The digital era has taken our ability to create, store and use data to unprecedented levels. This growth has taken the importance of data protection to truly global levels.
In parallel, the need for new laws on data handling has escalated, a reality embodied in the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) which comes into being in May 2018.
Designed to strengthen data privacy and protection for all EU citizens, the regulations will have profound implications for all firms that deal with the information of individuals living within EU borders. As such, GDPR stands to tighten the digital health of businesses not just within Europe, but around the world and across all industries.
Data recovery is inherently important to the EU’s new data laws, so firms should be making every effort to achieve compliance as the start point for the landmark regulations approaches. Below we take a closer look at how executives can address data recovery procedures.
Establish needs and risks
As the integrity of a firm’s data security acts as a performance benchmark against competitors, it is essential that bosses consider what would happen in a worst-case scenario. How would the business stand up to disaster, and what contingencies are in place to aid recovery?
Businesses of all sizes are susceptible to electrical, hardware and software failures that can ultimately impact the bottom line. Administrators should calculate the maximum amount of downtime that can be sustained before a situation becomes critical to company operations. These calculations should form the basis of a revised data recovery policy that defines how and where crucial resources will be allocated.
System recovery procedure
An effective data recovery policy should be informed by an assessment of the critical levels of your specific data and systems. Basic recovery should back up a whole system, allowing the operating system, application software and data to be recovered in one pass.
Backing up the disk online enables backup frequency to increase, suiting firms with more dynamic data fluctuations. Real-time protection then needs to blend with a tiered recovery architecture to allow more agility on critical systems, saving money and shoring up data protection needs in the long-term.
Continuous Data Protection (CPD) is another method used to completely recover a system which enables a very fast backup across a LAN to a local onsite storage facility and to an offsite location at the same time.
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