FINAL WORD
Building a robust
backup strategy
for new remote
workers
The new working from home model has posed
a number of challenges to businesses far and
wide. Jay Ralph, Cloud Management Lead,
SoftwareONE, suggests some best practice
approaches to help tackle them head on.
Data is the critical asset for modern organisations, sitting right
at the beating heart of business growth and productivity. As
a result, keeping it secure and having a robust backup and
recovery plan in the event of an IT failure or cyberattack should be
a top priority for all business leaders. The consequences of failing to
do so can be truly catastrophic. Data breaches are estimated to cost
enterprises an average of US$3.92 million and 60% of companies
that lose their data may end up shutting down within six months of
the disaster taking place. Businesses are also facing rising regulatory
scrutiny, meaning the risks of data loss now stretch well beyond lost
intellectual property and revenue.
Now, as great swathes of the population have shifted towards
working from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic
‘lockdown’ and may continue to do so after the crisis is over,
businesses have quickly had to address how to secure their new
remote workers. This is not always easy, especially for those
organisations with a lower level of digital maturity than firms who’ve
already been supporting flexible and homeworking for years. Those
responsible for IT at businesses large and small must also grapple
with an increasingly complex, siloed IT landscape; the number of
hybrid cloud enterprises grew from 51% in 2018, to 58% in 2019.
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