakdown from Veeam on the often-overlooked corners of data resilience. The reminder that backups themselves are now prime targets is especially timely, it's no longer just about having backups, but ensuring they're unbreachable. We recently had the pleasure of co-hosting an event with Veeam, diving deeper into how compliance and resilience go hand-in-hand. If you missed it, there’s a recording available which is definitely worth a watch if you're looking to strengthen your data protection strategy from the ground up.
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3wVeeam Software very insightful and valuable information. Indeed, organizations still do not invest enough resources and efforts to implement a solid resilience strategy and protection of their critical data even though the evolving threats. They still rely on defensive controls regardless the boundaries are blurring and is almost impossible to protect all potential end points, detect breaches, or account for insider threats. More than ever organizations must prioritize resilience to be ready when cyber events happen and zero trust to minimize the impact radius.