From experience owners of web-based services often completely overlook security and protection, or make the assumption that the hosts or developers of their applications and services will take care of backup automatically – this is quite often not the case!

• Hosts
Web hosts (ISP’s) will usually have their own backup systems in place, but don’t always allow ‘consumer’ access without time delays or serious cost implications. Its also possible that their backup strategy might not be suitable for your size and type of application.

• Developers
Developers will usually store local copies of the applications and the working files used to create them, but are unlikely to regularley backup the databases running the systems, or any changes they’ve not been involved with.

A Data Backup service should provide the appropriate level of backup for your online services, carrying out either full or incremental daily/weekly backups for example, depending upon the nature of the application. However to support your backup strategy, it is wise to consider security and protection too.

Security
Securing your online services and applications is critical to ensure maximum efficiency in their delivery and usage. If a service is delivered online, then it’s at risk of being found by prying eyes or of attack by any number of threats.

Our security services can help to ensure that your services are as safe as feasibly possible, by ensuring that unnecessary ports are not open, access control is carefully administered, elements are up-to-date and known security flaws are rectified.

If you are concerned about prying eyes, attacks, data protection, risks, business continuity, disaster recovery or just want to achieve peace of mind that what you’re doing is sufficient for your business, then please get in touch to discuss how we can help.