Disaster Recovery and Security Planning for Your Business

Disasters can happen at any time that can cause data loss, whether they take the form of theft, natural disasters, power outages, or ransomware attacks, and your network needs to have the ability to be restored in a timely manner to prevent loss of productivity and business revenue. Many businesses are not sufficiently prepared for the event of a disaster, and so the importance of getting started on a disaster recovery plan is important to ensure your business is protected. In today’s digital world, having a backup plan is not enough. Having your data restored as quickly as possible to prevent business downtime as well as data loss is crucial.

Disaster prevention and recovery planning is vital for all businesses to protect valuable data, especially since almost all business are utilizing technology to run their day to day business. Luckily, businesses can utilize technology as an advantage to create a disaster recovery plan that includes levels of security protection and cloud disaster recovery that stores a backup of your database.

The first step to implementing the right disaster recovery plan is to assess your needs and prioritize your data recovery plan with what is the most acceptable downtime before there is a significant impact on your business. Having a network assessment prepared for your business will allow you to analyze and determine your most critical data to start your disaster recovery planning and security procedures.

Backup Backup vs. Disaster Recovery

Most companies mistakenly believe that having their data backup to an external hard drive or backup software is considered their disaster recovery plan. They are not the same. Data backing up to a software program can fail, as well an external hard drive backup. Most often times the backup fails because there is no administration for a routine check of the backup process, and data restoration is limited to only data and not a full restore of your business applications to prevent any continual downtime. With a disaster recovery plan and procedure, you have the ability to conduct a full restoration test and regularly monitoring of data backup.

Data security and recovery planning can be designed for a business based on availability, redundancy needs, and the ability to continue business operations from an offsite database system in the event of a physical disaster. This plan includes local data backup and offsite cloud based backup. Having a back-up-as-a-service plan through a hosted backup and cloud server has become easier to implement and is more cost-effective for businesses to take advantage of these services to reduce the risk of data loss and minimizes recovery time in the event of a disaster. With these service plans, system monitoring and maintenance are also included 24/7 for data security and disaster recovery services.

Disaster recovery and security planning is an important process for every business to have included with an IT strategy and business plan. Almost all data within a company is critical to operations, so it is important to implement the right solution to protect your company and to being prepared when a disaster strikes.

TaylorWorks, Inc. offers IT consulting services and a FREE network analysis to provide proactive network support and recommendations. With TaylorWorks’ Managed IT Services, we can plan, development, and process a network risk assessment and provide recommendations for customized IT solutions for your business needs. Contact TaylorWorks today at 407-478-6600 for a FREE system analysis..