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Software as a Service Backup Guards Your Data and Your Business

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How do you protect the Cloud data your company uses, transmits and stores every hour of every business day? With Cloud services comes shared responsibility. Popular services including Microsoft M365, Google workplace, Quickbooks Online and Salesforce.com may need added protection, such as Software as a Service (SaaS) backup.  Read on to learn more about SaaS backup and how it can benefit your business.

 

What Software as a Service Backup is and Why You Need It

 

Any business – no matter the size – generates, transmits and stores high volumes of data every day. How will your business protect that data from theft or corruption, and your mission-critical applications from misuse? Software as a Service (SaaS) Backup is a cloud-based way to guard SaaS applications data against data leaks, cyber attack and natural disasters. Cyber threats abound, from business email compromise including ransomware that can steal your data, to bad actors stealing or corrupting data through employee error, or even accidental or unintended deletion. How can SaaS Backup help?

 

Key Features and Use Cases of Software as a Service (SaaS) Backup

SaaS Protection offers a variety of services to safeguard your data and applications, including:

 

  • Compliance Management, to assure that SaaS applications and data meet relevant compliance regulations.

 

  • Strong Security Posture: an overall and ongoing process of assessing the security of data and processes, and managing that security.

 

  • Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Setting plans in place to back up and recover data due to employee error or data exfiltration.

 

Cloud backup vendors offer services for various use cases. For instance, for the many users of MS Office Suite applications like Email, OneDrive and others, vendors can provide the additional backup such applications need. For instance, how will your company restore a deleted mailbox? With OneDrive, additional protection is needed, including independent backup and recovery capabilities. Some services include automation of backup. You will need to confer with your vendor about features you need the most. 

 

What to Consider in Adopting SaaS Protection 

 

When seeking a SaaS vendor, it’s vital to know what is your responsibility versus the SaaS provider’s responsibility. While the SaaS provider furnishes and handles the infrastructure, your company needs to know what data is mission-critical, and what data regulations you need to follow. Not only that, you need clear and well-enforced policies for data retention and management.

 

SaaS Backup offers data safeguards that your business needs. To learn more, contact your trusted technology advisor today.

Make Backup a Key Component of Your Disaster Recovery Plan

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With so many potential hazards–natural and man-made–that can disrupt your business, now is the right time to develop and implement a disaster recovery and business continuity plan. Not only can floods, fires or earthquakes disrupt daily life, they can interrupt your business for  extended periods of time. Also, data can be lost and compromised due to cyberattacks or human error. Businesses that suffer a data loss run the risk of going out of business. A key component of disaster preparedness and recovery is backup– making sure your company’s data is stored and accessible. Read on to learn about the role of backup in keeping your business in business.

Backup is All About Recovery

The purpose of keeping your company’s data backed up is to be able to access it if business operations are interrupted, whether by a natural disaster or a system breakdown. While there are on-premise methods of backup, such as collation or putting the data on tape or disks, many businesses look to the cloud to keep their data available. That way, when on-premise systems are down, files and applications can be accessed without interruption.

Consider Mission-Critical Systems First

What are the functions your business uses most often? How much downtime can your system handle? Are unified communications (phone and email), or collaboration (file sharing, for example) key components of your business? What about customer databases associated with e-commerce? Make sure to back up those applications and their associated data first. Such applications are best distributed among multiple network backbones, and in geographically diverse data centers. This redundancy can allow one system to take up where another leaves off, ensuring uninterrupted access to data and applications.

Test Your Backup Regularly

Once you have your systems and data backed up, test regularly to find any trouble spots that can be fixed before an outage occurs. Testing your backup finds not only corrupted data, but missing systems and files that can slow down the data recovery process. Testing is all about finding potential issues and resolving them before they adversely affect your business.