Backup – Technical Insurance for Data

Backup is technical insurance for your company's data. It's the method to ensure your data is available at all times and protected against data loss. In case of a cyber attack, backups often serve as the "last line of defense" when all other security mechanisms like firewall, virus and malware protection, and access controls have failed.

Causes of Data Loss

Data loss can occur for various reasons. These include hardware failures, human error, cyber attacks, natural disasters, and other unforeseen events. Data loss can be devastating for any company, as it can lead to operational disruption or complete shutdown, damage to reputation, and in many cases, financial losses. In extreme cases, data loss can lead to an existential crisis for a company.

Different Backup Solutions

Backup solutions are designed to secure data and ensure that it can be quickly and easily restored in case of data loss. There are different types of backup solutions: local backup, cloud backup, and hybrid backup solutions that offer a combination of both.

Local backup solutions include the use of hard drives, tapes, or other storage media to create a copy of the data to be protected. Cloud backup solutions allow data to be stored in the cloud, where it is secure and available at any time. Hybrid backup solutions offer a combination of both to achieve an optimal balance between data access and cost efficiency.

Technical Insurance for Data

From our perspective, backups are an important technical insurance for your data. Backups make it possible to quickly and easily return to normal operations should something go wrong or if a cyber attack cannot be fully defended against.

Thanks to immutable backups, the backup data in our Backup ONE Swiss Cloud can be stored in such a way that it cannot be deleted by any means for a specific period, for example 30 days. Not even by our backup experts.