Data availability increasing level and security as a trend or a necessity

Companies have dramatically accelerated the pace of cloud migration and virtual collaboration solutions to ensure that new remote workers have access to the tools and information they need to stay safe and productive. This was and remains one of the key problems. It is important that the past allows you to learn some lessons, but whether they are enough so that in the future you will not have to make a decision spontaneously.

It cannot be argued that digital transformation is a completely risk-free enterprise. 73% of CIOs are more concerned about protecting their data from ransomware, and rightly so. From year to year, we only hear about an increase in the number of phishing attacks, malware attacks and ransomware attacks. Given the large number of people working remotely, as well as the recent high-profile successes of cybercriminals, these threats can be expected to intensify in 2021.

Public health needs to be especially vigilant in this regard, given the public outcry that any leaks of patient data lead to, especially as efforts to develop vaccines against COVID-19 are stepped up. With this in mind, cybercriminals are likely to target medical systems in order to obtain sensitive information and obtain a ransom for it. Clearly, the stakes in cybersecurity for medical research laboratories, large pharmaceutical and biotech companies are higher than ever.

Data protection is a shared responsibility

However, not all threats come from outside and are not always malicious. Since the start of the pandemic, the CIO has reported that the number of data failures has increased by 43%, and the number of human errors in information processing has increased by 40%. Such incidents are usually not intentional, but their impact can affect reputation, as well as operational and financial performance. There is no doubt that the popularity of the private cloud will continue to grow. In this regard, employees of the enterprise as a whole (and not just the IT department) need to be prepared to increase their responsibility for maintaining the integrity and security of their data. Of course, to provide this, the employer needs the necessary tools and training.