Posted by Gareth Cutter on 27th May 2009 to
Backup Planning 97% of IT security and administration staff in small to medium-sized business face level or falling IT budgets in the recession, putting increased strain on internal systems as companies try to go grow whilst slashing costs. The result is that businesses are becoming more at risk of security breaches and irrevocable data loss in the case of an emergency.
As has been rightly pointed out, security threats do not decrease during a recession; businesses must maintain the same high standard of data backup or face the potential consequences of data loss (which are often enough to drive a business to bankruptcy). With fewer people left behind to take care of system maintenance and security checks after downsizing programmes, more responsibility will be placed on data backup’s shoulders.
Have you checked your systems lately for adequacy? We recommend you do a test run of your data recovery procedure to see if there are any missing files which need to be copied. Make sure that should the worst happen, you at least have a virtual backup of it in a secure storage location. This will help take one load off your IT and administration staff’s minds.
