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Data Protection, Security, and Backup Analysis
More than ever, the integrity, availability, and protection of data are essential to every businesses' productivity, success, and survivability. Rolland IT Advisors can help your company create reliable, centralized, and secure storage solutions, with the level of redundancy you deem necessary.
Did you know that:
- 32% of data loss is caused by human error.
- 20% of small to medium businesses will suffer a major disaster causing loss of critical data every 5 years.
- 60% of companies that lose their data close down within 6 months.
- 72% of businesses that suffer a major data loss disappear within 24 months.
- Insurance policies typically cover very little for recreation of critical data. In addition, the time involved in manual recreation can put an unbearable strain on a business.
- 34% of companies fail to test their tape backups, and of those that do, 77% have found tape back-up failures.
- 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. 50% of businesses that found themselves without data management for this same time period filed for bankruptcy immediately. (National Archives & Records Administration in Washington)
- Companies that aren't able to resume operations within ten days (of a disaster hit) are not likely to survive. (Strategic Research Institute)
Questions to ask yourself, your management, and your IT department (or provider):
- Are your backups secure?
- Is your backup strategy effective, complete, and tested?
- Is your backup strategy performed regularly, in a timely manner, and verified?
- Do you have offsite data storage?
- Do you require live/constant backup and/or redundancy?
- Have you ever tested your backup strategy to see if it's reliable and thorough/complete?
- How long would it take to recover from a data loss? (too long?)
- How secue is your data from intrusion (both outside and inside your organization)?
- How much of your data is carried off-site by employees?
- Is your data accessible from beyond your walls?
- If you have WiFi, how secure is it?
- How often do employees use USB/Flash drives on company computers?
- Have you compared your backup strategy to existing insurance policy coverages? What happens in the event of a loss? What are you actually covered for and reimbursed for? How long before reimbursement?
- How secure are your network systems to intrusion - inside and outside your office(s)?
A complete and thorough analysis of your needs and existing strategy can be performed and tested. Recommendations will be provided upon complete analysis.
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