Data threats have evolved - Why hasn’t your backup?
Why Businesses Should Evolve Their Backup Strategy to Seccom Global’s Cloud-First Model, powered by COVE - ditching outdated backup methods.
Data will always be one of a business's most valuable assets. As cyber threats grow in complexity and data volumes continue to rise, ensuring robust data backup is crucial – however many businesses are still using outdated methods that, when it comes to the crunch, may fail them when they most need it! We so often see Cyber resilience and technical efficiency at war.
A good backup and recovery strategy is not only an important part of any Business Continuity Plan, it is one of the Australian Government’s Essential 8 cyber security components – however, traditional on-site backup solutions are increasingly being viewed as outdated and inefficient.
IT professionals have relied on server image backup for decades, but it’s not the most efficient way to work, and comes with resource efficiency downsides.
The full-image approach consumes a lot of network bandwidth and storage space by backing up and storing data that isn’t needed—and can take so long to complete that you’re limited to one backup per day. This outdated method has real business costs, and can lead to wasted staff time and storage costs.
Let’s look at three (3) reasons why businesses should evolve their backup strategy to Seccom Global’s cloud-first model, powered by COVE.
1. Efficiency, Scalability and Flexibility
Traditional backup solutions often require businesses to invest in physical hardware, which can become outdated and requires regular maintenance and patching. Cloud backup, however, offers unmatched scalability and a reduced TCO. As data grows, businesses can scale their cloud storage without worrying about physical limitations or costly upgrades, making it a more cost-effective and flexible solution.
In addition, the way the solution processes data changes from inside the disk image, the change rate between incremental backups is dramatically lower than with traditional image-level backup—60x lower.
2. Enhanced Cyber Resiliency – because Recovery is everything!
Seccom Global’s cloud-first backup strategy ensures that data is stored off-site, making it immune to local disasters like fires, floods, or hardware failure – it also removes backup copies from the network attack surface and isolates it. The solution provides immutable, air-gapped copies and encryption of your data in transit and at rest, held in certified Data Centres in region for compliance – all without the added expense.
Cloud backups also enable the ability to scale up or down, and provide quicker recovery times – both minimising downtime and ensuring that businesses can continue operations even after a data loss incident without the need for extended offline periods.
3. Reduced IT Overhead
Managing on-premise backup systems can require substantial IT resources, including hardware purchase, management, software maintenance, and manual interventions. It also requires the guesswork involved in trying to predict the amount of storage to sufficiently get the business through the next three years, or beyond, resulting in expensive lessons if the guesswork is wrong!
Seccom Global’s Cloud backup solutions are subscription-based, with little upfront costs, making them more cost-effective than maintaining an on-premise backup system. There’s no need for capital expenditures on hardware or energy costs to run servers. Cloud backups allow businesses to pay for only what they need, making it a more efficient use of resources.
By adopting a cloud-first backup strategy, businesses can ensure their data is protected, scalable, and easily recoverable while reducing costs and IT burdens. Transitioning to a cloud-first approach enables companies to stay ahead of the curve in a dynamic technological and regulatory landscape.