A Guide to Data Loss PreventionG O N E !

76% OF ALL DATA LOSS OCCURS DUE TOUNINTENTIONAL OR INTENTIONALACTIONS, NOT HARDWAREFAILURES.

THINK AGAINC H A P T E R ONE

Any business which suffers a significant loss of data is 60% likely to go out of business.Even if you think: “You have “automatic” backups running and the program reportsa backup job executed”.Based on our research, this means that yourbackup is likely failing three nights per month. In somecases, a failure will fix itself, meaning a failure one night will not be repeated the next night. If so, then lucky you.

HOWARDTHE INTERN

C H A P T E R TWO

Imagine that Howard, your new intern, got a temptingemail last Friday and he clicked on a link that infected your entire network with Ransomware. Over the weekend, all the files on your server and external backup drives were encrypted. Now the hackers are demanding $4,000 in Bitcoin.

Without good recent backups, your only option is to pay the ransom. If you’re lucky, you can go back to a backup from a month ago and try to re-create all the lost work from the past month.

FREE TOOLUse this convenient “Cost of Downtime” calculator to determine how much EVERY HOUR of downtime would cost your business.

https://www.ntrusts.com/disaster-calculator/

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A BETTER SOLUTIONC H A P T E R THREEENTRUST’s research shows appliance-based backups with cloud-based remote storage fail only 1.5% of the time (less than once every three months), dramatically redu-cing the chances of data loss.

In the case of a terrible catastrophe where both your server and the appliance are damaged or lost, your data is still safely stored offsite and a replacement appliance can be express shipped to you.

Your data is automatically backed up, both locally and offsi-te. Backups will fail less often (only 1.5% of the time). If a backup failure does occur, and is properly monitored and managed, it will be corrected immediately and less than one day’s work will be at risk.

"SAVING YOUR BACON”CHECKLIST

C H A P T E R FOUR

How safe is your current backup mechanism?

NOTES

Confirm your backup is running to completion and notjust 'popping out the tape.'

Questions to Consider:- How many versions of data do you need?- Do you have regulatory or compliance data retention requirements?- What if an auditor wants to see your accounting files from 1 year ago?- Do you have those or do you only have last night backed up?- Do you sometimes need data from last week? Last month? Five years ago?

Check your logs (or ask your IT company to provide logs)to confirm the backup is successfully running every nightwithout fail.

Confirm the backup is capturing ALL your data not just some folders. One of the most common loopholes in a backup process is missing important servers, folders or files.

Do a test restore of some data to confirm the backup is good. Even a backup which appears complete and appeared to run to completion is not guaranteed to allow you to recover data.

Schedule test restores regularly (for example every 3 months). It’s important that you or your IT company test the backups to avoid surprises.

Consider upgrading your backup plan to a business continuity solution.

Validate you have a retention plan that meets your business needs.

A TRUE STORYBUSINESS CONTINUITYSAVES THE DAY

C H A P T E R FIVE

In the middle of the night, one of our clients received an urgent phone call - a small business owner's nightmare. A restroom on the �oor above their o�ce had sprung a leak, and was �ooding water into their suite. For a brief moment, she began to panic. What would this mean for her business? They had important projects and deadli-nes they had to meet.

Then she remembered they had recently implemented a business continuity solution with ENTRUST.She breathed a sigh of relief and went back to sleep. While building management worked on �xing the leak, her data, and her business was safe. The would be able to work the next day, no matter what the state of their server.

NEXT STEPSSleep Better at Night KnowingYour Data is Safe

STEP 1ROI CALCULATOR

Visit our ROI onlinecalculator and use your own estimates to get a realistic cost of downtime for your business.

www.ntrusts.com/annual-calculator/

STEP 3CONTACTUS

We can help you keep your data protected. Contact us today at:(210) 424.3827info@entrust.us.com

STEP 2CHECKLIST

Review the results of your checklist and see where your data is vulnerable.

ENTRUST invites you to let us examine your backup mechanism and history to show youhow much RISK you've had in the last 3 months from incomplete or failed backups