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Four questions...
1. Can you recover from a ransomware attack?
Every data protection competitor in our space can make a copy of your data and get it offsite. That's the easy button. The real reason for data protection is to have the ability to recover your data. No matter where it is, no matter what it is, no matter where you want it to run.
How confident are you that you can restore your business operations if you are attacked?
How often do you test restores? What process is required? How confident are you in the success?
2. How quickly can you recover your environment?
Being able to recover your data and applications is one thing...doing it in a reasonable amount of time is another. If you are attacked, there is a high probability that your production infrastructure will be unavailable. Law enforcement or the cybersecurity insurer will "tape off" the crime scene and perform forensics. You will have to restore somewhere else.
Can you restore to an alternate infrastructure before your business suffers irreparable damage
How long can you be down?
Can your current solution help you do that?
3. Are you able to recover to an alternate DR facility, if required?
Some companies have a dedicated DR site that is solely relied on a cloud/MSP provider to support DR operations. Either way, in an attack event, you may need to adjust and restore to any or all options.
Can you do that today? What alternative infrastructures does your current solution support?
It is imperative that your organization has the flexibility to adapt and restore as quickly as possible. Are you comfortable that your DR protection solution allows you to have these critical options?
4. Can you orchestrate your recovery and test your ability to survive that event?
Having a plan and being able to test automate and orchestrate things, is crucial to success. Orchestration provides much more than a script, it helps automate mistakes that persist in the inability to regularly validate your DR plan and prove success is vital. When an event occurs, you need to be confident in your ability to recover.
What orchestration do you have in place today that allows you to automate and model lifetime incident recovery?
Are you able to test and prove the recovery of your production environments? How confident are you today? How confident are you in your organization's ability to get business back up and running?
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Veeam Sizers - How many "Veeams" do I need?
Veeam HOLs - Veeam "Hands on Labs"
Veeam Blogs and other stuff
NEW! VBR12.1 - December 5, 2023!!!
Veeam SureBackup - "Veeam SureBackup is a crucial component of the Veeam Backup & Replication solution, enabling organizations to automatically verify the recoverability of their backup and replica data by running isolated tests on virtual machines, ensuring data integrity and reliability in case of a disaster or data loss."
Veeam Recovery Orchestrator - "Mastering data recovery orchestration with Veeam is crucial for minimizing downtime, reducing data loss, ensuring compliance, and enhancing reliability."
Guide to Multi-Cloud Backup: Strategies, Benefits, & Solutions
Debunking the Myth: Why Your Kubernetes Apps Need Robust Backup Solutions
DR Temperatures ("Hot", "Warm", "Cold/Cloud", "Frozen")
Data Center Categories (Tiers 1 to 4)
>> Beyond the Breach - "Earlier this month, our own CTO, Danny Allan, sat down for an interview with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to discuss the ever-increasing threat of cyberattacks like ransomware and what organizations should be thinking about when protecting their business." <<
A global assessment should be the very first step of the cybersecurity enforcement project. For this purpose, we have developped the following assessment checklist to be used as a starting point. -- Assessment
Security Architectures
Technical Security Blueprints
https://www.veeam.com/security-blueprints.html - "Written in collaboration with Veeam’s Alliance Partners, our technical security blueprints* illustrate simple and predefined architecture implementation based on proven scenarios seen in the field."
Be sure to visit....
Veeam Architects Best Practices - Veeam Architects Site.
The Veeam Cookbook - Veeam Cookbook for Veeam Backup & Replication.
From the Architect - Documents, Tips And Resource Links For Veeam Users.