Ignore Disaster Recovery For Your Business At Your Peril!
Sometimes known as "business continuity", disaster recovery can be defined as the process of ensuring your business can keep running when faced with a disaster of some kind. These disasters could range from the physical, such as a floor in your offices that affects your servers or it could be virtual or web-based, such as a virus damaging your systems or a hacking attempt deleting your data - it could even lead to you losing all of the data on your customers! As a lot of businesses now rely on their computer systems to simply function this could be very damaging.
Any company that has invested in planning for the worst happening knows that because of their diligence they can carry on during or quickly after such an incident. One example of disaster recovery in action is data being backed up on a disc and kept in a different physical location. Without having a process in place you could end up with problems:
Productivity Decrease or Loss
A "disaster" doesn't necessarily mean that you will automatically lose your data. But if you aren't able to access it for a while you will still lose productive time that could be earning money for your business. Depending on your business you will likely not be able to provide services for a period, which can be damaging.
Customer Trust Issues
Your customers trust you to look after their data, and if you don't you will obviously lose that trust. When the Playstation Network was hacked customers left in droves as they felt betrayed because Sony didn't do enough to protect their data.
Closure
Statistics say that a lot of companies that experience a significant loss of data end up closing because of it!
As you can see, the risks in not having a good disaster recovery and IT security system in place can be catastrophic for a business, and as many problems can be prevented by having these systems there is really no excuse for not performing a security audit and implementing measures to protect your business.
Any company that has invested in planning for the worst happening knows that because of their diligence they can carry on during or quickly after such an incident. One example of disaster recovery in action is data being backed up on a disc and kept in a different physical location. Without having a process in place you could end up with problems:
Productivity Decrease or Loss
A "disaster" doesn't necessarily mean that you will automatically lose your data. But if you aren't able to access it for a while you will still lose productive time that could be earning money for your business. Depending on your business you will likely not be able to provide services for a period, which can be damaging.
Customer Trust Issues
Your customers trust you to look after their data, and if you don't you will obviously lose that trust. When the Playstation Network was hacked customers left in droves as they felt betrayed because Sony didn't do enough to protect their data.
Closure
Statistics say that a lot of companies that experience a significant loss of data end up closing because of it!
As you can see, the risks in not having a good disaster recovery and IT security system in place can be catastrophic for a business, and as many problems can be prevented by having these systems there is really no excuse for not performing a security audit and implementing measures to protect your business.
About the Author:
Keytech Managed Services offer disaster recovery services as part of their wider managed data services.
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