Non Technical Introduction to Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery
Protecting your business from the impact of data failures and breaches should be high on your list of priorities. If the thought of losing data or being locked out of your systems isn’t enough to strike fear into the heart of your management team, consider these consequences:
- financial loss through fines and penalties
- lost revenue through downtime
- reputation and brand damage
- frustrated employees
- handing an opportunity to your competitors
It’s not just the big brands and large enterprises that are at risk of cyberattacks. They’re just the ones that hit the headlines. Every day there are attempts to breach business systems, regardless of size or sector. And with cybercrime predicted to exceed $2trillion by the end of 2019, it’s value is significantly higher than the illegal drugs industry.
Malware, viruses, ransomware, phishing – we’re all familiar with these terms because we hear about X company who got had their data stolen or Y organisation that had to pay millions in ransom to get their systems back online.
If the worst does happen and your systems fail or are breached, what would you do?
It’s likely that you’ll revert to a previously backed up copy of your data. It’s a time-consuming process that can take days or weeks to fully restore – even longer if you also need to replace damaged servers and IT kit, or if your IT systems are complex or reach across multiple locations.
And in today’s always on, real time economy, that can cripple a business. Imagine a whole day with no sales processed, no customer enquiries dealt with, no production line, no inventory management, no anything – because it’s all data – and your data has been compromised. Now imagine if it took a week to get back to business as usual.
What do you do when disaster strikes? What is your business continuity plan? How long would it take you to get back to business as usual? What’s the quickest way to get up and running again?
Our Introductory Guide to Data Backup and Recovery has been written for non-technical, non-IT people, who have concerns about cybersecurity and want to reduce risk following a failure or breach, or want to ensure that the organisation’s business continuity plan has data covered with a robust backup and recovery protocol.
Download our Introductory Guide to Data Backup and Recovery to find out or alternatively, speak to our experts about protecting your critical business data.
