Data protection and cyber recovery: A powerful defense strategy

Safeguarding data has shifted from a precaution to an absolute necessity due to the evolving threat landscape. Organizations often rely on a data protection strategy inclusive of data backup and recovery to help create a plan to preserve their business-critical data. While prevention is vital, acknowledging inevitable cyber incidents underscores the need for a robust cyber recovery strategy.

Cyber recovery encompasses measures to restore critical systems, data and operations in the event of a cyber attack or breach. It involves a proactive plan for remediation that includes backup and recovery systems, incident response, ongoing monitoring and testing. This comprehensive approach strengthens defenses and ensures swift recovery in the aftermath of an attack or data loss.

Prioritize data protection and cyber recovery to:

Protect against data loss due to cyber attacks, human error, hardware failures and natural disasters

Mitigate the impact of ransomware and cyber attacks by enabling timely recovery and minimizing downtime

Reduce financial risks such as regulatory fines, legal fees, remediation efforts and loss of revenue

Remain compliant with regulations such as GDPR, CCPA and HIPAA

Enhance your reputation and credibility in the eyes of customers and stakeholders

Experience a realistic data breach scenario to test your organization's preparedness. Are you ready? 

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No matter your organization's level of experience with data protection and cyber recovery, we can take you to the next level.

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Why WWT?

It's no longer as simple as backup and recovery, and it's no longer an "if" but "when" conversation. It's about business survival. 

Our data protection and cyber recovery expertise is comprehensive, spanning various OEM partnerships, solutions and initiatives aimed at efficiently managing and protecting critical data assets. We align data protection and cyber recovery behind a holistic cyber resilience strategy, ensuring your organization is equipped with the necessary tools and strategies to anticipate, withstand, recover and adapt in the event of an adverse cyber event. 

With our expertise and the testing and validation capabilities offered through our Advanced Technology Center, we can help you make the right technology decisions faster. 

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Cyber Recovery Experience

Cyber recovery is paramount in today's digital age, and organizations are adopting an assume breach posture to jumpstart their cyber resilience and recovery strategies to minimize the impact of future cyber attacks. One of the most proven and effective ways to get your company's journey started is to conduct in-person tabletop exercises.

Cyber Recovery Experience - Healthcare

Cyber recovery is paramount in today's digital age, and organizations are adopting an assume breach posture to jumpstart their cyber resilience and recovery strategies to minimize the impact of future cyber attacks. One of the most proven and effective ways to get your company's journey started is to conduct in-person tabletop exercises.

Data Protection Workshop

The goal of this workshop is to help customers catalog their current state for backup, recovery and archive; evaluate their options; and determine the best solution for their overall specific requirements. The WWT data protection practice understands the significant transformation that is associated with architecture for the modern and software-defined data center. WWT experts will assist you with modernizing your environment through on-premise automation, cloud data management, exploring how to protect mission critical workloads while simplifying management, and looking for ways to reduce overall operational spend.

Cyber Resilience Discovery Session

Cyber Resilience and Recovery Briefing

In this briefing, we will work with your key stakeholders to identify where your organization holds the most risk, board-level objectives and top concerns. Our experts will discuss how we help customers identify gaps in their cyber response strategy to deliver an optimized resilience posture.
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Data protection and cyber recovery case studies

Find out how we've helped organizations across industries with their data protection and cyber recovery strategies.

Enhancing the Security Posture of a Global Life Sciences Organization

A life sciences organization collaborated with World Wide Technology to find a solution that not only provided backup capabilities but also true cyber resilience.
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Federal Health Organization Tests New Dell Backup and Recovery Solution

See how WWT helped the organization test an innovative Dell solution in near real-time.
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Partner Case Study | Community College fortifies security with Cohesity FortKnox

Colleges have become popular targets for identity theft and ransomware attacks. To protect student information and keep operations running smoothly during disasters, a community college wanted a virtual air-gapped backup copy isolated from its network. The answer: Cohesity.
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Partner Case Study | Origin Property quickly and completely recovers from a ransomware attack with Cohesity

Thailand's Origin Property Public Company Limited had been relying on a legacy solution for data protection and recovery. Unfortunately, the existing software solution failed during a recent ransomware attack. By moving to Cohesity, Origin was able to protect and restore all of their customer and enterprise data within three hours and avoid paying the ransom demands.
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Data protection and cyber recovery partners

We partner with leading vendors to help organizations secure their data and protect the privacy and integrity of that data.

Rubrik

Rubrik offers on-premise and cloud based data management solutions to enable customers to leverage the cloud in a simplified way

Cohesity

Cohesity offers on-premise, cloud-based and hybrid cloud data management solutions to enable customers to address the complexity of multi-cloud architecture design.

Commvault

Commvault offers comprehensive security features for cloud data management. With advanced encryption, access controls, and compliance measures, organizations can securely manage and protect their data in the cloud. Commvault ensures data integrity and confidentiality, providing peace of mind for businesses in the digital age.

Dell Technologies

Dell develops servers, computer software, computer security and network security, as well as information security services.

Veeam

Veeam provides organizations with resiliency through a broad platform that provides data security, data recovery and data freedom for their hybrid cloud.

Veritas

Veritas is a multi-cloud data management company with over 80,000 customers who rely on us to ensure the protection, recoverability, and compliance of their data.

Data protection and cyber recovery insights

Discover perspectives on industry trends, recaps of noteworthy events and much more.

🎤 MicDrop - Rubrik CTF

The MicDrop Capture the Flag (CTF) event will highlight Rubrik Security Cloud's (RSC) key features, helping customers understand how RSC provides cyber resiliency for their organizations. Features highlighted include: ✅ Data Protection – Back up and recover files, databases, and VMs to ensure data availability and ransomware resilience. ✅ Data Threat Analytics – Leverage IOCs, YARA rules, and hashes to detect and analyze potential threats. ✅ Cyber Recovery – Utilize automated, network-isolated recovery methods to restore operations securely and perform forensic analysis. ✅ Data Security Posture – Identify and monitor sensitive data exposure to improve security and compliance. ✅ Ruby - Rubrik's new generative AI assistant, your on-demand RSC expert This hands-on experience will provide insight into how these tools work together to protect, detect, and recover from cyber threats by demonstrating their value in an engaging CTF format using a real-world ransomware scenario.
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May 15, 2025 • 10am

Commvault's New Directions and Announcements at SHIFT Event

Commvault's 'SHIFT' event unveiled a transformative approach to data protection, emphasizing continuous business resilience, AI-driven security and multicloud flexibility. Addressing cyber threats and compliance, the event highlighted the necessity of understanding business infrastructure for robust data management. Commvault's innovations promise to redefine the security landscape.
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•May 7, 2025

Doomsday Prep: How to Keep Your Business Alive During a Ransomware Attack

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•Apr 30, 2025

Thoughts on Breaking Glass (in Case of Emergency) for Backup Systems

In a world of escalating cyber threats, the "break glass" account emerges as a crucial lifeline, enabling emergency access to backup systems when standard authentication fails. This strategy ensures business continuity and data recovery, safeguarding against catastrophic losses even when Identity and Access Management systems are compromised.
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•Apr 16, 2025

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