Backup in 2025: between new threats and technological innovations

On the occasion of World Backup Day, on March 31, KiwiBackup brings you an Expert Round Table: 3 specialists in the field scrutinize the technical developments, the trust criteria, and the emerging risks that IT backup faces today.

Expert round table:

Round table moderated by Céline THEVENET -KiwiBackup

The backup market has evolved enormously, moving from local hard drives to complex cloud solutions. This evolution, while beneficial, has been accompanied by new threats, notably increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. Today, IT resellers face the need to rethink backup, no longer as a simple copy, but as an essential pillar of cybersecurity.

New threats and business needs

Ransomware no longer just targets production data; it directly attacks backups to prevent any recovery. In response to these threats, businesses, including local authorities and small and medium-sized businesses, have new needs:

  • Recovery speed: The time needed to restore and recover data has become a key criterion.
  • Enhanced security: Businesses are looking for solutions with backups encrypted at the destination and immutable or "air-gapped" systems. An immutable backup is a backup that, once made, can no longer be altered on the network.
  • Backup segmentation: It is increasingly common to make multiple copies to different destinations: in the cloud, on-site (on-premise), or Cloud-to-Cloud.
  • Data sovereignty: Geopolitical risks and laws such as the US Cloud Act are pushing businesses to turn to French or European providers to guarantee the sovereignty of their data.

The crucial importance of Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP)

Growing awareness of cyber risk has transformed backup strategies, which are abandoning the reactive approach to become proactive and resilient. The "3-2-1-1-0" method is an example of this new approach, including three copies of data, on two different media, one off-site copy, one immutable (Air-Gapped) copy, and zero errors during restore tests.

However, critical points are still overlooked:

  • Restore tests: Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) and Business Continuity Plans (BCP) are still too rarely formalized, tested, and updated. A test is not limited to checking that the data is there, but includes validation by the customer that the restored system meets their needs.
  • Cyber insurance: Many businesses neglect these financial protections, discovering after an incident that their insurance policy does not include coverage for cyber incidents. It is essential to have the insurance declaration audited by an independent third party.
  • Cost of downtime: The financial impact of a business interruption is often underestimated, threatening the very survival of the organization.

KiwiBackup: a partner for sovereign and resilient backup

For IT professionals, it is vital to have a solid backup strategy. KiwiBackup's Cloud-to-Cloud backup solution replicates data from a cloud such as Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace to another environment, thus meeting the need to break away from a single provider.

KiwiBackup offers offsite and immutable backup solutions 100% hosted in France. Compatibility is broad, including Synology and QNAP NAS, Cloud-to-Cloud, workstations (Windows, Linux, Mac), and virtualized environments (VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox). The solution is ISO 27001 and HDS certified, thus guaranteeing a high level of security and compliance. In the event of a disaster, backup is the "key to success" that allows the company to restart quickly and preserve its reputation.