Back-up, Security and Anti-virus

Protect your assets…

Your business is valuable and your business information or data is central to that value, loss of data can disrupt business life and destroy business value – whether it caused by human error, natural disaster, hacker, spyware or virus attack.

Your two most important assets are information and time. Lose access to data and you’ve lost time. On average 20Mb of business data takes 30 hours to build and is worth £50,000.

Most businesses backup data using tapes or disks; but is it done daily? Who in the company is responsible for making sure it happens? Are they qualified and is it what they’re paid for? Are tapes or disks stored securely off-site? Will the restore actually work when it’s needed?

Is your system fully protected from virus and spyware attack? Are you using fully licensed business software? Is it up to date?

Here are some sobering consequences of failing to adequately protect your systems and data:

“On average, by the 6th day of a major data loss, companies experience a 25% loss in daily revenue. By day 25 it is 40%.”

“43% of companies that experience a severe data loss disaster, and that have no recovery plan in place, never re-open.”

“The average cost of a virus attack to a UK SME, is £843 with an average downtime of 7.2 hours.”

From a study conducted by the University of Texas in 1987

Make sure you are adequately protecting your IT investment, call us today with your queries, we will be delighted to help.

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