Backing up of crucial personal or official data through professional methods is a secured way of protecting it from getting lost. At the time of attacks on the World Trade Centre, about 80 per cent of the businesses lost their data completely and got blown away in the market. Since they did not have backups of their systems and data, many of them could not reinstate their business operations.
Professional backups of systems can be ensured by following these steps:
- A clear, documented backup and recovery process should be put in place.
- Every vital company data and its location should be identified.
- A responsible person should be assigned the task of managing the backup process.
- The entire recovery process must be automated to reduce human errors.
- All critical data stored in laptops and PCs should be backed up on a daily basis.
- Backup systems should adhere to high quality standards.
- The backups should be implemented in a secure and controlled environment.
- Backups should be safely and securely transferred offsite.
- In case of unauthorised data access, confidential data should be encrypted.
