Having a singular platform for collaboration and teamwork means that the IT department at gaming-laptop company, Razer, can empower their people. Razer wants their employees to do their very best work at a very high standard. That means they need to communicate and share files easily.
At Results Matter Cloud Services, we know how to help you plan and adopt the collaboration tools you need to modernize your workplace and achieve more with teamwork. Contact us today to learn more.
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Cyber security issues were more severe than last year. The number of attacks and breaches increased as did the tools and processes for defending against them.
The number of police-reported cybercrimes in Alberta has increased by 185% between 2014 and 2017, according to a recent Statistics Canada report. This represents the largest increase in Canada.
Here are some of the numbers for 2018:
Marriott Starwood Hotels reservation system, personal information of 500 million customers over four years
Bell Canada hackers accessed personal information of around 100, 000 customers
Bank of Montreal and CIBC’s Simplii Financial were hacked
Ransomware attacks on the municipalities of Wasaga Beach and Midland, Ontario, along with Mekina, Quebec
More challenges require us to adopt multiple tactics.
Have a Plan: Know how you will recover from ransomware because we are all targets.
Create a Security Culture: Make security a core value. Building security in at the start, leaders that are engaged, and holding teams accountable for compliance are part of creating the culture.
Adopt MFA: Multi-factor authentication is needed beyond more than just VPNs and privileged accounts.
Use a Password Manager: This will ensure unique passwords across platforms and ensure business credentials are different from personal ones.
IT and Business Aligned: Ensure the team managing your IT security has solutions aligned with the RTO (recovery time objective) and RPO (recovery point objective) that meet your business needs.
We have to fight against complacency and keep working at it.
The head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has urged organisations to ensure they understand cyber risks as a survey reveals mid-sized firms have inadequate cyber protection. MSP in the UK warning that investments in a security and information event management (Siem) system, without dedicated team to respond is inadequate.
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Making sure your business can continue operating in case of a disaster is just as essential to small businesses as it is to the largest enterprises. For that reason, business continuity using data backup is an essential solution that small businesses should deploy.
Data backup solutions come in all different flavors. Cloud-based solutions are increasingly popular, but they provide only a partial answer. On-site solutions also have their weaknesses.
The answer is a hybrid cloud. It provides the best of all worlds: you can recover data swiftly from a local device for the most common causes of data loss, but you have all your data safely stored in the cloud for more extreme events in which the local device is destroyed or unavailable.
Executive Summary
Small businesses in general don’t have the same IT budgets and staffs as larger enterprises. Yet just like larger organizations they need to protect their data and make sure they can get back to business rapidly after a disaster or other event that compromises their data and systems.
We will discuss what’s at stake when it comes to not just protecting, but also managing, your data (hint: your business). We’ll explain why it’s important to think in terms of business continuity rather than simply data backup. And we’ll look at how to calculate the all-important Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) so that you can get what you need from your business continuity vendor.
Small businesses in general don’t have the same IT budgets and staffs as larger enterprises. Yet just like larger organizations they need to protect their data and make sure they can get back to business rapidly after a disaster or other event that compromises their data and systems.
We will discuss what’s at stake when it comes to not just protecting, but also managing, your data (hint: your business). We’ll explain why it’s important to think in terms of business continuity rather than simply data backup. And we’ll look at how to calculate the all-important Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) so that you can get what you need from your business continuity vendor.
Data backup versus business continuity: what’s the difference?
Although overlapping, these terms represent uniquely different mindsets when it comes to data protection.
Data backup answers the questions: is my data safe? Can I get it back in case of a failure?
Business continuity, on the other hand, involves thinking about the business at a higher level, and asks: how quickly can I get my business operating again in case of system failure? Thinking about data backup is a good first step. But in case of failure, you have to get that data back and restore it quickly enough so your business doesn’t suffer. For example, if your server dies—and remember, hardware failure is the No. 1 cause of lost data—you wouldn’t be able to quickly get back to work if you only had file-level backup. For you to start working again, your server would need to be replaced, all software re-installed, data re-installed and then the whole system would need to be configured with your settings and preferences. This process could take hours or even days—and in the meantime, your users can’t get their jobs done.
When comparing vendors for a backup solution, small businesses say that reliability (33 per- cent) and price (29 percent) top the list of factors that drive their choices. But they should consider other factors as well.
Superior Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) — Think in terms of business continuity rather than simply backup, and calculate how much downtime your business can endure and still survive (RTO) as well as how much data you can afford to lose (RPO). Choose a vendor that can guarantee top RTOs and RPOs.
Hybrid cloud backup—As discussed above, taking a hybrid approach fixes the vulnerabilities that a cloud-only or local-only solution possess.
Image-based backup—Make sure that the backup solution takes images of all your data and systems, and doesn’t simply copy the files alone.
Instant local and off-site virtualization.
Screenshot backup verification. What good is a backup if it’s not working?
Images saved as VMDK for faster recovery times.
For more information contact us by e-mail or call us at 403-455-5969.
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