With recent research revealing “you will be hacked, so embrace the breach,” emphasizing cyber resilience has become standard practice for organizations large and small. In fact, ensuring that mission-critical data is immediately recoverable and can be put back into play is becoming a game-changer.

As the fourth-largest municipality in Arizona, serving 281,000 citizens, the Town of Gilbert is a billion-dollar enterprise, and Dell is helping with its resiliency plan through Dell’s Cyber Recovery vault and CyberSense, according to Tony Bryson (pictured, right), chief information security officer for the Town of Gilbert.

“The reality is that you’re likely to see some type of cyber event, so you better be prepared for it because it’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when,” Bryson stated. “What APEX and Dell Cyber Recovery vault provide gives us the elasticity we need as a small organization to expand quickly and deal with our internal data concerns. It could be a game changer for us as a town, because we’re a small organization transitioning to a mid-size organization.”

Bryson and Steve Kenniston (pictured, left), The Storage Alchemist, spoke with industry analyst Dave Vellante at the Dell Technologies World event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Dell is helping the Town of Gilbert enhance its cybersecurity and resiliency plans. (* Disclosure below.)

Cyber resilience is a hot topic

Through Dell’s Cyber Recovery vault and CyberSense solutions, enterprises are taking their data resiliency to the next level, whether on-premises or through a colocation data center, according to Kenniston.

“In the last 24 months, I don’t think there has been a meeting that I’ve been to with a customer where cyber resiliency and cybersecurity haven’t come up,” he said. “The CyberSense technology, which is the technology that scans the data once it comes in from the backup to ensure that it is clean, can be recovered and you can feel confident that your recoveries look good.”

By having an air-gap solution, Bryson believes peace of mind is elevated based on enhanced data security.

“You cannot have true data security without having an air gap,” he pointed out. “A lot of ransomware that we see moves laterally through your organization. So if you have all your data backed up in the same data center that your backups and your primary data sources are, odds are they’re all going to get owned at the same time.”

The air gap solution is incorporated into the Cyber Recovery vault, according to Kenniston.

“So in the Cyber Recovery vault, you’ve got one PowerProtect appliance on one side in your data center …. then wherever your vaulted area is, whether it be a colo, on-prem or wherever it might be, we create a connection between the two that is one directional,” he stated.

Managed services streamline recoveries because it is difficult to find the right people to do certain things, according to Bryson.

“I think from a manager’s perspective, you get a bigger bang for the buck going with managed services … you have people that work with that technology all the time,” he added.

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Dell Technologies World event:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Dell Technologies World. Neither Dell Technologies Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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