Secure
online offsite data backup.
If you lose all your data today... will you still be in
business tomorrow?
Protect Your Most Valuable Asset... YOUR DATA!
There is more to safely backing up your
computer data than just making a copy of it somewhere...
Introduction
The amount of data used by today’s businesses has increased
exponentially from just five years ago. Corporate scandal,
international unrest, and glaring security flaws in computer
operating systems and software applications have resulted in
a much more intense and detailed analysis of data as it
enters and leaves the enterprise. Fortune 500 companies have
been vilified in the press for reckless data stewardship,
and in some cases of outright fabrication of financial and
performance reports. In extreme cases, executives are now
lounging in Federal facilities, denying to the bitter end
that they had any knowledge of the blatant misrepresentation
for which they were held accountable. The private
information stores of several prestigious organizations,
some of them very sensitive and personal in nature, have
been lost, misplaced, or accessed by hackers – the details
of the events becoming fodder for an indignant news media.
Corporate America, already under varying degrees of
competitive and performance pressure, is now faced with
compliance legislation and disclosure requirements that seek
to right some of the wrongs done to consumers, investors,
and employees alike. South Africa is closely following this
worldwide trend in data protection systems.
So why backup offsite?
Remote Backup works basically like regular data backup
software, with one important difference. Instead of sending
backups to a tape drive or other media attached to the
computer it is backing up, Remote Backup sends the backup
over the Internet, regular telephone lines or network
connections to another computer safely offsite. It does this
(usually) at night while your computers aren't being used.
It’s completely automatic. In fact, you may even forget it’s
working. Most businesses put their lives on the line every
night and don’t realize it. With businesses depending more
and more on the data stored in their computers, proper
backups are becoming much more critical.
Remote Backup accomplishes several essential steps that are
often overlooked or done improperly by other backup software
- especially in the regular non-automated backup systems.
Backups are done on schedule, reliably. Most businesses
don’t do this. For one reason or another, they don’t keep a
regular backup regimen. Usually it’s because the person
responsible for doing backups (if there is one) is too busy
doing something else, or someone is using the computer when
it’s time for a backup, or they simply forget. Since Remote
Backups are done with automated software usually at night,
when nobody is using the computer, backups are always done
on schedule.
The correct files are backed up. Ordinary backup software is
often installed with a list of files to be backed up. This
set of files usually represents the state of the system when
the software was installed, and often misses critical files.
Further, it often fails to back up files that get added
later. Compounding this problem, VERY few businesses take
the trouble to reset their backup software regularly to
include new files.
The dangers of only having backups inside the company:
- Insecure: Not encrypted
- Vulnerable to Most Data Loss Risks
Environmental (heat, sunlight, moisture, dust)
- Human Mishandling (scratch, drop, lose,
steal)
- Magnetic Damage (monitors, speakers, TVs,
etc)
- Disgruntled Employees, Hackers, Viruses,
etc.
- Theft of computers and hardware
- Fire in the building
- Lighting can damage hardware beyond repair
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EPNETBackup Online Backup Software encrypts its backups
using your choice of eight of the strongest cryptographic
methods in the world for complete security so nobody, not
even EPNET, can read the files.
Finally and most importantly - Backups are immediately sent
offsite and stored safely away from the clients' computers
and their businesses. This is where almost every business
makes its biggest mistake. Even if they do everything else
perfectly, backups are of little use if their building
burns, or they are unable to physically recover their tapes
from the premises. Most companies who do backups leave the
tapes in the building with the computer, where they can be
stolen or destroyed right along with the computer.
Of course, you can see that this would be a problem in a
fire or flood or an earthquake. But it's also useful in
emergencies where businesses are forced to evacuate their
offices quickly. Even businesses that do backups and have
good, undamaged tapes have to shut down. Many go out of
business simply because they don't have access to their
data.
EPNETBackup solves this problem by automatically storing
this valuable data offsite. So, a business can be back up
and running with new computers and their latest data no
matter what catastrophe happens.
Yes but how safe is our
confidential company data that is sent to EPNET?
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