TECH & AI

“ Recent major IT outages have shown just how dependent our economy has become on IT services . And with the trend towards centralisation of IT assets into substantially fewer , much larger data centre facilities , our IT eggs are in fewer baskets that need to be properly protected from a variety of threats – whether they be natural events , such as severe weather , major accidents , or malicious attacks .

“ Potential disasters can originate from the most unexpected source . Who would have predicted , for example , that a software update intended to enhance security could in fact result in outages of thousands of IT systems ?! This highlights the need to take a broad , multi-layered approach to risk management that considers not only the data centres themselves but also the IT Services and data that they host .

“ True IT Service resilience is a joint responsibility : government and data centre service providers need to take responsibility for assuring the resilience of the IT infrastructure . But the IT service owners making use of these facilities also need to assure they have conducted thorough IT service-level risk assessments and have mitigations and incident-response plans in place to deal with a broad variety of threats .”

HOW VERITAS TECHNOLOGIES KEEPS PEOPLE ’ S DATA SAFE