RTO and RPO considerations when selecting a backup solution RTO and RPO: Understanding the definition and difference RTO and RPO – I am sure you’ve had those acronyms thrown at you before. If you’re wondering what they mean, or how they impact your choice of backup solution, read on. Both RPO (Recovery Point Objective) …
Unusual Activity Detection – Identifying and Flagging Security Threats Ransomware attacks have become rampant and commonplace. As a data security measure, many enterprises worldwide have relied on cloud-based backups. However, just backing up data is insufficient to thwart data loss risks posed by evolving cyber threats. The biggest challenge is to detect an attack early. …
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GDPR and Disaster Recovery: 3-step Guide to GDPR Compliance Beckoning the new era of data privacy, General Data Protection Regulation, the first major reform in data protection regulations in 20 years, will now dictate radical changes to the way digital businesses treat the private information of their subjects. In first, the new rules, as directed by …
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Is Your SFTP Server-Based File Transfer Secure Enough? What is secure FTP? Secure FTP (SFTP) is among the most widely used methods for file sharing. It is appealing because it is simple to use and often free or very inexpensive. Over the years, SFTP has come to be viewed as a “good enough” solution for transfer and …
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Encryption Key Management – What You Need to Know Encryption key management is a significantly important data protection aspect to be understood and practiced to ensure critical files are indecipherable to attackers. Conventional file-sharing protocols encrypt data only in transit but not at rest and offer no control over the receiver’s actions. Mere password-protected files and cloud …
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Using Conversational AI to Drive Data Backup Forward It’s hard to avoid the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms in any conversation these days. Every vendor, business, thought leader, and their cousin are talking about it and trying to showcase either how they plan to use it or the importance of AI/ML to the greater …
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Understanding Backup Data Retention I recently spoke to a business that admitted that they have turned ON their Litigation Hold feature in Microsoft 365 to preserve all data forever. They see this as an inexpensive way to achieve ‘backups’. This approach is flawed at so many levels – and it made me realize how businesses could put …
Making Data Protection Cost-Effective A sub-optimal data protection strategy and an ad-hoc backup process can prove to be a business’ Achilles heel. The most common causes for data loss are accidental data deletion, malicious insider deletion, ransomware attacks, and device losses or accidents. Each occurrence by itself has the potential to hamper business continuity, but collectively pose …
Data Resiliency or Data Protection! Which Should You Choose? Data resiliency and data protection are terms that bear a close resemblance and can be easily be confused. While both seemingly achieve the same goal – they serve customers very differently. What is Data Resiliency? Resiliency refers to data’s ability to “spring back” in situations where it …
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How Not to Use Litigation Hold With Office 365 Do not turn ON Litigation Hold on all your email and documents without involving your legal team and thinking through the consequences. After we launched our Cloud- Cloud Backup solution for Office 365, I’ve been having conversations with several customers about the importance of protecting cloud …
Why You Need to Look Beyond Built-in Office 365 Archive Office 365 email archiving Office 365 email archiving may be adequate for basic use cases – but can get overwhelmed pretty quickly. Customers with Microsoft Office 365 E3 licenses and above are essentially led to believe they have an unlimited mailbox size. In reality, they …
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How Safe is Onedrive Against Ransomware Attack? A number of businesses of late have come to rely on OneDrive for Business as their sole means of endpoint data protection. With Microsoft 365 becoming widely prevalent, businesses are viewing OneDrive as ‘free’ endpoint backup. Some have even gone to the extent of discarding their commercial-grade endpoint backup …
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