Your computer is secure, but Are you protecting your data?
Just do a search on Google on “computer security” and you will be get tons of articles, most of them dealing with how to protect your computer system from Internet threats such as hackers, viruses, spy ware, and so on. For this reason, many people mistakenly assume that as long as their system is protected from the Internet, they’re safe.

While such kind of protection is important, it is often overlooked to protect the actual physical computer and the data it contains. What sense does it make, after all, to protect your system when a thief could break a window and take your computer away.

Now, taking this even further, it makes no sense either to protect your system when the data it contains can be lost due to a virus or hard-drive malfunction.

Let's take a look at the following four diagrams to get a more detailed information on how data loss may occur.

Yes, you need to back up your data!
Backing up your data or making an extra copy of your data files depending on the nature of your business can be crucial. A local backup does much, but it really doesn't protect you from natural and man-made disasters like hurricanes, fires, and such. To protect against a major disaster, you need to keep a copy of your data in a remote location, this can be done safely over the Internet.

Establishing a sound backup procedure takes time and money, but you can rest assured that all time and money spent will be more than repaid should the emergency arise.

If this sounds difficult for you to implement, you may be right. It is not simple enough for the average computer user. We've done this for other companies just like yours, regardless of the amount of computers involved.

We can help you avoid data loss:

• Without any disruptions in your business activities
• Without slowing down your computer
• Making it simple and easy to follow procedures to assure that the automated backup is properly working
• Price effective
• Automated, with minimal user intervention

You are the only one who can decide how important your data is. One way to decide this is for you to determine how long would it take to recreate your data files, if at all possible or to figure out how long could your business operate without any kind of access to your precious data: Invoices, Customer contact information, e-mails, etc. How do we prevent data loss?

• Determine which files need to be backed up
• Automate backup to external drive
• No single point of failure, local and remote backup of the same data files
• Only changed files are backed up
• Yearly, monthly or weekly archive to have access to older version of data files, useful in case of data tampering, data corruption or when main working file has been damaged for any reason