WOWzer Backup and Restore encourages businesses of all sizes to assess their current cloud data protection procedures and have robust backup tools in place for your business financial applications. In a survey by Rewind of over 630 Software as a Service, (SaaS) users across a mix of industries found that 40 percent have lost data stored in their online tools. Which may explain why many large companies are moving some of their data back to traditional storage media. But you may not have to, keep reading to learn why.
Cloud Benefits
Why did you move some of your business functions to the cloud, was it the massive cost savings? How about the easy access? Or maybe just so you could have greater functionality. Whatever your reasons, you must invest some of the cost savings back into security, your cloud services can be just as vulnerable as your desktop.
The loss of vital data is not usually on the top of most business owners mind but as people become more aware of potential vulnerabilities, it’s gaining importance. With well over 50% of North American companies using some form of cloud computing in their business, criminals are on the prowl, looking for weak policies and strategies to exploit.
What Does Your Provider Backup?
Many companies are not aware that SaaS providers actively back up their own cloud infrastructure, but they make the account-level, business-critical information available to users on a best-efforts basis. That’s called the shared responsibility model. Once you know what your responsibility is, you can protect yourself.
According to Microsoft; “As you consider and evaluate public cloud services, it’s critical to understand the shared responsibility model and which security tasks are handled by the cloud provider and which tasks are handled by you. The workload responsibilities vary depending on whether the workload is hosted on Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).”
Your Responsibility
The responsibility is always retained by the customer for Information and Data, Accounts and Identities but not solely. Here’s where shared responsibility starts to work in your favour. Your SaaS provider is also responsible for protecting the same things. To what extend is dependant on the company and what standards they subscribe to.
As businesses trust more and more of their data in the cloud with SaaS applications, understanding the associated risks and how to manage data loss becomes much more important. We live in a technology-reliant business environment, having an easily restored backup for critical cloud information, has become absolutely necessary to keep businesses running without massive problems.
A comprehensive backup that allows for quick recovery from simple data-entry error to a massive data disaster, has become essential. What’s your plan?
