Losing access to your company’s data, even briefly, is a nightmare fit for a horror film. Data backup programs make copies of your data and save them in a secure location. If something goes wrong, recovery programs will use these copies to retrieve your deleted files.
If your company currently employs backup and recovery technologies, you may assume your data is secure. However, this is not always the case.
A new study reveals that some backup programs are not always as dependable as they should be. Backup-related difficulties account for one-third of all data losses. When individuals try to restore data, they find that it has been lost or damaged.
It is not only faulty backups that you should be concerned about.
Ransomware is one of the most serious risks that organizations face today. This is a sort of harmful software (sometimes known as “malware”) that prevents you from accessing your data unless you pay a ransom.
According to the survey, half of businesses that utilize software for backups still pay ransoms to regain their assets since it was faster than attempting to recover their contents themselves. Is it even worse? Only a few companies who paid ransoms were able to completely restore their data.
Backup programs are designed to protect your data, so why are they unreliable for so many businesses?
Often, this is due to improper setup. Even if they are, they must be reviewed on a regular basis to ensure that they continue to back up your information.
Additionally, traditional backup and recovery methods cannot always keep up with today’s sophisticated cyber-attacks.
Putting together and maintaining a dependable backup system can be challenging. IT professionals (like us) can ensure that your tools work properly every day.
We can also implement additional precautions, such as continuous data protection (CDP). This continually stores changes to your files, allowing you to travel back in time and restore your data to the state it was in before an attack or loss.
This is something we do for businesses like yours every day. If you’d like us to help you too, get in touch.