--- title: Internetwork Engineering Blog | Jason Smith (2) description: Jason Smith is the Security Consultant for Internetwork Engineering (IE) with over 15 years experience in IT & IT Security, including finance, retail, and aerospace and defense. Connect with Jason on LinkedIn. (2) --- [Skip to main content](https://www.ineteng.com/blog/author/jason-smith/page/2#maincontent) - Categories ** - Follow Us ** - ** - [**](https://www.facebook.com/internetworkengineering) - [**](https://twitter.com/InetEng) - [**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/internetwork-engineering) Internetwork Engineering Want to learn more about network consulting and all things Information Technology? 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Connect with Jason on LinkedIn. - **Connect with Jason Smith** - [**](https://twitter.com/smith380) [![Blog Feature](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/298890/blog-files/blog--cards-feature.png) ](https://www.ineteng.com/blog/how-to-adopt-a-data-protection-strategy) [Data Protection](https://www.ineteng.com/blog/topic/data-protection) | [IT Consulting](https://www.ineteng.com/blog/topic/it-consulting) ## [ How to Adopt a Data Protection Strategy ](https://www.ineteng.com/blog/how-to-adopt-a-data-protection-strategy) By: [Jason Smith](https://www.ineteng.com/blog/author/jason-smith) March 5th, 2024 Cybersecurity can be expensive, challenging, and often unrewarding. Cybersecurity and risk practitioners have faced challenges over the years to find the most effective metrics to show success and return on investment in cybersecurity efforts. Many organizations have taken a strategic approach and started to group security controls into programs. This approach provides those organizations the ability to share the holistic perspective and success, whereas it is more difficult to show success of an individual component. Data protection is one of those areas. 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What kept your environment safe yesterday, may not be enough today. Are you truly taking the concept of cyber resiliency to heart, or just crossing your fingers with every hack tactic debut? 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We’ve put together 4 tried and true best practices to help you up your chances of getting a more manageable cybersecurity insurance premium. Let’s review. 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When the term immutable backup comes up, we often hear, “’What is it,’ ‘Why would I need it?’, and ‘How can it help me?’” [Read More](https://www.ineteng.com/blog/what-are-immutable-backups-and-5-reasons-why-you-need-them-for-your-disaster-recovery-plan) Share ** - ** Close - [**](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.ineteng.com/blog/what-are-immutable-backups-and-5-reasons-why-you-need-them-for-your-disaster-recovery-plan) - [**](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Immutable+Backups+and+5+Reasons+Why+You+Need+them+for+Your+Disaster+Recovery+Plan&url=https://www.ineteng.com/blog/what-are-immutable-backups-and-5-reasons-why-you-need-them-for-your-disaster-recovery-plan&via=smith380) - [**](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=https://www.ineteng.com/blog/what-are-immutable-backups-and-5-reasons-why-you-need-them-for-your-disaster-recovery-plan&title=Immutable+Backups+and+5+Reasons+Why+You+Need+them+for+Your+Disaster+Recovery+Plan&summary=Cringing+at+the+cost+of+immutable+backups%3F+Believe+it+or+not%2C+they+will+probably+end+up+saving+you+money.+Read+why+you+should+consider+this+investment.++) - [**](mailto:?body=https://www.ineteng.com/blog/what-are-immutable-backups-and-5-reasons-why-you-need-them-for-your-disaster-recovery-plan) [![Blog Feature](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/298890/blog-files/blog--cards-feature.png) ](https://www.ineteng.com/blog/your-top-five-zero-trust-architecture-zta-questions-answered) [Network Access Control](https://www.ineteng.com/blog/topic/network-access-control) | [Cybersecurity](https://www.ineteng.com/blog/topic/cybersecurity) ## [ Your Top Five Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) Questions Answered ](https://www.ineteng.com/blog/your-top-five-zero-trust-architecture-zta-questions-answered) By: [Jason Smith](https://www.ineteng.com/blog/author/jason-smith) November 16th, 2021 If you’re concerned about Zero Trust Architecture adoption, you’re not alone. It’s slowly becoming a necessity as cyber threats advance, and more companies do their business online. Zero Trust isn't a new concept. The term “Zero Trust” was initially published as part of a Forrester Research paper, “No More Chewy Centers: Introducing the Zero Trust Model of Information Security” in 2010. 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