Cyber attacks is one of the greatest threats to small and medium companies in a modern business world. It is becoming more frequent, are more complex, and can have devastating consequences.

Large enterprises are aware of the value of their data and that is why most of them are investing in cloud backup services to make sure that data is always recoverable. They also keep copies of their data in different locations to allow them to fail over in case of a system failure. An advanced encryption is also implemented to secure their sensitive data. This makes them a hard target for cyber criminals.

On the other hand, small and medium enterprises have fewer cyberdefense systems, less money to invest in threat protection, and more often than not has no back up service to recover their loss data. Considering this very limited resources, small and medium businesses tend to be more vulnerable to cyberattacks than larger enterprises.

SMB’s need to develop Disaster Recovery Plan in order to quickly mitigate the effects of a cyber-attack or prevent a threat. Is your business ready for the worst? If your business has no disaster recovery plan in place, then today requires that you plan ahead, be prepared, and defend your business from a cyber-attack.

A Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) is a set of procedures to recover and protect business IT infrastructure and ensure business continuity and diminish data loss amidst a cyber-attack or other compromising situation. Disaster Recovery and business continuity planning are integral parts of the overall risk management of a business. An owner who fails to have a disaster recovery or business contingency plan may be putting their business into a huge risk such as complete data loss, business interruption, loss of customers, and financial loss.

Business need to be prepared before a disaster attacks. Here are some of the preventive measures to take:

1. Know the Benefits of a Cloud Backup. Onsite servers and external hard drives can fail unexpectedly, not to mention, can be stolen. Backup is meant to protect your data from the unexpected so why choose a medium that is vulnerable to disaster? Cloud backup is the most secure backup for every business, offering the most advanced data security capabilities, including sophisticated end-to end encryption that protects your data as it moves from laptop and desktops to the cloud backup. It also provides continuous availability and virtually disaster proof.

2. Ensuring you have an automatic backup. Manually backing up your data is a big inconvenience and an effective risk management strategy does not rely on manual activity. Disaster recovery plan should start with backup that is automatic and continuous. Automatic backup gives you assurance that every version of every file is always backed up and recoverable—without frustrating your employees and slowing productivity.

3. Speed up the recovery. Recovery should be the top priority of your backup solution. It should be designed to give you the fastest restoration. Advanced backup solutions offers features to speed up the restoration process.

Understanding the threats and what cybercriminals are after is essential to building cybersecurity defense. Knowing your enemies, helps defeat them. In developing a cybersecurity strategy, it is important that you educate your employees. Implementing an advance tools like cloud based security solutions for data protection. More importantly, invest in a Managed Security Service Provider with expertise in cybersecurity.

Cyber-attack is a very real threat to small and medium businesses. SMB’s are often the target of cyber attack and the results can have a devastating impact to the business. No business, however large or small, is exempt from becoming a target. Improve your cyber protection and reduce the cost of cybercrime to your business by implementing a disaster recovery plan. Need help in creating your own Disaster Recovery Plan, contact Motionwave Technologies today.

ACORN is a helpful resource to report a cybercrime. They also provide basic education to assist Australian businesses and individuals of the awareness of cyber threats and cybercrime that can potentially harm businesses. Visit their website https://www.acorn.gov.au/.