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29/05/2024

If you store data on computers, you should have a plan to reduce the impact of data loss on your operations.

The cost of losing company data can be profound. This could be customer data, financial records, intellectual property, source code or more.

If you are a small business, your IT staff may be able to easily backup your data to an external device or computer.

For big corporations and companies with heavy reliance on their data, your data redundancy plans need to be robust and near perfect.

Reports put the cost of losing data at thousands of dollars to millions.

Managing information security with the cost of data loss in mind is an important task every business must perform. Find out what it may cost to lose your data.

20/05/2024

UniSuper, an Australian company that manages over $125 billion worth of retirement funds for 674,000 people suffered a devastating loss of its data on Google Cloud.

This caused downtime between 2 May to 15 May, as Google Cloud had accidentally deleted UniSuper’s public cloud account. Although the retirement fund company had duplication in two Google Cloud geographical locations as protection against outages and loss, these were also deleted!

Nevertheless, to their credit UniSuper also had backup with another service provider.

What are the lessons learnt?

1) Hire A Cloud Architect
If your company relies on technology so much that failure / downtime will affect your company’s ability to run or provide products or services to clients, then you should hire a cloud architect. Many companies use cloud engineers, devops engineer, network engineer or some other IT professional and skip the planning stage that should be handled by a cloud architect for such a project.

2) Backup
A good rule for business continuity is this – if you cannot afford to lose it, back it up. You can also create local backup and store it securely.

3) Use Multi Cloud Solution
Create redundancies with different vendors. As Mike Gibbs would say, one vendor is a single point of failure.

UniSuper’s implementation of a multi cloud strategy proved to be a life saver that might have spared them from lawsuits and possible bankruptcy.

Conclusion

My team includes experienced enterprise & cloud architects with up to 25years individual experience who meet with clients to understand their business requirements and aims. Traditionally, tech people are trained to solve technology problems and not understand business needs.

Over 50%-70% of technology projects fail. Organisations are spending huge parts of their budget on technology that do not meet business goals, and literally do nothing.

Your existing or planned technology should optimise your teams, processes, and help you earn more.

14/05/2024

Is your company wasting wasting money on unused software licenses? Are your employees underutilising paid software?

Companies (yes even in Nigeria) waste hundreds of dollars monthly on software they do not use. Learn four steps to eliminate software licensing waste without compromising performance or efficiency.

Your company may be losing hundreds or thousands of dollars monthly on unused software licenses. Here are four ways to stop wasting money and remain efficient.

05/12/2022

Have you received an email saying your bank card will be charged for a product or service that you never ordered? This is the Fake Order Scam. You may simply ignore the message, which is the recommended action, or you panic then hurried try to cancel the (fake) order.

If you have opened the email, don't click on any link or give anyone your card details. If in doubt, call your bank.

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07/09/2022

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20/06/2022

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09/07/2021

07/07/2021

Securing your business data with no worries

07/07/2021

Quick Steps to Data Protection
1. Create a unique and strong password.
2. Keep your computer and user account personal.
3. Never leave your computer unattended.
4. Shutdown Your Computer at the end of the day.
5. When accessing data and information that is confidential, you should only use a secure and encrypted connection. Any data you may be accessing can be captured by someone using similar technology.
6. Do not install free software from the Internet as some present a great security risk. If you must make sure it is from a trusted source and is safe.
7. Beware of emails with attachments, even if they appear to be from familiar source.
8. Schedule regular Antivirus Scan of your Computer.

08/06/2021

People often think that data loss is only experienced by large corporations or that it only happens on North America or Europe.

Whether it is due to security breaches, activities of staff, external intrusion, hardware failure or others; data loss is real! It also happens to small businesses in many countries and it can happen to you, with far reaching effects.

You can limit the impact & cost of data loss, by taking deliberate steps as discussed in this post.

Secure your valued information. Managing information security with the cost of data loss in mind is an important task every business must carry out urgently.

03/04/2021

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