A data backup, business continuity and disaster recovery solution (BCDR) is an essential part of any business’ IT infrastructure. BCDR providers like BTI protect data from accidental deletion, hardware failure, and even malicious attacks. In today’s digital world, having up-to-date backups is not enough. Your point in time (how recent) recovery and the length of time it takes to resume normal production are more important than ever. With the increasing frequency of cyberattacks and crime, it’s crucial to know your intellectual property, accounts receivable, and even your cloud data and email are backed up and recoverable in a short period of time. Keep reading.
What is Data Backup?
Data backup is more than a copy of a hard drive these days. Today, your data moves and changes constantly across servers and processors around the world. Some data like email and financial transactions may best be backed up in real time and may need to also be recovered in real time. Other data may be “cold storage” that is rarely needed but critical to maintain. Backing up your data and keeping standby recovery systems online protects your business from accidental deletion, hardware failure, and cyberattacks and ensures operational stability and compliance with laws and regulations.
What is a Disaster Recovery Plan?
Disaster recovery is what you do to regain operations after a disaster strikes. Disaster preparedness is part of the plan baked into policies, procedures, and methods determined by your particular disaster scenarios. Almost all businesses must consider cybersecurity, physical destruction or fire, accident, and mistake scenarios where their data could be destroyed or deleted. BCDR solutions from BTI create point in time recovery and recovery time scenarios customized for a client’s particular needs. Business owners, risk managers, and accountants, working with BTI engineers can determine the optimal budget and capacity based on each client’s particular circumstance and needs. There is no one size fits all solution.
Technical Components of Data Backup and Disaster Recovery Plans?
The technical components consider the requirements for system operations during a disaster, the software and backup policies and the budget and risk to the business. A good backup and disaster recovery plan also include the technical actions that need to be taken before and after disaster strikes as well as a testing plan to ensure that both the plan will be effective if/when disaster strikes. In addition, data classification and encryption are taken into consideration as part of the plan.
To make sure your BCDR plan is effective you may want to work with one of the cybersecurity frameworks provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). These frameworks will provide you and your IT team with a step-by-step guide to ensure that your company is following the best cybersecurity and data protection practices.
Are you having trouble choosing the right framework for you? BTI can help!
BCDR and Cybersecurity
Cybercrime is on the rise. Every day, CISA reports on new breaches and vulnerabilities. In most businesses, the number of vulnerabilities discovered by BTI engineer assessments exceed 10X the number of employees. In the event that cybersecurity preparedness and response fails, BCDR may be the last hope of recovering uninfected or corrupted data. Most cyber insurance plans now require some sort of BCDR and won’t pay benefits for lost data without one.
Of note, if you want thorough protection against cyberattacks you need to implement additional cybersecurity practices including employee training, phishing protection, penetration testing, and more. In addition to the entire cybersecurity service portfolio, BTI provides converged security implementation and security integration between both cyber and physical security systems like access control, alarms, and video surveillance.
BTI: The Converged Security - Both Cyber and Physical Security - Provider Near Me
Now that you know the importance of BCDR, why are you waiting to implement the right solution for your business? Here at BTI, we can help you create the BCDR, physical security, and cybersecurity plan that fits your specific needs. Contact us now and discover how we can take your IT, communications, and security to the next level!
