Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Choosing different IT services is like choosing a car. Apparently, all cars have four wheels, an engine, and they can be driven. But in the end, differences are much bigger, and the final choice depends on many factors. Of course, we always take into account the price, but not only. First of all, the choice depends on the purpose and usability. After all, we will not take a sports car to drive on muddy forest roads. Personal preferences and habits also matter.

Cyber crime gets more advanced, and threat actors increasingly target backups with ransomware attacks. If an organization is left with erased or corrupted data and has no access to backup copies, there is no chance of recovery. This allows the attackers to demand ransom payments averaging at over 10 million dollars as of 2025. That is why your backup and disaster recovery strategy should be reliable and secure to keep your environments protected and guarantee business continuity.

Every IT stack may look tidy on a diagram. If so, then it’s tempting to assume everything works fine. And yet, systems rarely fail as a whole. Usually, it’s a part or functionality. For instance, anyone who ever untangled a broken workflow in GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or Azure DevOps, or a corrupted field in Jira, knows it too well. And that’s the quiet tension (“to fix one little thing”) inside every modern backup strategy.

Modern organizations often use GitLab as a core version control system (VCS), making it one of the most essential systems for DevOps. Given the critical nature of the data stored here, thorough evaluation of risks and implementing data protection best practices are a must. According to the Shared Responsibility Model, GitLab provides security for the underlying infrastructure, while the user’s duty is to keep data protected. More about GitLab’s Shared Responsibility Model.