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Technology alone won’t save you when disaster hits. Even the most advanced IT systems can fail if employees don’t know their roles or communication lines crumble under stress. In this post, we explore how people, processes, and clear communication strategies elevate disaster recovery from a mere technology checklist to a robust, organization-wide discipline.

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Once you recognize the hefty toll of ignoring disaster recovery, the next logical step is to build a resilient IT infrastructure. In this post, we explore strategies—from robust backups to cloud-based failover systems—that ensure your business can bounce back quickly when disaster strikes.

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Natural disasters and disruptive incidents don’t discriminate based on company size. Yet many small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) still don’t have a solid disaster recovery plan. In regulated industries like finance and healthcare, the stakes are even higher. In this post, we explore the real costs of ignoring disaster recovery—and why proactive planning can be the difference between resilience and ruin.

A good business is always prepared for a breach or an attack on its IT systems. To ensure maximum security, a routine security audit should be conducted on a regular basis. An annual security audit prevents the chances of data breaches by ensuring you have the proper protections in place and that they are working as you would expect in the case of an attempted security or data breach. You can have a strong business or even extra security detail at every entrance, only to have one cyber-breach knock you flat.
So how do you avoid being compromised? The easy answer is to ensure you conduct a regular security audit. This will help to protect your business information, credit card information, passwords, and customer information – keeping you locked down and secure. Here are a few reasons why your business needs an annual security audit:

Regardless of the size of your business, today’s digital climate involves risks. In fact, smaller and mid-sized companies are open to more threats due to lack of protection and know how. Cyber security is a critical part of managing those risks and taking the necessary steps to protect your assets. It pertains to all the IT measures needed as preventative measure against cyber risks. Cyber risk is any risk of disruption, monetary loss, or reputational damage of an organization due to an IT system failure. Before stepping into the cyber security context, one needs to come to terms with the dynamics of the digital era and the highly vulnerable virtual environment of today.  

Data backup and disaster recovery are two different procedures. Data backup is routine; disaster recovery is (or should be) a rare event. Indeed, by backing up critical business data, businesses make the first step to successfully recovering from a network disaster.