The second edition of The State of Storage and Backup Security Report assessed 245 environments with 8,589 storage and backup devices from leading providers including Dell, NetApp, Veritas, Hitachi Vantara, Pure, Commvault and others.
The findings underscore a significant gap in the state of enterprise storage and backup security, and shows how much it lags behind the security of other layers of IT. With the growing sophistication of data-centric attacks, the high volumes of data at risk and tightened regulations, enterprise storage and backup security clearly require urgent attention.
Highlights from the report:
- 9,996 discrete security issues detected – both security misconfigurations and vulnerabilities
- An enterprise storage & backup system has 14 security risks
- Out of 14 risks, 3 are high or critical risk
- And many more…