Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In today's hyper-connected digital economy, uptime is critical, and while downtime is inconvenient, it also poses a threat to reputation, revenue, and customer trust.Enterprises are expected to deliver seamless, uninterrupted services around the clock. But while many organisations invest heavily in high availability (HA) infrastructure, they often overlook the equally critical need for disaster recovery (DR). Because ensuring your systems are available is different from ensuring they are recoverable.

The conventional formula for maintaining business continuity in the face of unexpected IT disruptions is as follows: Back up your data. Make a recovery plan. Test the recovery plan periodically. That approach may work well enough if your primary concern is defending against risks like server failures or data centre outages caused by natural disasters. But in the present age of widespread ransomware attacks, conventional backup and recovery planning aren't always enough.

All Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) providers do the same basic thing: They manage the recovery of data and applications following an outage or cyberattack. The growing frequency of cyber-attacks highlights the importance of these services. Cloudflare, for example, mitigated $6.9 million DDoS attacks in Q4 2024, a 16% increase quarter-over-quarter and an 83% rise year-over-year.