{"id":5645,"date":"2024-08-21T07:25:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T07:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gitprotect.io\/blog\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:43:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:43:20","slug":"why-devops-backup-top-reasons-to-persuade-your-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gitprotect.io\/blog\/why-devops-backup-top-reasons-to-persuade-your-management\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Critical Reasons Why You Need Dedicated Backup for DevOps Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Traditional backup of endpoints, servers, or databases has become almost synonymous with cybersecurity. However, there is increasing discussion about the need to secure data stored in SaaS or DevOps solutions, such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jira, or Azure DevOps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Why are we questioning additional security for DevOps or SaaS data? And what implications might this have on the intellectual property, source code, metadata, and projects stored within these tools?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here we come to the most common misconceptions among both people working directly in these tools, DevOps, decision-makers, and management level. And no offense here – until recently, there were no tools specializing in securing DevOps data. So we got used to coming up with workarounds, utilizing traditional file backups, or writing and maintaining our scripts. In this article, we want to show you what consequences this approach can bring to your company – especially if you are a part of management team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Reason 1: SaaS data can also be lost, deleted, or corrupted<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It is estimated that a single midsize business uses around 217 SaaS applications. This growing number of SaaS services and DevOps tools usage does not escape the attention of cybercriminals. In fact, it opens at least that many \u201cdoors\u201d to break into company IT systems and steal company data.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Source: TechTarget<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to TechTarget\u2019s Enterprise Strategy Group report called \u201cData Protection for SaaS\u201d,  IT professionals highlight service outages, malicious deletion from cyberattacks, and accidental deletion. as the most common causes of data loss or corruption in SaaS-based applications.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We won’t go into detail about the threats to your GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jira, Azure DevOps data. We assume you’re strongly aware of them. If not, we encourage you to reach for one of our materials:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article DevSecOps Myhtbuster – Nothing fails in the cloud<\/a>

The State of DevOps Threat Report <\/a>– our latest research which revealed that last year the number of incidents in GitHub grew by over 21%, Jira users were affected every 5 days or 32% of events in FirLav affected service performance.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Reason 2: The Shared Responsibility Model<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

All cloud service providers operate within the Shared Responsibility Model (Limited Liability Model), which strictly defines the obligations of each party – the customer\u2019s and the provider\u2019s. Not to be unfounded, let\u2019s look at the abstracts from official documentation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n