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2022 Data Protection Trends in Public Sector

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353 public sector organizations were surveyed on their IT and data protection strategies, including their plans for 2022.

  • 90%

    of organizations have a protection gap

  • 52%

    of organizations had at least one ransomware attack last year

  • 40%

    of data is unrecoverable after a cyberattack

Learn how business and IT leaders addressed these issues from shared insights.

  • Cloud-powered

    66% of orgs use cloud‑services as part of Data Protection strategy

  • Data loss and downtime

    34% of servers suffered at least one outage per year

  • Enterprise backup workloads

    35% of IT leaders consider hybrid‑cloud workload protection as the most important aspect of enterprise backup

  • Backup solutions

    20% of IT implementers say improving reliability or RPO/RTO will drive changing their backup solution in 2022

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