What Happens When You Don’t Have a Disaster Recovery Plan?
The IT Safety Net That Too Many Businesses Don’t Have Disaster recovery planning isn’t just about hurricanes or tornados. It’s about your business being able to keep going—when your office floods, when ransomware hits, or when someone accidentally wipes your accounting system. Most businesses think they’re covered because they have backups. But recovery is about […]
Does your IT plan include EDR?
Today’s threats change too quickly for ant-virus products to keep up. By the time a virus is added to the “bad” list on your computer it has changed to something else to avoid detection. This game of cat and mouse is stacked heavily in favor of the cat! All major anti-virus vendors are now shifting […]
Are you waiting on your MSP to catch up on security?
Many MSPs are struggling to keep up with the security needs of their customers. The volume of incidents, cost of implementing security solutions, and a reactive approach puts a lot of pressure on them. In the meantime, issues pop up everywhere, further reducing their ability to get a plan together. This often contributes to the […]
Do you have a cyber attack response plan?
If your business suffered a (successful) cyber attack today how would you respond? There are no cyber police to call, nor is there a fire department to come put out the flames. A disaster recovery plan is NOT the same as a cyber attack response plan. (CARP) Cyber attacks are happening every second of every […]
Are you in an unhealthy IT relationship?
The IT relationship between business and provider is more important than ever. A healthy relationship generates increased profitability and productivity for both parties. An unhealthy relationship delivers frustration, missed opportunities, and a lack of trust. Most businesses will live with the relationship until a breaking point, usually a ransomware event. The risk of this reactive […]
Workstation recovery is often overlooked in recovery planning
Workstation recovery is the most overlooked part of recovery planning. Recovering all your servers and data without workstations is not useful. This becomes critical as office locations and workstations increase. Reinstalling the operating system and applications for 10 workstations can be brute forced, the same cannot be said for 100. The uncomfortable stares of employees […]
If you think RPO is a football term your business could be in trouble
If you run a business and think RPO means run pass option, your business backup strategy is in trouble. An area of focus we highlighted last week was recovery planning. There are two key concepts in recovery planning. These concepts link directly to the success of your business surviving a ransomware event. It is important […]
Don’t Wait Until the Switch Dies…
The basis for technology is the network, which affects EVERYTHING. Switches historically have only been replaced when they physically died, and firewalls have been kept around as long as the firmware can be updated. In today’s world, that mentality needs to be revisited. The amount of data being pumped through our corporate networks has increased […]
Hard Drive Recovery…
“Lost Data Should Be a Thing of the Past” Data is the lifeblood of all businesses today, without it businesses cannot function. The moment you find yourself sitting at a search box typing in, “hard drive recovery” is the day you realize that you really didn’t have a good data RECOVERY plan. Let’s talk about […]