This week’s Pro Tip is filled with unsettling and haunting terms that would make any business owner quake in their Dockers. We are talking about ransomware, data loss, zero day attacks and data corruption. Imagine if your accounts receivable for the entire year of 2017 or critical client data suddenly disappeared and there was no chance of recovery. What would you do? The solution is so simple that it is often overlooked.
Data backups. Seriously, please backup your data.
As IT professionals, one of the most disheartening conversations that we experience is when a client calls in panic because they have fallen victim to ransomware or experienced a disastrous hardware failure. The first question is always “do you have a backup?” How your company responds to that question can mean life or death(in the form of several thousand dollars) for your business.
We all are familiar with the terms hardware failure and data loss, but what about zero day attacks and ransomware? Zero day exploits are attacks that target vulnerabilities in firmware or software before the vendor is even aware the hole exists. Ransomware infiltrates a network, usually due to an attachment or link within an email, and wreaks havoc. Generally ransomware will attack the most frequently used files(E.g. database files) and hold them “hostage”, promising to decrypt your data upon bitcoin payment.
Are you ready to learn how to best avoid these frightening situations?
Call Pensacola Bay Consulting and schedule a Best Practices Consultation today!