Keeping your Business Information Secure - Backup Systems

Nearly all businesses depend on their computer systems to function from day-to-day, and that's why it is so important to make sure your business information is secure.

Without adequate backup systems and procedures in place, you and your business may be exposed to significant risk in the event of data loss.

Small to medium-sized businesses do not usually have IT staff on site, so unless the business operators are technical gurus, they can be especially vulnerable!

What important information does your business have?

Take a minute to stop and think about how your business would continue to function if you suddenly lost access to your:

• Email
• Accounting data
• Customer lists
• Business letters and quotes
• Calculation/manufacturing sheets
• Advertising and promotional documents

In fact many businesses would be OUT OF BUSINESS if their computerised information was lost.

How can you lose your business information?

Unluckily, you could be the victim of malicious damage by a disgruntled employee (or someone else with access to your computer) or the target of a thief.

Notebook (laptop) owners who travel will know that they are exposed to a very high risk of losing their computers.

For computers that remain happily in the office, some recent studies on business information loss show:

How can you back up and secure your business information?

If you only have a small amount of business information, you can make a local copy of it on a removable device: a USB “key”, CD, DVD, removable hard drive or a tape. In order to minimise the theft, malicious damage and disaster threats, you should keep the backed up data in a secure location off‑site.

To minimise the human error and software corruption threats, you need to take care about what particular data is backed up, and what measures are in place to ensure that backed up information can be restored properly. Data restoration must be tested regularly.

How can Backup Systems help you?

Backup Systems is a Sydney-based company that provides a highly reliable, secure, easy-to-use offsite data backup and recovery service to solo business professionals and organisations of any size.

For businesses like yours that don’t have dedicated IT staff on tap, and business owners who want the benefits of a fully managed backup service, we provide:

Advanced technology

Locally developed systems based on the latest security techniques, with exceptionally easy-to-use backup and recovery self-service screens;

Rapid and reliable data recovery

Replacing uncertain recovery processes (from tape or local media) with fast, reliable data restoration through simple self-service;

Application-specific expertise

Specialised, efficient methods to back up email systems, data bases etc.;

Off-site and online data protection

Using strongly encrypted web connections to our Class 1 secure data centre;

Around-the-clock monitoring and management

All backup activities are continually monitored by our systems administrators;

Cost efficiency

Replacing the capital costs of local tape drives and storage media with a low monthly charge.

Don't let your business be exposed to risk from computer loss, hardware failure, human error or virus attack.

Call Backup Systems now on 1300 30 88 97 or visit our website: www.backupsystems.com.au

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