Business operations today have a significant volume of data flow every day, and any level of data loss might hinder operations. Thus, they require a data backup strategy that can safeguard this data. A thorough assessment of the capabilities and current processes of the company is necessary to develop a successful backup and recovery strategy.
The most valuable and exploitable resource for a company is its data. They will be unable to run their operations without it.
Data backup and recovery methods are crucial for protecting information because ransomware prevention strategies alone are no longer sufficient. Investing the time and money to develop a data restoration plan will offer significant returns in the long run.
The organization can avoid operational delays, save millions of dollars in recovery costs, and protect its reputation by maintaining control of the data.
Here are three questions for companies to gauge how well-prepared they are to recover lost data.
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Are There Back-Ups of Data?
The response and remediation strategies are built around this fundamental question – are there backups of data?
Data loss is unavoidable without a backup. Where companies keep their data backup is as important as making copies in the first place. Data storage in the cloud does not guarantee security. Cloud services adhere to the cloud shared responsibility model, where the data is held and maintained by the service, but the IT team is primarily responsible for safeguarding it.
Businesses should maintain at least three copies of their data for a proper data backup. Two copies of their data should be kept, each on a different storage medium or location, and one copy should be kept off-site or in the cloud.
For instance, organizations might keep two copies in the cloud and one on a storage device kept off-site. They must regularly check to ensure the right data is stored; they cannot assume that because they have data backups, all of their important information is safe.
Is There a Recovery Plan in Place?
Businesses risk losing data even if their data is backed up; this does not guarantee that the data can be restored. Companies must have a detailed plan in place to recover their data in the event of a breach.
Businesses cannot rely on a secure transaction if they choose to pay an attacker. And even after payment, even if everything is retrieved, the restoration process is not simple. Along with reinstating the data, IT professionals must also verify all databases and remove compromised files. If businesses don’t have a system in place, restoring data from a backup if they don’t pay a ransom is still difficult.
A good data backup and recovery plan can reduce the time needed for restoration from weeks to just a few minutes. They need to consider three infrastructures here: appliance, software, and Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS), which is an external vendor’s automated, maintenance-free backup and recovery service.
Companies should assess their own skills and risk tolerance while creating a recovery plan.
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Has the Company Put the Plan into practice?
Companies should not expect to correctly execute a strategy without practice, just like any efficient disaster recovery plan.
IT leaders should create the recovery strategy step-by-step, identifying who is in charge of what. To ensure the process works, the security team should run through regular simulation testing with the stakeholders and teams involved. Leaders must adapt when business and technological conditions change. They must set a schedule for regularly reviewing and revising the plan.
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