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The time taken to get back up and running following a cyber attack is a key factor in an organisations’ operational resilience, business continuity and reputation. Organisations must have the tools in place to quickly detect and report an attack, initiate an incident response plan and recover data from verified points of restore, or risk being caught unaware by a cyber attack.
However, this can be easier said than done, particularly for SMBs, who may not have the internal resources adequately protect themselves. In fact, more than half of all cyberattacks are committed against SMBs, and 60 percent of them go out of business within six months of falling victim to a data breach.
To avoid this, organisations must have a resilient storage system that protects critical workloads. They must have immutable copies of data that cannot be deleted or tampered with. And they must continuously monitor their environments to detect anomalies.
This webinar with Computing, Arrow and IBM, featuring bespoke research, will explore how organisations can achieve the gold standard of operational resilience and defend themselves against inevitable attack attempts. It will explore organisations’ current operational resilience and the steps they can take to keep their Recovery Time Objective to a minimum. Finally, it will explore why traditional data protection and backups no longer offer adequate defence, and why immutability is so important.
Editor at Computing
Tom is the Editor for Computing, where he has been covering the UK IT market since 2017. He is an industry veteran, writing his first tech story back in the mists of 2011, and specialises in covering topics around sustainable IT, diversity and Web3 developments like blockchain and the metaverse.
Tom regularly chats to leading IT professionals around the world, from companies both large and small, keeping a finger on the pulse of the technology space. He is always on the lookout for the newest market trends that affect IT leaders in the UK and worldwide.
Tom has previously written for a variety of B2B titles, including those serving the jewellery, pet and funeral industries - and yes, he's heard all the jokes. Often spotted with a notebook, grumbling about the Oxford comma.
IBM Volume FlashSystem Leader, EMEA
An experienced storage professional with over 25 years in the industry and a rare blend of both technical and sales knowledge; having spent a decade as a Storage Architect before moving to vendor sales leadership.
Brought into IBM in 2010 to launch the Storwize line up in the UK. Spending time as an FLM running effective sales teams and responsible for the FlashSystem business in the UK before moving to an EMEA role. Successful focus on building the strongest volume business globally around entry-level Flash and taking market share.
A confident and dynamic presenter to all levels and mediums. Most recently built the successful IBM Test Drive program and was an instrumental player in the new Operational Resilience Bundle.
Prior to a decade in IBM, Martin led a team dedicated to managing the storage environment of a FTSE 100 financial services company, managing a multi-million budget and major projects including: a backup consolidation of over 1000 systems, storage virtualisation and multi-vendor management.