In 2023, the cost of cyberattacks like ransomware hit an average of $4.45 million per breach, highlighting the critical need for robust cybersecurity strategies.
As organizations increasingly depend on data as a vital asset, financial losses, operational disruptions, and reputational damage from breaches make it imperative to prioritize strengthening cyber defenses. While global spending on security is set to reach $215 billion in 2024, cybercriminals continue to exploit vulnerabilities, underscoring the need for more resilient approaches.
To address these challenges, Druva’s Cyber Resilience Maturity Model provides a practical framework for assessing readiness and advancing through five maturity levels. This model, built on Druva's extensive customer insights, helps organizations boost resilience, enhance data protection, and mitigate risks.
The Challenges of Achieving Cyber Resilience
Even with cybersecurity tools like XDR, SIEM, and SOAR, organizations struggle to detect and remediate threats in real time due to limited visibility into anomalous access or user activity on sensitive data and backups. The result is prolonged recovery, potential reinfections of backup data, and difficulty in investigations. To improve cyber resilience, businesses need a strong integration of perimeter-focused cybersecurity and data security. The most common challenges include:
Containing Scope, Streamlining Remediation, and Avoiding Reinfection: Isolating systems while maintaining operations and managing network interdependencies is challenging. Rapid identification and isolation are essential to prevent malware spread, yet limited visibility and inaccessible audit logs make investigations difficult.
Balancing Clean Restores and Data Loss in Cyber Recovery: Recovery remains a significant gap for many organizations, often due to the absence of automation and streamlined workflows. Effective cyber recovery differs from traditional operational recovery in that it involves identifying clean data — untainted by malware or corruption — amid potentially infected files. As threats infiltrate data over time, pinpointing the right restore points becomes complex and essential to avoid reintroducing threats into the environment. Automation here is a game-changer; by using AI to identify clean versions of data and quickly restore them, organizations can dramatically reduce recovery time.
Automating and Proactively Implementing Remediation Strategies: Advanced persistent threats (APTs) often evade detection, making it difficult to eradicate them entirely. Proactive and automated strategies are necessary to reduce recovery time and avoid reinfections.
Assess Risks Through the Cyber Resilience Maturity Model
Druva’s model consists of five levels, each level building up to help organizations achieve a stronger cyber resilience:
Level 1: Data Immutability
The foundation of cyber resilience starts with ensuring backup data is immutable — unchangeable and securely stored. Following the 3-2-1 backup rule (three copies of data, on two different media, with one off-site) is a best practice to guarantee data availability and integrity. Druva’s approach makes this simpler by leveraging air-gapped cloud storage and dual envelope encryption to protect backup data from tampering.
Key Consideration: How effectively do you implement the 3-2-1 backup rule while managing security risks associated with multiple data copies?
Level 2: Backup Security
Ensuring backups are secure involves more than just immutability. It also requires protecting the backup infrastructure. Securing root access, implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA), and isolating backup systems are crucial for resilience against threats that could impact both production and backup environments.
Key Consideration: Are you enforcing strong access management and MFA for your backup systems to prevent unauthorized access?
Level 3: Cyber Remediation
Once backup security is established, focus on minimizing data loss during recovery. The challenge lies in quickly identifying clean data while avoiding the reintroduction of threats. Organizations must pinpoint restore points and confirm data integrity to ensure a clean recovery process.
Key Consideration: How do you identify the cleanest restore point to minimize data loss and ensure a threat-free recovery?
Level 4: Cyber Investigation
Efficient investigation requires comprehensive analysis to understand the scope of a breach and prevent reinfection. This process is often chaotic, involving multiple data sources and compliance requirements. Organizations need a clear incident timeline and advanced monitoring to detect anomalies early.
Key Consideration: Can you quickly identify unusual access patterns that signal potential compromises?
Level 5: Enhance Detection
The final level focuses on improving threat detection through proactive monitoring of both backup and production environments. Attackers often target backups by modifying retention policies or encrypting data to hinder recovery efforts. Early detection is essential to limit attack damage and strengthen overall security.
Key Consideration: Do you have the tools and processes to detect Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) across your protected data?
How Druva Empowers Organizations to Strengthen Cyber Resilience
Druva's Data Security Cloud, built on secure AWS infrastructure and employing a zero-trust model, offers a comprehensive approach to improving incident response and recovery. The platform's features align with the five levels of the maturity model, addressing critical gaps and empowering organizations to progress through the maturity stages. See examples of how Druva bolsters your cyber resilience at each stage below:
Level 1: Data Immutability: Druva uses air-gapped cloud storage with robust encryption to ensure data integrity, making the 3-2-1 rule easy to implement. Get the details on how Druva delivers best-in-class security for enterprise workloads and end-users.
Level 2: Backup Security: The platform isolates backup infrastructure and employs strong access controls, including MFA and single sign-on (SSO), to secure the environment. This single, secure, and scalable 100% SaaS platform tackles the complex challenges of data security — explore the platform in this white paper.
Level 3: Cyber Remediation: Druva facilitates quick identification of clean data and recovery workflows to minimize downtime. Tools like Restore Scan and Quarantine Recovery help ensure threat-free restoration. Read our blog to discover how Druva automates the recovery of the last known good versions of each file, providing a single “Curated Snapshot” to accelerate recovery.
Level 4: Cyber Investigation: With capabilities like Threat Hunting and anomaly detection, Druva helps uncover the scope of threats and accelerates incident response. Take an in-depth look at Druva’s threat hunting capabilities in the blog.
Level 5: Enhance Detection: Druva's Managed Data Detection and Response (DDR) provides 24x7 security monitoring, with expert analysis to detect and respond to threats in real time. But how does this service function in a real-world incident response scenario? Explore how it was used to roll back customer data in our solution brief.
Advancing Cyber Resilience for the Future of Your Data
As cyber threats grow more sophisticated, organizations must go beyond traditional defenses and adopt comprehensive strategies that integrate data security with incident response. Druva’s Cyber Resilience Maturity Model provides a structured path for organizations to enhance their readiness, reduce gaps, and strengthen defenses.
To stay ahead of emerging threats, businesses should continuously assess their cyber resilience posture. Advancing through Druva’s five levels will help organizations close gaps, improve threat detection, and expedite recovery efforts.
Next Steps
To understand your organization’s security gaps, read our new white paper on the maturity model and schedule a free cyber resiliency assessment with Druva. This assessment will help you uncover blind spots and build a roadmap to enhance your cyber resilience.
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