Why businesses need to back up

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Rest assured, there is no shortage www.mcafee.com/activate of data loss scenarios out there waiting to happen — and almost none of them has anything to do with the quality of your equipment. Here are just a few.

Ransomware

An employee might click a malicious file downloaded from the Internet or an attachment in an e-mail sent by cybercriminals. Doing so doesn’t just encrypt data on the local machine; ransomware has a nasty habit of corrupting everything that the victim’s computer communicates with (connected network drives, external media, etc.). In theory, paying the resulting ransom demand www.mcafee.com/activate download will return your data. In practice, there’s no guarantee.

Last year, a simple ransomware infection paralyzed theIT sysytem of city administration Baltimore, Maryland, which www.mcafee.com/activate product key, deciding not to pay up, suffered $18 million worth of damage.

Device theft

SMBs often store (sometimes all) business-critical information on the CEO’s hard drive. And it’s a rare and lucky instance if this is www.mcafee.com/activate a desktop in the office. But modern business is all about mobility, so it’s more likely that this drive sits inside a www.mcafee/activate laptop and travels with the CEO to meetings and on business trips. That means it can easily be stolen — from a hotel room, a taxi, you name it.

Overheating

In hot weather, the load on any computer hardware increases, often pushing cooling systems to the limit. Not all manufacturers provide separate ventilation for hard drives, and some even design laptops such that the air flows from www.mcafee.com/activate product key external cooling pads do not reach mcafee.com/activate product key the storage media. That can lead to hard drive failure due to simple overheating. Owners of furry pets are in a special risk category. As the proud owner of several cats, I can testify that my laptop fan has to be cleaned at least once a year or else it’ll overheat, even in the winter.

Workplace revenge

Conflicts at work are hardly uncommon www.mcafee.com/activate. A colleague who disagrees with a

management decision might www.mcafee.com/activate download resign and delete critical information www.mcafee/activate. And the fewer backups there are, the more likely that the sabotage attempt will succeed.

How to store business-critical information

According to  the collegeous , AVERAGE cost of a data loss incident runs to $1.23 million for big businesses and $120,000 for small. Therefore, we recommend:

• Backing up your most important data at a minimum, but preferably all of it;
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• Making at least two backups — preferably  www.mcafee.com/activate one stored on a physical medium at the company www.mcafee.com/activate product key, and the other in a reliable cloud.

Our solution for protecting small businesses mcafee.com/activate product key can back up important data to both local and cloud storage. It also lets you configure automatic backups. You can learn more about Kaspersky Small Office Security.