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eBook Launch: Layman’s Guide to Business Continuity Planning

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Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are key components of an organization’s risk management strategy. It facilitates  critical services to continue during a disaster until normal operations can resume. Layman’s Guide to Business Continuity Planning provides an abridged and easy-to-understand guide to ensure that your business operations continue-, during as well as after disruption or disaster. Part … Read more

File Archiving as a Service: Save backup costs by moving your data to Stage2Data Cloud Archives

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Introducing File Archiving as a Service – FAaaS Most organisations’ data accumulates over time which means much of the data is no longer critical in ongoing business operations. Stage2Data offers a secure archive service where your redundant and irrelevant files are moved from on-premise and safely stored in our private cloud data center. By offloading … Read more

MALWARE MAYHEM: The Current State of the Malware Threat Landscape and How To Stay Ahead

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The malware threat landscape saw many changes since 2018 – traditional threats such as ransomware are still rife, causing damage to organizations and their bottom-line; crimeware (financially motivated malware) remains the most prevalent threat; while threats such as cryptojacking (“the unauthorized use of a device by cybercriminals to mine for cryptocurrency”) and phishing notably increased. … Read more

Press Release: RFNOW Inc. and Stage2Data Announce Strategic Partnership

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New cloud services will benefit small and medium-sized businesses Oakville, ON and Virden, MB – May 15, 2019 – Stage2Data, an elite North American cloud management service provider, and RFNOW Inc., a leading-edge communications company based in Virden, Manitoba are pleased to announce their strategic partnership. The partnership will see RFNOW become an authorized service … Read more

Five of the Biggest Data Breaches of the 21st century

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Data breaches have become a daily occurrence. In this post we detail the biggest data breaches of the 21st century focusing specifically on how big the risk or damage was to the organization, insurers and users as opposed to how many records were compromised. What is a data breach? A data breach occurs when unauthorized … Read more

Four Must-Knows About Cloud Hosting

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Storing and managing information is critical to an organization’s continuity. “Moving to the cloud” is becoming increasingly attractive to organizations, but how many of these organizations really understand the cloud and what such a move entails? Preparing to move to the cloud requires you to have an informed strategy before embarking on this journey. In … Read more

eBook Launch: A Practical Guide to Cloud Backup

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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

2019 The Biggest Data Security Breaches…so far

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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

Choosing a Cloud Service Provider

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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)

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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