{"id":23841,"date":"2019-01-31T09:25:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T09:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=23841"},"modified":"2019-02-06T08:21:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T08:21:31","slug":"dr-and-security-strategies-could-save-your-network-says-routed-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2019\/01\/31\/dr-and-security-strategies-could-save-your-network-says-routed-md\/","title":{"rendered":"DR and security strategies could save your network, says Routed MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Cruise, Managing Director, Routed, South Africa\u2019s only vendor neutral cloud infrastructure provider, says that disaster recovery (DR) and back-up solutions remain key to business strategies for 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Cruise adds that protecting on-premise and cloud-based data is critical if businesses are wanting the ability to recover all areas and avoid disasters, something he says did not fully resonate with businesses in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite growing interest, majority of local businesses are yet to fully understand the importance of DR and back-up,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Time needs to be spent reviewing what is in place, how and where it can expand and if using new technology will assist in ensuring better delivery in 2019.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cruise says that a new trend is to form closer ties between DR and security. While DR traditionally concerns itself with loss of data, applications, systems and locations, the rise of malware and external attacks across networks has placed increased focus on the recovery of these environments and in a secure state.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23843\" style=\"width: 843px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23843 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/01\/Andrew-Cruise-843x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"843\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/01\/Andrew-Cruise-843x1024.jpg 843w, https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/01\/Andrew-Cruise-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/01\/Andrew-Cruise-768x933.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Cruise, Managing Director at Routed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSolid DR strategies will meet compliance requirements, while also ensuring the recovery of data, specific endpoints and applications,\u201d said Cruise.<\/p>\n<p>With more moves into the cloud, businesses need to make a concerted effort to embrace DR and backup. Cruise says the reality of ownership of the data is key,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis remains the organisation\u2019s responsibility,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The onus is on them to find ways in which to protect cloud-based data, this includes using third-party vendors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As threats are on the increase, a cloud approach could further protect a network from attack, even act as another layer of defence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecovery could potentially be much quicker if the entire system is simply rebooted, as opposed to trying to resume services on the network which experienced the attack,\u201d said Cruise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Cruise, Managing Director, Routed, South Africa\u2019s only vendor neutral cloud infrastructure provider, says that disaster recovery (DR) and back-up solutions remain key to business strategies for 2019. Cruise adds that protecting on-premise and cloud-based data is critical if businesses are wanting the ability to recover all areas and avoid disasters, something he says did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":23842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4950,182,5,6,275,13,262],"tags":[5495,8155,22,58,7094,1717,453],"class_list":["post-23841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-cloud","category-enterprise-security","category-insights","category-intelligent-technology-newsletter","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-andrew-cruise","tag-back-up-solutions","tag-cloud","tag-disaster-recovery","tag-on-premise","tag-routed","tag-south-africa"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23844,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23841\/revisions\/23844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}