Backups alone are no longer enough — resilience is now the real goal of modern data protection.

At RSA Conference 2026, Tom Hollingsworth shared his key takeaways from Tech Field Day Extra, showing that data protection is evolving far beyond traditional backups. He highlighted three major trends: Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), which automatically classifies sensitive data, prevents leaks, and audits access, led by companies like Veeam, immutable backups, where solutions from Object First make data tamper-proof even during attacks, and ResOps, a unified resilience approach from Commvault that integrates identity security, threat monitoring, and comprehensive data protection to keep businesses running under any circumstances.

The message is clear: in today’s threat landscape, resilience—not just backups—is the new standard for protecting critical data.