Keepit, the only vendor-independent cloud solution for SaaS data protection, has been recognized with the 2025 Cloud Computing Security Excellence Award from TMC, a global media company. This prestigious award highlights companies that leverage cloud technology to deliver powerful and innovative cybersecurity offerings to the market.
Ensuring Data Resilience and Business Continuity
The award acknowledges the effectiveness of the Keepit platform in providing a critical solution for business-critical SaaS data. The article notes that many businesses have not kept pace with the need for robust backup and recovery as they migrate key data to SaaS applications, leaving them vulnerable to data loss.
The Keepit platform addresses this gap by offering a single solution to protect data across eleven major SaaS applications, including Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Jira, and Okta. Its unique, separate, and immutable storage ensures data resilience, helps organizations maintain compliance, and mitigates the impact of ransomware attacks.
Industry Validation and Trust
“We are proud that the Keepit platform securely backs up data for over 18,000 customers globally, and this award validates that our solution benefits the industry and customers,” said Michele Hayes, CMO at Keepit.
Rich Tehrani, CEO of TMC, also praised Keepit, stating that the award is a testament to the company’s commitment to innovation and excellence in the cloud security market.
Headquartered in Copenhagen, Keepit continues to expand its global footprint with offices and data centers worldwide, building on the trust of its customers through its dedication to providing secure, reliable data protection.
Defining data governance and data classification
So, what is data governance and how does it relate to cyber resilience?
Existing under the broad umbrella of data management, data governance is a program — implemented via policies and standards — intended to ensure the availability, quality, and security of an organization’s data in accordance with applicable regulations and obligations (e.g., adhering to industry standards, fulfilling requirements for certifications, etc.).
Within data governance, data classification is the process of separating and organizing data into relevant groups (“classes”) based on their shared characteristics, such as the level of sensitivity, risks they present, and the compliance regulations that protect them.
Data governance underpins cyber resilience plans
An intelligent data governance program delivers several beneficial outcomes for organizations:
- It helps to ensure the availability, quality, and security of an organization’s data, making it a foundational pillar of business continuity.
- Data governance helps improve overall data accuracy and impacts outcomes based on that data — which can range from comparatively simple day-to-day business decisions and operations to more complex, forward-looking initiatives including AI-focused programs.
- It helps to support organizational efforts to comply with regulations and other obligations, making it a cornerstone of compliance.
- An effective data governance program also permeates the entire organization, increasing data literacy, data accessibility, and data scalability.
Do you know where your data is?
Of course, disaster recovery planning cannot start without a clear understanding and mapping of your data and its significance to your business. What data is crucial for us to continue running our operations? Who needs access to which data to do their job? Where do we store all of this critical data?
Knowing the answers to these questions will start your journey towards ensuring continuity in cases of data loss or cyberattacks. This is achieved through an efficient and effective data governance framework.
I hope that, with our new report in hand, CISOs and CIOs will be able to future-proof their modern, data-driven enterprises through effective data governance.
About Keepit’s new report, “Intelligent data governance: Why taking control of your data is key for operational continuity and innovation.”
Our report takes a practical approach to data governance by offering a resource to organizations for creating or adopting a framework that works best for them.
Key takeaways from the report:
-Major trends shaping enterprise IT
-The importance of “always-on” data
-Resilience against data loss and corruption
-Data governance as an investment
-A practical approach to data governance
-10 questions for board discussions
About Keepit
At Keepit, we believe in a digital future where all software is delivered as a service. Keepit’s mission is to protect data in the cloud Keepit is a software company specializing in Cloud-to-Cloud data backup and recovery. Deriving from +20 year experience in building best-in-class data protection and hosting services, Keepit is pioneering the way to secure and protect cloud data at scale.
About Version 2 Digital
Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.
Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.
