Three Key Components of a Business Continuity Plan

How quickly you bounce back after a disaster may depend on how well you plan before it. Data is one of, if not the most, important resources for any organization. And, protecting it from disaster, whether intentional or accidental, is no longer optional. As we have mentioned in our previous post, keeping an up to … Read more

Five Best Practices for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

In our previous post we defined business continuity and disaster recovery, distinguished between a business continuity plan and a disaster recovery plan, and motivated why you need these. Today’s post deals with best practices when it comes to disaster management and ensuring business continuity. Best practices are those practices that render the best results with … Read more

When Disaster Strikes – Is Your Business Continuity Plan In Order?

Over the course of the next few weeks, we will be delving into business continuity and disaster recovery, what it means (also for your organization), and why you need it. Data loss, whether intentional or accidental, is not only inconvenient, but can have severe financial implications and indeed cost you your business.   Recent statistics … Read more

eBook Launch: A Practical Guide to Cloud Backup

A practical Guide to Cloud backup provides a working guide to businesses and individuals struggling with storing, protecting and managing large amounts of data.  It contains best practices when choosing the most appropriate cloud option for your organization by, inter alia, detailing the types of cloud backups, highlighting the advantages of cloud backup and explaining … Read more

Understanding Hacking Strategies (How Hackers Hack)

The techniques employed by hackers are constantly evolving and so are their tools. Data theft is the end goal for numerous attacks, with hackers seeking predominantly personal data, credentials, and credit card information. In order to steal this data, hackers compromise online platforms such as bookings sites, social media sites and e-commerce websites. It is … Read more

Cybercrime in Canada – Worst Threats Faced by Canadian Business Owners

According to Scalar Decisions Inc.’s 2019 study on Canadian organizations’ cyber resilience, independently conducted by IDC Canada, “[o]ne hundred per cent of Canadian organizations experienced a cyber-attack last year, suffering an average of 12.5 breaches per year”.  The study further indicates that the average cost “per organization of responding to, and recovering from, cyber security … Read more

2019 The Biggest Data Security Breaches…so far

Massive data security breaches have once again made headlines in 2019. At the time of writing, more than 600 million records were stolen from 16 different websites. And, according to Information Age “data breach reports are up 75 percent over the last two years”. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC)’s “2018 End-of-Year Data Breach Report” further … Read more

Crime doesn’t pay, but Cybercrime does. What motivates Cybercrime?

Cybercrime & Hackers ‘More Devastating’ To SMB’s Than Fire, Flood & Transit Strike Combined Notorious cyber crime gang behind global bank hacking spree returns with new attacks The Latest Thing You Need to Worry About Cybercriminals Hacking? Your Voice Cybercrime could cost companies $5.2 trillion over next five years These are only some of the … Read more

Choosing a Cloud Service Provider

In this final instalment of our Cloud Backup article series, we guide you through the process of choosing a cloud service provider. When choosing a cloud service provider, the reliability and capability of the cloud service provider are crucial. A recent study by IT industry association CompTIA found that very few companies conduct a comprehensive … Read more

The difference between Cloud Backup and Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BCDR)

Cloud backup has been discussed in detail in a previous post and can succinctly be described as backing up data to a remote, cloud-based server. As a form of cloud storage, cloud backup data is stored in, and accessible from multiple distributed and connected resources that comprise a cloud. Conversely, business continuity and disaster recovery are intertwined … Read more