Backup Retention Policy Design: Balancing Legal Hold, Compliance, and Storage Cost
How to design a backup retention policy that survives legal holds and audits without paying to keep every copy forever. Tiers, regulations, and deletion duties.
Cloud-Backups
Backing Up SaaS Beyond Microsoft 365 and Google: Salesforce, Slack, and Atlassian Data
The editors of The Data Protection Review · Oct 20, 2026
Disaster-Recoveries
Holiday Change-Freeze Backup Readiness: Skeleton-Crew Recovery Runbooks for Q4
The editors of The Data Protection Review · Oct 13, 2026
Ransomware-Resiliences
Why 96% of Ransomware Attacks Now Target the Backup Repository First
The editors of The Data Protection Review · Aug 5, 2026
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Disaster-RecoveriesThe Veeam 2026 Data Trust Report: Why 90% of Leaders Are Confident but Only 28% Fully Recover
Veeam's 2026 survey found 90% of leaders confident of recovery while 28% fully restored their data. The gap is a measurement problem, not an optimism problem.
Ransomware-Resiliences
Sophos State of Ransomware 2026: Backup-Based Recovery Overtakes Ransom Payment for the First Time
Backup-Strategies2026 Data Protection Budgets: Where the Spending Increase Is Actually Going
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