As technology constantly builds and improves over the years, businesses and people alike are having to adapt and grow along with it. In order to keep up with the fast-pace changes, ABS is constantly upgrading its systems and processes in order to provide top notch tools and solutions for its customers. That’s simply the ABS Way.
So when it comes to backup and disaster recovery, we have a solution and plan to fit properly with an ever-evolving model.
Here’s how it used to work:
In the past, backup and disaster recovery was more about protecting yourself against that .001 percent of a chance that something substantially bad might happen to your business, such as a natural disaster. Your business would want a plan in place for securing your necessary data if your workspace suffered from a flood, fire, theft, or even a major hardware failure. On a day-to-day basis, your backup and disaster recovery may involve something like recovering a file that was deleted, a relatively simple operation. Overall though, you were protecting yourself against threats of a large scale, that thankfully, tended to be a rare event.
Here’s how it works now:
Today, backup and disaster recovery, while continuing to be all of what it was in the past, has now become even more crucial to the day-to-day operation of a business and the protection of its essential data and files.
While you certainly wanted to get your files up and running as quickly as possible after a major catastrophic event to your premise or hardware failure, the natural timeline was much longer back then.
Now, the growing presence of sophisticated hacking schemes like ransomware have IT companies and businesses on their toes daily. Ransomware is a growing scam that can take a number of forms. Essentially, ransomware is spyware or viruses that get on your network, get into your files and encrypt them, holding your files ransom until you pay the hackers their requested dollar amount to release them. This can cause a lot of headaches and financial woes for a company, especially one without the proper backup and disaster recovery plan and system in place to begin with.
The worst part of all? Anyone can, in a matter of seconds, become the latest victim of ransomware. At any moment you or someone at your company could make the mistake of clicking on the wrong file, opening the wrong attachment, or any other method that hackers can find to steal or hold your sensitive data hostage. Ransomware is also becoming more sophisticated. It can often times be nearly impossible to detect once a simple wrong click has begun the process of encrypting your files before you even know that it has happened to you.
We understand that this can be a bit intimidating, but with the right backup and disaster recovery system in place, your business can get back up and running quicker.
In other words, a good backup and disaster recovery solution makes the routine file level recovery operations, that have been around for many years, faster and more efficient. A great solution provides flexibility to recover files from 1 day ago, 1 year ago, and all scenarios in between. While ransomware will unfortunately continue, our customers can rest assured that ABS has recovery options that make it easiere to get their data back quickly and without having to pay a ransom to a criminal. In the event of a distaster of any scale, our job is to get your business back up and running as quickly as possible, while minimizing data loss. Technology is more essential to today’s business environment than ever before, and it’s still growing. It’s much more than convenience. Your business depends on its cooperation and efficiency, daily.
That is why the role that backup & disaster recovery plays now is so crucial. Not only as a means for executing file level backups, but to have methods and solutions in place to adapt to data security problems of tomorrow. With a backup & disaster recovery plan that you can feel confident in, and an IT company like ABS with the right expertise, we’ll work not only to protect you against disaster situations, but every other threat to your business and how it operates daily.
In partnership with industry leading companies like Datto and Veeam, ABS can provide you with not only the most innovative solutions to secure your data, but to provide peace of mind, as well. Need help? Contact us today to learn more.
