Best Practices for Preventing Data Loss
Establishing a comprehensive policy on data backup and security is one of the most important IT challenges businesses face today. Still, many SME’s still underestimate the importance of this, leaving their data – and hence their entire business – exposed to the consequences of data loss.
The data that resides in your applications is a high-value and time-sensitive corporate asset. Unfortunately, there are numerous threats to your data that occur more often then you might expect:
- Hardware failures. The most common are computer or disk crashes. Causes range from random failures to accidents like spilling water onto a server.
- Site disasters. These range from high-profile disasters like fire or earthquake to more mundane occurrences like power surges, water pipe breaks or virus attacks.
- User and application errors. These encompass everything from accidents like incorrectly upgrading the operating system to malicious acts like deleting files or introducing viruses.
The first step SME’s need to take when protecting their mission-critical data is develop a Disaster Recovery Plan. To find out how you can successfully do this, download the complete “Best Practices for Preventing Data Loss” paper here.
