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DATA RESILIENCE READINESS FOR AFRICA’ S DIGITAL LEADERS.
Insights from the Veeam – ITWeb Survey into the data protection and recovery strategies of African organisations.
Introduction
Examining data protection strategies in Africa
2025 Veeam – ITWeb survey explored data protection maturity in African businesses, including the adoption of AI-enabled and cloud-ready recovery strategies.
Data volumes have been rapidly in recent years due to increased digitalisation, cloud adoption, and AI use. Protecting data that is spread across multiple systems and locations is becoming increasingly more complex. With cyber-attacks, particularly ransomware, being a daily occurrence across the African continent, businesses need modern backup solutions that enable fast restoration to minimise downtime.
Data resilience refers to an organisation’ s ability to withstand data-related disruptions and quickly and accurately recover from system failures, cyber attacks, or natural disasters. The goal is not just to prevent data loss, but to maintain business continuity – even in the face of unforeseen events. It means that data remains accessible, even during outages or incidents – if one recovery site is compromised, organisations must be able to restore systems elsewhere. This makes data mobility and secure, flexible recovery capabilities critical.
The findings of the 2025 Veeam Data Resilience Readiness Survey show that although most African organisations are confident in their ransomware recovery abilities, there is a disconnect between perceived readiness and actual resilience. While organisations are taking some important steps – like backups and training – many are neglecting deeper, proactive strategies that could prevent or contain ransomware attacks.
Data resilience refers to an organisation’ s ability to withstand data-related disruptions and quickly and accurately recover from system failures, cyber attacks, or natural disasters. •
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