Assessing Risk of Data

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The DG Data Trends Report: Assessing the Risk of Data Loss During the COVID-19 Pandemic
When you drill into the numbers you can see just how much data egress to cloud storage services and USBs increased after COVID-19 was labeled a pandemic. In January and February 2020, we detected an average of 195TB per month being uploaded to cloud storage services. That number jumped to 336TB in March and April, a 72% increase compared to the previous two months.
The numbers are more alarming when you compare the volume of data copied to USB devices. In January and February, we detected an average of 99TB per month: the volume more than doubled in the months of March and April to 221TB.