August 25, 2025
Todd Thorsen, CISO
Partnerships with MSPs can be critical, especially for smaller organizations. When done right, they allow the company to focus on running their core business while leveraging a trusted partner to recommend and manage the technology that enables the business.
Over the past several years, a troubling trend has emerged related to data backup and recovery. Too often, cloud collaboration platforms (CCPs), such as Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, are misused for purposes they are not designed for, namely data resilience and recovery.
CCPs should not be used for backup and recovery. They amount to little more than a checkbox and may result in clients getting a false sense of security about their data resilience posture. This may manifest itself into a significant issue when the need arises to recover lost data and it is unavailable.
Read the full article here: https://www.channelpronetwork.com/2025/08/25/what-msps-need-to-know-about-the-risks-of-relying-on-collaboration-tools-for-data-backup/
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