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Traditional retention requirements describe the need to protect long-term data, particularly for compliance purposes. However, it is critical to extend this level of protection to primary copies as recent cyberattacks have targeted primary backups.
Due to these new protection needs, IT administrators must now ensure that long-term data is not only protected, but this protection is also extended to primary backups, while carefully managing the storage space requirements on their system.
Long-term data is occasionally retrieved once it is stored. This archived data must ensure data integrity while meeting corporate governance rules and regulatory compliance standards for extended periods (SEC17a-4(f)).
To minimize the impact of cyber-attacks, primary backup data requires protection once the backup window is complete. Applying RL to the primary backup set provides IT administrators with an unalterable data copy containing varied expiration requirements determined by the corporate backup retention policies and the overall system space utilization.