A study by the Ponemon Institute revealed that 39% of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) did not have a ready incident response plan to address data breaches and cyberattacks. 58% of businesses that participated in another study by the institute said they lost an average of 10,848 individual records over 12 months due to data breaches. 60% of the data breaches were due to negligent employees or contractors. User error, malicious attacks, disgruntled employees deleting critical data, and natural disasters can cause data loss if a data backup solution isn’t present.
Why should businesses back up their data?
Information is one of the most valuable assets any organization can possess in an increasingly digital world, and data loss can result in business downtime as well as financial loss. Ponemon Institute’s 2018 State of Cybersecurity in Small & Medium Size Businesses highlighted that 73% of businesses that did not pay a ransom after a ransomware attack credited their decision to the availability of a full backup.
Cyberattacks are on the rise
No organization is too small a target for cybercriminals. Business-critical data theft, malware, ransomware, sophisticated cyberattacks, and other threats to data make it imperative to have a robust data backup solution that will ensure business continuity and protect the company’s reputation.
Cloud application data is not often natively backed up
A SaaS report by the Aberdeen Group highlighted that 32% of businesses lost data in the cloud. Often, organizations using cloud services are responsible for securing their data, and not having a backup solution covering cloud applications and assets could put important data at risk. As organizations increasingly shift to a hybrid environment with data partly on the cloud and partly on-premise, they should have a backup solution that covers both physical and cloud workloads.
Inadvertent data loss can impact business continuity
64% of the incidents in the Aberdeen Group’s SaaS report were due to user error—47% due to end-user deletion and 17% due to employees overwriting data. Accidental data deletion, unintentional data overwriting, device loss, hardware failures, software issues, natural disasters, and power outages can cause unexpected downtime, resulting in revenue loss. A comprehensive data backup and recovery solution can quickly restore data and minimize downtime.
Increased adoption of telework and remote workers’ demands added focus on data protection
Businesses are increasingly adopting telework and remote work. Business users and employees are accessing enterprise information from their home networks and personal devices. There’s increased dependence on online collaboration and SaaS tools. However, most of these tools offer limited or zero data protection. In such a scenario, accidental or malicious data deletion beyond the tools’ configured retention policy could result in permanent data loss.
Having a data backup, business continuity, and disaster recovery solution becomes extremely important to get back to business without suffering hours of downtime or financial losses.
What should you look for in a business continuity and data backup solution?
Businesses should have a resilient, scalable, and comprehensive disaster recovery, business continuity, and backup solution covering physical, virtual, cloud, and mobile data. The ideal solution will be able to streamline your enterprise’s data protection efforts efficiently.
We can provide your organization with a backup solution that best suits your unique requirements. Loaded with features, our solution:
- Supports workloads on personal computers (PCs), Mac operating systems (OS), virtual machines (VMs), Linux servers, iOS, and Android devices
- Protects data with a remote-wipe function for devices that are lost or stolen
- Secures data on Microsoft 365 applications, including Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint Online
- Backs up data on your organization’s website
- Safeguards information on Google Workspaces business applications and collaboration tools, including Gmail, Drive, Contacts, and Calendar
- Secures onsite and cloud-based backups using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
- Scans all backed up data for malware for security and regulatory compliance
- Offers flexible disaster recovery and business continuity options best-suited to your unique business needs
- Is capable of delivering recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO) as low as 15 minutes.
Need help?
If you have been creating additional copies of your files on the cloud or an external hard drive occasionally, it is time you invested in a more effective backup solution. Ramsey Consulting Services can help you safeguard your business-critical data with a comprehensive disaster recovery, business continuity, and data backup solution. With extensive protection for 20+ platforms, our solution minimizes the disruption to business if the need arises. Contact us today to get started.
