Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Importance Of Backup and Recovery Plans


In the past, backup was made to deal with prolonged outages, equipment failure, occasional virus, and natural disasters. What would it cost your business if you go to work one day and all the computers have been encrypted? Or the server that is responsible for your order processing system is down for five days and the hackers are demanding 50k to get it back up and running once again? 

What do you think your customers will feel if they can’t get in touch with you for a week? As a business owner, when you look at your company, it’s crucial to consider technology not only as your revenue enabler but also as a risk. Breaches, IP theft, and cyberattacks are not just geek issues. They are can easily become your worst nightmares. Small business comprise 58% of malware attack victims and cyber attacks cost a small medium businesses a whopping $22 million on average. Disaster recovery and business continuity is taking on a whole new meaning in the world of ransomware.

Although the cloud offers wonderful opportunities for cloudbased applications, offsite backups, and more, the cloud cannot solve everything. Most companies are not even aware that Microsoft does nto backup their calendars or mailboxes.

These days, MSPs will take the principles behind SOC II and cybersecurity framework into account as he works with you and your business to come up with a straightforward, practical, and real backup as well as disaster recovery plans for not just the conventional physical threats of outages and availability, but the new world of cloud scale and cyber security. The results of a well made and tested business continuity plan takes into account the inevitability of non technical workaround, breach, as well as independent software solutions that will make sure that you are among the 40% that makes it beyond the inevitable.

Training and Compliance


Although there’s some level of mystery linked to the word hacker, hacking a system isn’t rocket science. It can even be done by just an email. The shift from conventional to modern msp involves not only securing systems but also training and teaching end users. Any business’ weakest link is its people. It doesn’t matter how good your email and spam filtering solutions are or your perimeter systems, the threats will continue to evolve and people are going to be the main target to override your security system. Technology service providers and managed IT services could help test, validate, and train your employees so that they understand the risks involved and make sure that the integrity of your safeguards are maintained.

MSPs will provide dark web monitoring as well as automate testing for easily compromised and weak passwords. Credential sharing and phishing will be tested at random and staff trained, scored, and counselled not by the human resource department but by the IT department.

Support From The Cost Center To The Differentiator


Some things will never change, computers fail to boot, printers are going to jam, files will inadvertently disappear, and some power point presentation doesn’t display correctly. You and your business always needs support. A good IT department is results driven and customer focused. Support will not just be about tech geeks fixing issues, it will be about getting the problem fixed as soon as possible on your terms.

Call SpartanTec Inc. in Greenville if you want to know more about business continuity planning, IT consulting, or managed IT services.


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