Be prepared against data loss and data theft.  March 31st is the day to back up and better protect your data.  Are you ready?

Why Should I Backup?

Losing your files is way more common than you’d think.  One small accident or failure could destroy all the important stuff you care about.  Did you know…

  • 21 % of people have never made a backup1
  • 113 phones lost or stolen every minute2
  • 29% of data loss cases are caused by accident3
  • 10% – 20% of consumer PCs encounter malware in a given year 4

3 Tips for World Backup Day

  1. Automate Your Backups
    Don’t spend time manually backing up your workstations and network devices. Automating data backups ensures that backups are performed regularly, eliminating the risk of human error or forgetfulness. It also ensures compliance with pertinent data security regulations, saving time and money. However, it’s a good idea to check regularly that automated backups are running as scheduled, ideally frequently.
  2. Test Your Backups
    Testing data backups ensures that the backed-up data is complete, accurate, and can be restored successfully. This helps to prevent data loss and ensures business continuity in case of an unexpected event. Regularly testing backups helps identify any issues with their backup systems, such as software or hardware failures. It also is a critical component of disaster recovery planning. It helps organizations identify gaps in their backup and recovery processes and refine them accordingly.
  3. Protect Your Backups
    After properly backing up all your data assets, be sure they are protected. Treat backups carefully and make sure they are at the very least password protected or, even better, have multi-factor authentication (MFA) configured. Give the backup or disaster-recovery systems an alternative set of credentials (not user or system administrator) to use.

World Backup Day serves as a valuable reminder of the importance of data to successful business operations and securing it by creating backups. With these three tips and best practices, your organization’s data will be safer and better protected from catastrophic data loss or malicious hackers.

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1 Backblaze – State of Backups 2021  2 Kensington Study, 2013 3 Ponemon Institute, 2013  4 Dataprot, Malware Stat. 2021