decrypting myths
Three ways to
ensure your
data’s safety
With data breaches rising in
frequency, enterprises need
to take steps to prevent their
most important asset falling
into the wrong hands. Jeroen
Schlosser, Managing Director,
Equinix MENA, offers some
advice on how to best achieve
this level of security.
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Issue 05
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here is always the
threat that losing
your comp any’s
data will bring
your business to
a close. Not only
is the cyberattack
landscape increasing in frequency,
scale and complexity but the cost of
trying to recover from an attack is
growing astronomically as well. A recent
IBM Security and Ponemon Institute
global study showed the average total
cost of a data breach, which includes
what an organisation spends on
the discovery of and the immediate
response to one breach, is US$3.62
million. And then there is the high cost
of gaining back customers’ trust, which
is impossible to quantify and, in some
cases, to recover from.
Here are some of the ways you can
protect your data and ensure that you’ve
covered all your data protection bases.
1. Is where you store and back
up your data physically separate
and secure?
While it’s not considered best practice,
some businesses may still be keeping
their primary data and data backup
sites near each other/in the same
vicinity. Under these circumstances,
natural disasters such as hurricanes,
earthquakes and tornadoes could
easily take out both locations within
minutes. Many companies are seeing
this as a crack in their data protection
armour. To remedy this, they are turning
to distributed colocation data centre
providers that enable them to replicate
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