The Importance of Automated System Recovery: Insights Backed by the 2024 Cohesity Global Cyber Resilience Report

According to the 2024 Cohesity Global Cyber Resilience Report, an alarming 67% of organizations have experienced ransomware attacks in the past year. More troubling is the fact that many of these organizations struggle to recover efficiently after such incidents. Recovery delays can result in:

• Prolonged Downtime: Businesses can take anywhere from 1 to 3 days or more to fully recover operations, leading to financial losses and reputational damage.

• Data Loss: Inefficient recovery processes can lead to incomplete restoration, resulting in lost data that can be critical for operations.

• Increased Costs: The longer the downtime, the higher the cost. Accordingly the report estimates that downtime can cost enterprises thousands of dollars per minute.

This underscores the need for a robust, automated system recovery solution that can restore operations quickly and accurately, mitigating these risks.

Automated system recovery provides a streamlined, reliable, and efficient solution to these challenges. Here’s why automation is critical:

1. Speed and Efficiency

When recovery processes are automated recovery times can be reduced from hours or days to mere minutes. By leveraging tools that automate the restoration of systems, applications, and configurations, businesses can resume operations faster, minimizing the impact of downtime.

2. Accuracy and Consistency

Automation eliminates human error by following pre-defined recovery workflows. Each step of the recovery process is executed consistently, ensuring that systems are restored accurately every time.

3. Regular Testing and Validation

Cristie Software automated recovery solutions allow for regular testing without disrupting production systems. Consequently this ensures that your recovery plans are always up-to-date and ready for deployment. Cohesity’s reports emphasize the importance of frequent testing to maintain recovery readiness.

4. Scalability

As IT environments grow more complex, automated recovery solutions can scale to handle multiple systems simultaneously, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments. This ensures comprehensive protection regardless of infrastructure size.

5. Reduced Costs

By minimizing downtime and the resources needed for manual intervention, automated recovery reduces the overall cost of system recovery. Faster recovery means fewer losses and lower risk of compliance penalties.