Cloud has expanded where data lives and how you should protect it. Data now flows across SaaS apps, cloud-native services, and on-premises systems, often in more than one public cloud. That flexibility is powerful, but it also expands the blast radius for mistakes, misconfigurations, and modern threats like double-extortion ransomware. Cloud data protection is your operating model for securing, backing up, and recovering this sprawl by aligning identity, encryption, immutability, and recovery...