Given the recent rash of ransomware attacks, businesses are finding that now is a good time as any to reevaluate their data backup strategies.

Nearly a third (32 percent) of organizations have been hit by ransomware, found a study from Imperva. Costs accrued by downtime were described as the biggest business impact of a ransomware infection for a majority (59 percent) of respondents.

This week, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Software is giving security-conscious organizations new reasons to consider its Adaptive Backup and Recovery Suite by adding additional protections that keep backup data safe. It’s a collection of data protection products that includes HPE Data Protector, Backup Navigator, Storage Optimizer and VM Explorer.

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