Back Up and Recovery Archives

15 Sep

Top 3 Reasons for Creating a Business Continuity Plan Now

Why Every Business Needs a Continuity Plan: 3 Key Reasons

A business continuity plan is the blueprint you need during an emergency to keep your business running smoothly. If you don’t already have one, here are 3 key reasons why you should focus on creating one ASAP.

25 Apr

Ransomware and Disaster Recovery Plans

by Trave Harmon

in Back Up and Recovery, Data Security

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Disaster recovery is a fundamental element of good business continuity planning. Business continuity planning refers to the broad range of plans created so that a business can continue to be operational no matter what negative event might occur. Business continuity planning addresses catastrophic events, from loss of a CEO, director, or other principal in the organization to severe natural disasters...

01 Jun

6 Ways to Keep Your Business Online in Hurricane Season 2018

by Trave Harmon

in Back Up and Recovery, Data Security

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Welcome to hurricane season 2018! As many of you are aware, hurricane season for 2018 begins June 1 and ends November 30. What does this mean for businesses? Outages, Internet interruptions, server, network, and computer downtime, all of which can translate into a loss of profits. But there are ways to mitigate and or to avoid these kinds of situations: this...

18 May

How We Deal with Corporate Espionage and Data Breaches

by Trave Harmon

in Back Up and Recovery, Data Privacy, Data Security

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What better way to beat your competition than to know what they are working on and then steal it? What am I talking about? Corporate espionage. Corporate Espionage and Data Breaches Corporate espionage takes many forms, but what we are seeing recently is a tremendous amount of businesses sending in – for lack of better words – spies to their competition and...

04 Jan

Bomb Cyclone 2018: Cloud Services and Mother Nature

by Trave Harmon

in Back Up and Recovery, Data Security

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I am literally writing this blog on January 4, 2018, during what is known as the bomb cyclone. My offices have no power, no Internet; backup batteries have been expended; cellular towers are down. So why am I talking about this on a business blog? Keeping Your Servers Up When the Power and Internet is Down Quite simply is a lesson in environmental...

03 Jun

Website Defense: Is It That Important?

by Trave Harmon

in Back Up and Recovery, Cloud IT, Data Security

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It is what people see, it's what your customers see and it shows what kind of company you are when it comes to security. If your website gets hacked, it shows to potential clients that you are not serious about your internet security and you are a potential risk. Defense One: SSL Certificate Business owners need to secure their website using a...

23 May

Data Breach: Barbarians at the Gate

by Trave Harmon

in Back Up and Recovery, Data Privacy, Data Security

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In the yesteryear of IT technology in order to have a data breach you needed to have incompetence and an angry person. Data networks were isolated or tightly controlled not because of security but because the technology to link them together is very complex and outside the budgets of most businesses. Those years of safety by lack of access are gone,...