You have a great firewall, staff are trained yearly, virus scans are done weekly, passwords are changed regularly - it’s all as safe as houses.
Then you get a major data breach… HOW?
Hackers are better than security, staff will use insecure passwords or social media on a work device, a tired colleague opens a compromised email attachment, or your cloud email service is hacked. It happens to the best and most well-defended businesses and it is a fact of life that no matter how good our border defences and internal policies, data is still being compromised. Your one backstop defence is being ready for the worst.
Being ready for the worst allows your business to continue trading, regardless of losing data in a failure or data breach. A regularly tested backup and recovery system is the best, and in most cases only, defence against all these threats.
Disaster strikes
Well let me quickly go through what we offer as standard.
Let’s say you have all your financial data on a cloud-based system; this is crucial data and has a mandatory retention period, and your business can’t operate without it. The data resides at a data centre somewhere and is generally available all the time. The company providing the service, as with most software as a service, guarantees the availability of the service but does NOT guarantee the data in the service is intact. (This is normal for cloud services.)
There is a fire at the data centre - it’s not serious but it damages the machine that your data resides on. While the service IS available on another machine, your finance department can no longer access the data you need.
Does this make your stomach sink? It does mine.
Now think of all the essential information you hold to run your business and where you keep it. Imagine losing 80% of it to ransomware. It happens, hundreds of times a day, every day. Most cases are never reported - people hand over the money and sometimes get some of their data back. The criminals win, the crime continues to be profitable and with 70% of UK companies having no disaster recovery plan and no secure off-site backups, UK businesses continue to be the low hanging fruit for the cyber-criminal.
Backup Plan
Can you answer the questions below positively?
- Should you lose all or part of your data, how would you function?
- What is the plan?
- How do you get up and running again?
- Who is supporting you?
- What data do you need back first?
- Whose responsibility is it to make sure you are back in business?
In a nutshell, that’s Backup and Disaster Recovery planning. It’s the security of knowing that whatever happens, you will be able to restore your crucial information quickly and easily and your customers or clients will never know there was an issue at all.
It’s knowing that you can circumvent the ransomware or get back that corrupted file or restore your cloud documents to the state they were in yesterday, last week or last March. It’s knowing that you have already covered the cost of lost data, which even for a small firm can run to tens of thousands of pounds just in staff time, and even more in lost customer confidence.
Custodia uses our own data centres, that are so secure they could be armouries (the police come and look at them annually to reassure our insurance company). We ensure that your data stays safe and secure and just to be utterly sure, we use two separate locations as well, both internet-disconnected with no route in for the hacker.
Talk to us about Backup and Disaster Recovery and rest easy knowing we are there to support you in the event of any crisis, big or small. Get on with what you do best and heave a sigh of relief, knowing that not only is your business resilient, but that you can demonstrate to your customers high levels of security, competence and compliance with personal data and first-rate business resilience.
Give us a call, come and have a cup of tea and see how our solution is different. We don’t just do backups, we take care of the Security, Backup, Continuity and Compliance of your business so you can be ready to face the next challenge and sleep easy knowing your essential assets are secure.
Expect the best and prepare for the worst!
Call us today and discuss your backup requirements on 01629 369250.
