Data protection solutions are an important component of strategic data resilience planning for enterprises of all sizes. Adopting hybrid architectures and a highly dispersed workforce is particularly relevant right now, as much of the world is working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it also poses many challenges. Any data protection solution must have the ability to secure and restore data from on-premises to the cloud, to remote endpoints, to successfully meet the requirements of RPO (recovery point objective) and RTO (recovery time objective).
If left unprotected, the loss of data is expensive and harmful. Hardware failure, for example, is the number one cause of data loss and accounts for 45% of unplanned downtime. For businesses, its cost can average over $17,000 per minute. This is a bill that no one wants to pay. Understanding an organization’s dependence on data and tolerance to data loss are important principles in driving a data protection plan. The initial step in a data protection plan is to create a business impact analysis (BIA). The BIA is your road map to prepare a security plan tailored to the needs of an organization.
With a robust data protection plan, 96% of businesses can fully recover lost data and resume normal operations without any downtime. But what goes into choosing what will work and what will not? We have informed you of these tips to find the best data protection solution for you and your business.
Know And Understand The Data You Have
To best protect your data, you need to determine the severity of the information you store through your BIA process. First, you will need to gain an understanding of details such as:
- Where your data is kept
- How is it backed up
- Which information is most sensitive
- Why does it need to be kept safe?
You also need to know the goals of your solution, as they may vary depending on the type of data you have. Maybe this is to protect yourself from data breaches, corruption, disaster or loss due to drive failure. You may need advanced data privacy. Is it all of the above? No matter for specific reasons, you need to know and understand your data so that you can provide your data with the proper level of recovery, security, and restoration.
Invest In A Customized, Robust Data Protection Solution
Data protection includes a robust plan for any scenario, including data deletion, disaster, corruption, or ad hoc retrieval requests. At a minimum, your data protection solution should have these:
- Data backup: physical, virtual, cloud, mobile, database and copy data management
- Disaster recovery: synchronous and asynchronous, cloud, secondary and multi-data center
- Long-term archives and compliance: big data and analysis, data warehouse, active archives.
The data protection plan should always include archiving. An active archiving solution reduces the amount of active data that requires daily backups. It is also an opportunity to keep old data online and make it accessible to the end user. If your data has specific compliance guidelines, a collection with WORM (write once, read multiple) capabilities will be necessary.
However, not all data is created equally, which is why optimization is important in pinpointing the exact threats your business faces and the best ways to keep it safe. The velocity requirements of the data are generally associated with the severity of the data.
Ensure Compliance With Data Privacy Laws
Data protection goes beyond security solutions-you also have to comply with data privacy laws such as HIPAA, PCI, SOX, and GDPR. Whether your data security team is internal or outsourced to a trusted security partner, they should know and understand the legal side of data security and Privacy. That knowledge includes:
- Protecting data
- Learning any rules or regulations that apply specifically to your business or organization
- Safety training is required for all employees
- If there is a data breach or risk, or if your business is non-compliant, you should always have a litigation preparation plan with you.
Find A Trusted Partner
From IT teams to DPOs to outsourced companies, trust is important. In addition to knowing the legal side of things, your data protection partner must also have these skills:
- Learn to explain the requirements
- Ability to train employees
- Strong communication
Ability to work closely with the organization’s highest level of staff and internal IT teams
At the end of the day, trust your mind. Even if you do not have a deep understanding of data security, you must still trust your partners and their solutions.
Data Protection Solutions
Solutions do not believe in being vendors for businesses; we act as an integral part of your team. Your goals are our goals, and we will work with you to find the right data protection solution for you and your unique business. In addition, our team is trained in the latest products, services, and industry standards to provide a customized solution to protect your data. Learn more about our approach to data security, then contact us to start creating better, more reliable solutions for yourself and your business.
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