Prevent data loss, negative financial impact, legal and compliance issues, reputational damage and stress. PM&A has robust physical and cloud backup solutions for your business.
Our team is here to ensure you don’t lose anything important with the best backup services for your workflows.
It’s been said that in the digital economy, data is the new oil. Businesses of all types work closely with data, which is why it’s so important that it’s always protected.
Smart businesses know the value of their data. They prioritise having enough space to store it securely and ensure no files are lost, even if something goes wrong.
A data backup acts as a safety net - creating copies of your data stored in multiple locations. This way, if the original data is corrupted or lost, can you still retrieve what you need.
Having cloud backup services in place is a pre-emptive move to ensure that both you and your clients have information that is secure, up-to-date and retrievable.
Ransomware protection against malware attacks is an important part of making sure your data is secure. Although Sophos endpoint provides our clients with airtight ransomware protection, backing up your data is still an essential practice to ensure that you can recover from any potential data loss or corruption.
Sophos CryptoGuard technology, which stops unauthorized local and remote file encryption by malicious software. Then it automatically restores data to its original unencrypted state, taking ransomware’s power over its victims away.
Especially when cybercriminals are looking to steal it and make you pay to get it back. Efficient backup recovery means you won't be held hostage by opportunists with bad intentions.
Modern teams comprise a range of tools including office apps, desktops and mobile devices, each of which carries potentially sensitive data, and needs to perform optimally for daily work.
By using a secure server like Microsoft OneDrive or SharePoint, you can free up storage space and upload speeds on your business machines - increasing system performance and saving your files online. Worried about what it will take to access those files (or deleted files)? Don't be, we can help you ensure you have secure and immediate access to anything you need.
Manage your business continuity, compliance and financial risk.
Effective data management can help you keep your business running smoothly and prevent the costs associated with data loss, legal cases and sabotage. It can also help you increase compliance for general business operations and audits. A recent study found that 60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within six months of the disaster (National Cybersecurity Alliance).
Also, one only needs to look at South Africa's data compliance regulations to see that prioritising safety and security is a major consideration for most business types. Make sure you're set up for success and add data encryption to the fold to get a more secure system that not only meets compliance standards but further protects your employees and customers.
One of the biggest unseen threats for businesses is lost data. With backups, companies can save time and money with the ability to restore data, instead of having to recreate it from scratch. Cloud storage pricing is typically reasonable and offers protection against significant future expenses.
In fact, according to a study by IBM the annual cost of data breaches is increasing by 10% a year. In the report, it states that the average cost of a ransomware breach, for example, was over 4 million dollars in the States with similar equivalents around the world. For SMEs, a breach like this can mean a critical hit that ends business operations, temporarily or indefinitely.
In the case of hardware issues, software issues, ransom attacks, and other disasters, businesses that backup their data can recover quickly, thanks to physical and cloud storage. Aside from the value of the information contained in the files, this also prevents teams from recreating data structures and redoing everything from creative work to complex spreadsheets that need to be stored or referenced.
If all else fails, and you experience a data disaster, having backups will ensure you’re up and running again long before any of your competition has the chance to get an edge. It also means you can confidently sell your services, knowing you have the infrastructure to work with clients that require a secure data system.
There’s a variety of data backups which are designed to safeguard your files in various scenarios:
A full backup will make copies of all existing data. This will provide you with extensive data coverage, but does mean a lot of space is needed. Apart from setup, PM&A can help equip you with unlimited storage – meaning space won’t be an issue.
A differential backup will save any information that has changed or has been updated since the last full or initial backup.
Your data is linked to online backup cloud servers, which means remote access from anywhere with internet connectivity.
This is a local solution where data is stored within a physical device, such as an on-site PC or external hard drive.
This solution backs up all Microsoft data from OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint and mailboxes to secure data centres, via an online dashboard. This is also a good way to enjoy hassle-free, unlimited storage and disaster recovery, automatically.
For Servers and Workstations, we recommend Veeam Backup and Replication. Storage Location depends on your needs as a client, but in cases where Active Maintenance is required, we store your backup to a secure server which PM&A hosts ourselves. In some instances, clients backup to Azure Storage which is billed per GB. Some teams opt for USB Hard Drives which they can take offsite on a daily rotation. Either way, backup is required.
No matter your individual or business needs, PM&A can set you up for success when it comes to your data storage and recovery.