![]() Ransomware, in particular, is a real threat, and it may surprise many in IT how prevalent and successful these attacks are. ![]() If the data is accidentally or maliciously deleted, corrupted or encrypted by ransomware, customers will be unable to recover their data unless they have a separate backup of their own. Under this model, providers secure their infrastructure, but the customer is ultimately responsible for the data that belongs to them. SaaS providers, like cloud providers, almost always operate on a shared responsibility model. Unfortunately, although many of these applications are critical to day-today business operations, the data stored in them is not protected to the same degree as on-premises data - likely because there is still some confusion in IT about who is responsible for protecting their data. Critical applications such as office productivity suites, CRM and ERP are all now commonly delivered as a service. More often than not, they’re leveraging a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application, and, increasingly, they’re also moving their legacy applications off-premises in favor of SaaS. When enterprises deploy new applications, it’s rare that they do so in their own data center. In this feature, Odaseva‘s VP of Solutions Engineering Dave Horton offers some considerations for ensuring SaaS ransomware protection. Solutions Review’s Expert Insights Series is a collection of contributed articles written by industry experts in enterprise software categories.
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