Jason Buffington .com

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Congratulations to Arctera and kudos for integrating identity protection into Backup Exec.

• According to CrowdStrike, 80% of all cyberattacks now use identity-based methods
• And Microsoft’s latest defense report tracked over 600 million identity attacks across its 2024 fiscal year.

Data may be the lifeblood of the organization, but Identity is the keys to the kingdom.

If you can get in, then you can do damage. Just as important, the same way that cyber remediation means unwinding or decrypting ones data; it also has to mean restoring your credentials to before the bad actor inserted their back doors or even just deleted your users. After all, if the users can’t get to the IT platforms that they rely on, it’s nearly as damaging as if the platforms themselves had been attacked (with far less effort by the bad guy).

Protecting your identities with the same recovery capabilities that you protect your data just makes sense.

Backup Exec has been bringing enterprise capabilities to midsized organizations for the more than two decades that I’ve been following them. To do that, they’ve maintained a philosophy that data protection should be simple enough for IT generalists, yet comprehensive enough to be relied on when your worst day happens.

Having a bad actor encumber your IT identities sounds like one of those worst days, so Backup Exec customers and partners ought to be excited and relieved with today’s news.