{"id":12733,"date":"2022-03-30T15:55:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T14:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/?p=12733"},"modified":"2022-04-06T15:48:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T14:48:11","slug":"cloudian-experts-says-1950s-approach-to-storing-data-must-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2022\/03\/30\/cloudian-experts-says-1950s-approach-to-storing-data-must-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudian experts says 1950&#8217;s approach to storing data must change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An industry expert from Cloudian says the Australian Government\u2019s 1950\u2019s approach to storage means its data is still vulnerable despite investing in cybersecurity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/12\/James-Wright-Director-ANZ-ASEAN-and-Oceania-Cloudian_1-w.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10683\" width=\"265\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/12\/James-Wright-Director-ANZ-ASEAN-and-Oceania-Cloudian_1-w.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2021\/12\/James-Wright-Director-ANZ-ASEAN-and-Oceania-Cloudian_1-w-300x289.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><figcaption><strong>James Wright, Director of A\/NZ, Oceania and ASEAN, Cloudian<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>James Wright, Director of A\/NZ, Oceania and ASEAN, Cloudian, says it\u2019s time to think more about data immutability and less about tape, creating unencryptable digital copies of data ready to redeploy into an organization in the event of an attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wright said: \u201cThe government \u2013 just like virtually all organizations across Australia \u2013 is spending more to bolster its cybersecurity defences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHowever, despite unprecedented investment in cyberdefence, business and policy decisions often fail to take sufficient actions to protect and ensure quick recovery of the prime target in cybercriminal activity: data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMuch of our most important data across enterprises and government alike remains backed up on outdated tape systems (if anywhere at all). This technology \u2013 invented in the early 1950s \u2013 can be unreliable, out-of-sync with the organization\u2019s own IT environment and take weeks or even months to restore data back into an organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe idea that a modern organization can survive this long without access to their data crown jewels is absurd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFortunately, more modern storage technologies can provide data immutability that keeps cybercriminals from encrypting, altering or deleting data and enabling fast, easy data recovery and resumption of operations in the event of a breach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An industry expert from Cloudian says the Australian Government\u2019s 1950\u2019s approach to storage means its data is still vulnerable despite investing in cybersecurity.&nbsp; James Wright, Director of A\/NZ, Oceania and ASEAN, Cloudian, says it\u2019s time to think more about data immutability and less about tape, creating unencryptable digital copies of data ready to redeploy into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":12734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,51,55,41,44,54],"tags":[76,2156,747,3180,699],"class_list":["post-12733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-verticals-government","category-intelligent-technology-newsletter","category-oceania","category-storage","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-australia","tag-cloudian","tag-government","tag-james-wright","tag-storage"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12733"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13078,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733\/revisions\/13078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}