Data protection is the practice of safeguarding sensitive information from unauthorized access, loss, or corruption. It combines policies, technologies—such as encryption and access controls—and secure backups to ensure information remains confidential, accurate, and available while complying with legal privacy regulations. Today, data protection strategies encompass both traditional data protection measures, like data backups and restore functions, and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans. For this reason, many organizations are adopting services like disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) as part of their broader data protection strategies.