Backup & Disaster Recovery
Data loss and the disasters that precede them can destroy a business. Even small data losses affecting 100 or fewer files will cost you downtime and lost revenue. Many businesses are experiencing data loss events, and despite improved backup systems, the likelihood of it occurring is actually rising. At an enterprise level, the total volume of data loss has increased over 400 percent in the last 2 years.
Remediation costs represent just one of the reasons all businesses need a backup and disaster recovery plan, but there are other reasons to consider implementing this critical action:
Broad range of threats
Anywhere there is data, there are threats to that data. Data is a valuable component of running a business, and it is open to a number of threats that can lead to data leaks and data loss. These include physical device damage, human threats, technical threats and natural disasters. You’ve likely done your due diligence to protect against many of these, but any vulnerability could put your data in jeopardy, making it vital that you have a plan to help you navigate around any disasters or data losses that occur.
Security measures fail
Even the strongest and most considered security measures can fail, letting in viruses that can do your business harm. Ransomware viruses are known to withhold a victim’s data in exchange for a ransom payment. However, handing ransom over to cybercriminals may not restore your data, and is discouraged as a means of supporting future attacks. Instead, with the proper backup and disaster recovery plan, you can secure you data in the cloud where you can retrieve uninfected versions of the data that was taken, and restore it to a new device, or your old, cleaned one.
Permanent data loss
Without a data backup and disaster recovery plan, you may be unable to retrieve the data that was lost. Your ability to retrieve data greatly relies on the actions you’ve taken to fortify that data for retrieval. This includes not only creating data backups on physical storage devices, where they are still vulnerable to any number of the threats listed above, but also with a cloud backup service so that they may be retrieved quickly and efficiently, no matter how they were lost or altered to begin with.
Businesses can protect themselves from these damages and restore their data quickly after any data loss event by having the right plan in place.