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How To Prevent Data Loss In Your Business?

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How To Prevent Data Loss In Your Business?

by Bobbi Marin, California Business Journal
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Since businesses are more reliant on technology and store their data digitally, data security is becoming increasingly important. Digital transformation is rapidly taking place worldwide, and with that, every company is storing its sensitive data, including its recording, customer information, employee information, and business plans, digitally. Nowadays, data is one of the most valuable things in the world since it holds the key to so many things.

With such rapid digital transformation, security breaches are also becoming common, where hackers want to exploit the data and gain money in the form of ransom. Apart from security breaches, data loss can also occur due to various other reasons, such as corrupted data, human error, damage to the hard drive, etc.

Whatever the reason for data loss may be, there are always ways available by which you can protect your company’s data and prevent data loss. Continue reading to find out how you can prevent data loss in your business:

Use Cloud-Based Storage

You never know when the storage devices or servers might succumb to mechanical failure, human error, or natural disaster that can cause loss of importance, but there is a very easy way to prevent all of this and protect your data, and that is using cloud-based storage. If you haven’t already integrated cloud-based storage into your business operations, you could lose important data at any time. The cloud is now so widely used that we even see its usage in different games like Solitaire to save user progress.

Using cloud-based storage can help you keep your important documents, applications, and data safe all the time. Data stored on the cloud is accessible all the time on all of your primary devices, and the cloud is less vulnerable to mechanical failure or natural disasters. Even if a mechanical failure does occur, you won’t lose your data. You also get the unmatched flexibility of the cloud that allows you to access your data from any device through the internet.

Have A Data Backup Plan In place

Having a data backup plan in place is the most important measure that you can take to prevent data loss. For running any business or startup, data management is vital nowadays. Although a proper data management plan can be a time-consuming and challenging task to deal with, it is certainly worth it. When there is a system in place that can store, protect, and back up your company’s data, you can rest assured that your company won’t succumb to any kind of data loss.

A data backup plan is also useful in case a cyberattack occurs, and all of your company’s data gets locked by ransomware. In such a case, you can always get your data backup and resume your company’s operations through the backup.

Depending on your company’s data, you should include a combination of physical and cloud backups along with automated processes that can perform backups at regular intervals. This can take some time but it prepares your business for the worst-case scenario.

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Prevent Physical Damage

Physical damage can be another reason that can lead to some of your company’s data getting corrupted and damaged. Everyone knows this, liquids and electronic devices don’t work quite well, and it should be made sure that all employees in your office don’t handle their computers and drink liquids at the same time. You should have separate areas in the office where your employees can take little work breaks away from their computers to prevent any damage that can be caused by spilled liquids.

Such areas provide a place where your employees can go to get away from computers for a while, talk with each other, play a game of Spider Solitaire, and enjoy their favorite drinks/food. This would keep the employees suitably refreshed and also prevent physical damage to the data on the computers.

Avoid Poor Security Practices

Poor security practices at the office and in your business could also be the reason why your company can lose data. Viruses, malware, spyware, and ransomware have become major risks for companies. Hackers employ all sorts of techniques and shenanigans to steal, destroy, or encrypt data. If you don’t take strict security measures and engage in stringent security practices, you invite hackers to steal your data.

Always make sure that the operating system, software, and applications you are using are up to date with the latest security patches, use antivirus and malware protection software on all devices, use a strong firewall, and encrypt your data so that no outsider can access it.

Have A Solution For Power Outages

Power outages because of natural disasters or problems with the grid station can also lead to data loss. A power outage can cause all the devices in your office to shut down unexpectedly, and this can cause the loss of important data. If devices don’t shut down properly, they are prone to breaking down.

In addition, hard reboots and power outages can reduce the lifespan of a hard drive. Therefore, to prevent data loss in this way, have a plan for power outages that can prevent improper shutdowns.

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