Salvaging Your Catastrophic Data Loss
Catastrophic data loss is a threat to your business! Our experts can help defend against malware, ransomware, and hackers.
No cloud service is protected against catastrophic data loss, which is why we recommend making a copy of your data and storing it securely on your own computer. We can periodically copy all of your data to your computer using our Dropbox desktop app. See also: Backup and sync (desktop applications)
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If your business is the victim of a successful cyber-attack, you may suffer the loss of data or assets, damage to your reputation, and disruption to your operations. Finally, you may incur costs to find and repair the vulnerability that led to the breach.
Cause of Catastrophic Data Loss
The main cause of catastrophic data loss is hard drive failure. You may already be familiar with some of the causes of hard drive failure, including natural disasters, fires, or floods. But there are other, more mundane events that can lead to hard drive failures, such as mechanical malfunction or component failure. And when a drive fails, all data on that drive can be lost.
What may be the cause of data loss is a question that we hear a lot here at Kroll Ontrack. We offer recovery services for lost or deleted files from all kinds of media, from hard disks to USB drives and everything in between. And in our years of experience, we have learned a thing or two about what can go wrong with data. So, let’s take a look at some of the various causes of data loss so we can avoid them in the future.
Risks of Catastrophic Data Loss
This whitepaper explores the risks of catastrophic data loss by examining three essential aspects of data protection: prevention, preparedness, and recovery.
This product addresses the high risk of catastrophic data loss due to human error and/or malicious activity by providing a backup of confidential customer data, thereby protecting customers from data loss.
Dimensional models’ can be easily transformed with simple ‘business to business’ transformations, and effectively exchanged. Another advantage of the ‘dimensional model’ approach is that it brings a higher degree of scrutiny and verification of the data itself. “More complex mappings are sometimes required, but even these are still possible with full automation, helping to drive your costs down.
The Recovery Team is committed to the recovery of Catastrophic Data Loss resulting from a wide variety of threats and disasters.
Conclusion
The best way to avoid data loss is to make regular backups, whether that’s through an external hard drive or an online service like Dropbox. But even with these precautions in place, it’s possible that something could go wrong and your files could be lost. We hope this post gave you some insight on how this can happen, what kind of issues to look out for, and ways that you can avoid a catastrophic data loss from happening to you (as much as possible).