Cloud Backup and Your Disaster Preparedness Plan

 

In a world of efficiency, data, and connected everything, business continuity in the face of the unexpected has become far easier to achieve. But if you want to be as resilient as the best companies in the world, you will need the technology behind your organization to make it happen.

Disaster preparedness is something that many small businesses are, well… unprepared for.

Cloud backup can become a pillar of your disaster preparedness plan, ensuring that you can recover quickly when the unexpected occurs.

Why Your Organization Needs Backup and Disaster Recovery for Online Assets

Communication and data transfer are most commonly achieved online in today’s business landscape. Even for a small or medium-sized business, this is true. Look at your website and all the information it holds. Your customer records, or at least an aspect of them, are likely stored online and attached to your website database. The information you store on and around your website isn’t just data, it’s what your company uses to achieve its daily goals.

If your online presence is central to your operation, then your operation is also exposed to inherent risks including…

      • Ransomware, viruses, and malware.
      • Human error.
      • Unauthorized access and loss of data.
      • Hardware failure.
      • Natural disasters.

There are ways you can mitigate some of these risks. With the right hosting provider, you can get enterprise-grade security solutions that help to safeguard your data. But things can still go wrong.

If you want to be sure that your online presence is protected, you need to do more than just secure it. You need to back it up.

Cloud Backup for Dedicated and Virtual Private Servers

Your dedicated or virtual private server can be integrated with a powerful cloud backup and disaster recovery platform, offered by HostRound, and powered by Acronis technology. Continue reading Cloud Backup and Your Disaster Preparedness Plan

Why SSL is vital for your website

Security Sockets Layer or SSL forms backbone of a secure Internet. It protects all sensitive information as the latter moves across the computer networks of the world. It is vital to protect any website even if the site is not involved in managing sensitive information. SSL offers data integrity, privacy, and critical security for not only websites but for the user’s personal information as well.

 

The principal reason SSL is utilized to keep sensitive information safe when it is sent across the Internet in an encrypted form so that only the recipient can comprehend it. There is a good reason for this. Information sent through the Internet gets bounced from one computer to another until it reaches the destination server.

The computers that are involved in the process could view credit card numbers, passwords and usernames along with other sensitive information in case the message is not SSL certified. When an SSL certificate is present, the information becomes illegible to any person or entity except the server where the information is being sent. Identity thieves and hackers thus do not get access to the information. Continue reading Why SSL is vital for your website