Is Your Backup Data Secure?
Are you protecting your data? More specifically, are you protecting your data backups? One source reports that 30 percent of businesses do not include storage infrastructure in their corporate security policies and procedures. That means nearly one-third of the organizations you and I do business with are not practicing adequate information security. I don’t know about you, but as a consumer that number concerns me.
Our information is becoming more and more vulnerable. For instance, the same source also cited that experts estimated the number of security events increased by more than five times in three short years — and for every single reported incident, four more are said to go unreported.
According to a recent whitepaper from data management experts, there are four key steps to data protection workflow:
- Backup or replication of critical data on another device.
- Removal of replicated data to an off-site location to protect it against man-made or natural disasters.
- Storage of replicated data that both protects and organizes data so that it can be easily and quickly recovered.
- Recovery of replicated data from storage whenever and wherever needed.
In other words, if you’re looking to effectively protect your sensitive data (which, by law, all businesses are required to do), your business must ensure the aforementioned steps are successfully and securely accomplished. However, given the increasing number of security incidents, what your organization is currently doing may not be enough. To be safe, let a computer systems security firm evaluate your backup processes.
One final statistic: The penalties for non-compliance with regulations to protect consumer and confidential data range from $1-15 million in fines to up to 10 years in prison. If those are consequences you’d rather not deal with, contact an information security professional right away.
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