2023-07-03 12:54:20
The rise of telework, the acceleration of digitalization and the advent of AI have already disrupted data storage systems in companies. Focus on these trends.
The rise of telework and the acceleration of the digitization of companies have unfortunately allowed the establishment of a context conducive to cyber-maliciousness. Companies are more than ever faced with the challenge of providing secure access to a multitude of services and applications while protecting once morest increasingly sophisticated threats.
Adapting more quickly and simultaneously to evolving technologies is therefore crucial to avoid data theft and disclosure to unauthorized third parties.
Impact of working from home: the importance of protecting your critical digital resources
Among the fundamental changes brought regarding by the health crisis, we find the generalization of telework. This change of context has modified the existing relationships and tools between companies and employees.
In this regard, the rise of teleworking has many advantages for employees who can benefit from it: time saving, reduction of fatigue and transport-related constraints, balance between personal and professional life, etc. It also offers interesting benefits to companies, such as an increase in productivity, or a reduction in the costs associated with physical offices.
However, teleworking has also profoundly changed the IT tools needed by companies, creating new technological challenges and digital threats. This paradigm shift represents a real boon for cybercriminals, who have taken advantage of it to multiply their attacks, with companies increasingly diverse in terms of size and activity in their sights. The need to deploy many additional tools, such as remote access, videoconferenceor instant communication, make the protection of critical data ever more complex.
In particular, there are many risks associated with the management and sharing of files, elements necessary for the operation of each company, but which are also very often targeted by cyberattacks, in particular of the ransomware type.
Many companies are even now having to set up “Bug Bounty” programs, where hackers and security researchers can share vulnerabilities with software developers in exchange for financial compensation. This constant waltz between vulnerabilities, patches and updates greatly complicates the task for system administrators, and highlights the need to rethink their storage solutions.
The predictive approach: the future of storage
While they can reach astronomical sums, spending on storage remains mainly reactive: companies often wait until the last moment to increase their storage capacity.
This strategy is not the most optimal, especially when taking into account the meteoric increase in storage needs. A trend accentuated by telework, which increased the total data generated from 41 zettabytes in 2019 to 64.2 zettabytes in the post-Covid era (IDC study).
Prediction is therefore a crucial step in the way of managing your storage, and therefore of conducting your business. Artificial intelligence will of course have a major role to play in this field: for example, being able to monitor an entire fleet of NAS or servers and related uses, to anticipate changes in capacity on an ongoing basis. AI will also recognize and identify key markers of a cyber threat and block attacks preemptively.
If storage has long been an area overlooked by IT managers, it has become – with the rise of the quantity of data and cyberattacks – a cornerstone of the sustainability of the business. With the integration of artificial intelligence, which is already beginning to disrupt many parts of the economy, it is a safe bet that storage will become more and more important in IT decisions, company-wide.
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