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Phishing, Dark Data and Remote Work: Why Veritas Says Data Protection Must Get Proactive

Veritas Singapore director Justin Loh links phishing losses and scattered hybrid IT to the case for unified data protection, citing a CSA phishing survey.

Cybersecurity ASEAN editors · 2 min read
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The pandemic has sped up digital transformation, according to Justin Loh, country director for Singapore at Veritas Technologies LLC. With new ways of working taking shape and more staff based at home, companies are hurrying to build up and reinforce their IT infrastructure. Loh points out, however, that storing more information across scattered locations brings its own problems, among them dark data and a rise in threats such as phishing and ransomware.

He cites a recent survey by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) as a timely warning that mission-critical business data needs better protection. Staff are still being taken in by fraudulent phishing emails, and bank phishing scams alone left 374 victims with combined losses of at least $1.6 million.

Complexity makes protection harder

On top of that uncertainty, organisations are dealing with a sharp rise in complexity. Loh describes environments that are highly fragmented: services and applications running on premises and across several public or private clouds, and a mixture of legacy applications alongside new workloads. Securing such a spread-out, varied set of systems can be very difficult, he says, while businesses are also trying to simplify day-to-day operations, innovate in the cloud and lower security risk.

Veritas's answer is its Enterprise Data Service Platform (EDSP), which the company says offers an integrated, unified approach to data availability, protection and insight. At its core is NetBackup 8.3, an extension of Veritas's unified data protection and recovery product intended to let customers standardise across their environments and so cut complexity and risk whatever the workload or cloud. Loh highlights three features:

  • Continuous data protection that brings Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) for virtual machines close to zero, so more data can be recovered. After a disaster, corruption, ransomware or other malware incident, a business can restore to almost the precise moment things went wrong.

  • Greater operational resilience and agility, achieved by moving from a disaster recovery (DR) operating model to one of automated business resilience.

  • Stronger resistance to ransomware, with system hardening and immutability protecting data integrity, and automated, orchestrated rehearsals making recovery more efficient so that business-critical applications stay available around the clock.

Loh expects working from home, brought on by COVID-19, to outlast the pandemic. Because it keeps enlarging both an organisation's data footprint and its attack surface, he argues that businesses need to be more proactive than ever about protecting and managing data. Veritas, he says, aims to give customers the tools and resources to withstand whatever threats arise and to protect data wherever it sits, from the edge to the core to the cloud.

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