Cyber protection: the hot new shared space of business data continuity

We’re on the cusp of another great combination, as the tectonic forces of market dynamics and modern threats are fusing together two well-established information technology sectors — data protection and cybersecurity — into a bigger, broader category of solutions called cyber protection.

What is driving this sea-change in how we protect our entire IT estate — including data, applications and infrastructure — from critical threats and interruptions that can bring the entire business to a halt? What are the implications of cyber protection for the enterprise?

Data and security teams and silos coming together

Not long ago, any midsized to large enterprise would have data wranglers working to archive, replicate and promote data redundancy and recovery in their own management silos, while a security team would be off in the security operations center, scanning for vulnerabilities and preventing threats in their own sets of tools. There was little need for these two teams to collaborate.

Now as enterprises move applications and data to hybrid IT environments, including multiple cloud infrastructure options, mobile and “internet of things” devices and edge computing resources, there’s far more threat surface and many more data exploits for these once-separate teams to deal with.

Existential risk is creating a phenomenon of market consolidation around cyber protection, a category we could express as a boolean of the two overlapping spaces of cybersecurity and data protection using our Intellyx Market Mindmap™ diagram (pictured).

Don’t let the fact that these two market sectors are considered mature and contain many familiar-looking solutions fool you …