Understanding the Key Elements of an IT Issue Prevention Solution
Photo by Glenn Carstens-Peters on Unsplash We live in a data driven world, the volume and value of which continues to steadily rise. It’s now measured in zettabytes—that’s a one with twenty-one zeros after it—and valued in the trillions of dollars every year. The average data breach costs over three million dollars and can take months or even years to detect, resulting in a loss of reputation and trust that is incalculable. Another risk is ransomware attacks, which deny you access to your data. This type of attack has seen a dramatic increase recently. In 2020, over three hundred million of these attacks cost businesses worldwide around twenty billion dollars. For many types of organizations these days the combination of their human capital and data are the most valuable, sometimes even the only real, assets a company has. Protection of and access to that data within their organization is paramount not only to their success, but their very survival. These growing, real threats cannot