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Have you ever wondered why backup structures are imperative to IT analysts? That’s a good question, with a lot of answers. For this, it is necessary to contextualize the value of the information. If we look at a corporate bias, therefore, companies are formed by data and this goes beyond their size and area of expertise. There is a wealth of information, from the most diverse origins, that build the business and retain customer services.
IT analysts, or security managers, need to be aware of the immense need to establish backup structures. They are vital for storing strategic data, avoiding exposing them to threats that can easily be circumvented.
In this blog post, it will be exposed the main reasons for technology analysts to invest in backup structures, fundamental in a security strategy, regardless of the size or segment in which the company is inserted. Keep reading!
Ensure information
Regardless of the platform or type of backup, backups are essential. This means that the company’s vital data needs to be isolated in a secure environment, with the possibility of having them on hand when the need arises. Control, in this sense, is paramount.
According to the Brazilian newspaper Estadão, the attack on the World Trade Center, which hit several companies in 1993, took 90% of them into bankruptcy. The reason? The vast majority did not have their data stored on remote backup servers, which made it impossible for them to recover from the terrorist attack.
Just a brief idea of a little oversight that may eventually ruin an entire business. Investing in modern and sophisticated backup structures is mainly a precautionary measure to ensure the data and information essential to the organization.
Just a brief idea of a little oversight that may eventually ruin an entire business. Investing in modern and sophisticated backup structures is primarily a precautionary measure to ensure the data and information essential to the organization.
Ensure business continuity
Although the World Trade Center attack in 1993 is an example to be analyzed, there are numerous other incidents and disasters that can hurt a business and bankrupt it – making it suffer the consequences.
Fires due to electrical or weathering, such as winds and floods, can cause catastrophic damages to a company, since it is impossible to control these situations. Therefore, applying efficient architectures and devising effective backup routines is extremely important to ensure business continuity.
Imagine a company that has gone through an incident and lost important data, precisely because it has not invested in backup copies. Customer data, collections, payments and a series of information that directly impact the operation of the business. Without the records to guide the activities of the managers and employees, it is much more difficult to reestablish the operation, after the occurrence of claims.
Prevention for technical or human failures
Some companies – which have not yet invested in automatic backup routines, for example – choose to make manual backups. They are performed by employees, who do the data transfer from computers to other devices, such as an external HD or LTO tapes, for example.
However, this type of procedure can lead to several problems or failures. On the human side, a collaborator may forget to transfer a file on a particular day, accidentally delete some valuable data for the company or even not have enough time to establish a routine. This is very recurrent according to technology company LaCie: they claim that 32% of data losses are referring to human errors.
According to the same research, the index increases when analyzed by the technical side: 44% of the data lost are due to defects in systems or hardware. A great example of this is that of Google, which suffered serious consequences when its webmail service, Gmail, made a software update some time ago. Through a technical failure, countless users lost data, contacts, and e-mails – very few managed to recover them.
Precaution to virtual attacks
As already mentioned, backups are copies of data made as a precaution. This means that in carrying out this routine, one of the biggest concerns of the company is the security of their files and the possibility of rapid recovery in case of virtual attacks.
This is an increasingly frightening reality, especially in companies totally dependent on the internet. Ransomware attacks, for example, have become extremely frequent in recent years. They not only generate loss of corporate data, but also provide unavailability of services, people and resources. Data backup plays a key role in this regard.
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