Traditionally the purview of large, multinational firms with complex operations, offsite backups remains a core component of any Disaster Recovery Plan. To ensure you can recover from an event, you’ll need to enforce a strict backup schedule. However, if you host the backups in the cloud or on your network, you could still be at risk.
The rising trend for cybercriminals using ransomware has put all organizations at risk. By the end of last year, 43% of cyberattacks targeted small businesses. A single ransomware attack succeeding can bring a company’s operations to a halt. Even if the organization has backups available, ransomware can encrypt those files and render all of them useless. With an offsite or offline backup, you can ensure you’re able to recover from a ransomware attack.
Triofox adds ransomware protection and alerts to your file servers. It will monitor the Triofox clients for any unusual activity and shuts them down if it sees a possible attack. It also adds versioning and offsite backup of your file server, which allows IT to recover from any attacks or accidental deletions.
Triofox also protects your data from accidental deletion or unexpected corruption with version controls at the file level. Meet compliance requirements and track system changes with audit traces and file change history.
What Are Offsite Backups and Why You Should Use One
It’s good practice to create regular backups of your work information. How and when you schedule your backups will depend on your company’s operations. It’s become possible for hackers to find your backup files (connected as storage media or on cloud services) and encrypt the data with ransomware attacks.
An offsite backup traditionally prevents this by keeping a copy of your backup offline at all times. If a ransomware attack succeeds, criminals won’t be able to infect that copy, allowing you to recover to a specific point once you’ve removed the infection.
With Triofox, your private cloud backup data repository is also an active, shared workspace that can be accessed directly when your file servers are unavailable. Or you can instantly spin up a new environment by restoring the file server network shares to a new off-site location.
Why Are Offsite Backups Important?
Every company should ensure it limits its attack surface. If a single one of your employees falls for a phishing scam, it could lead to a ransomware infection spreading throughout your corporate network. Keeping an offsite backup is your last line of defense against the latest cyber attack types. You should always have one of your backups in a cold (disconnected) state and only connect that back up to your live (connected) system when necessary.
Where Should You Store Your Offsite Backups
To ensure your backup remains protected at all times, you’ll want to consider where you’ll be storing your offsite backup. Although the name offsite implies you should keep it at a different location to your corporate office, this depends on your company’s business operations. If there’s any chance of a natural disaster influencing your offices, remove your backups and keep them safe in a second location. For most offices, it’s enough to store the backup in the office, disconnected from any of the networks or devices.
Maintain worker productivity with direct access to your backup repository with triofox when your file servers are offline. Backing up file server network shares and folders on remote devices also creates a live fail-over environment.
What Are the Benefits of Having Offsite Backups
By including an offsite backup in your disaster recovery plan, you can recover from a catastrophic data loss event. Cyberattacks will continue to increase, and the tools criminals deployed will become more sophisticated in the coming years. Keeping an offsite backup as a last line of defense is good cybersecurity practice.
What Types of Offsite Backups are Available?
You can use either physical or cloud storage for your offsite backups. The primary consideration is to ensure it supports your business process while remaining secured from your company network. Although cloud storage is one of the offsite backup options, it’s safer to use physical storage to stay under lock and key for better security.
Leverage AWS and Azure cloud services. With triofox, synchronize local file server network shares to designated AWS or Azure accounts for business continuity.
Triofox also enables branch office file server synchronization. Synchronize files and folders from remote branch offices to headquarters for business continuity.
Using Triofox to Establish and Manage Your Remote Access Environment
Triofox makes it easy for you to manage your remote access environment and secure your essential company files. You can set up your remote access using existing permissions while staff can access the information needed to remain productive.
You can also leverage local data centers for business continuity by synchronizing local file server network shares to local data centers.
To see how Triofox can help your organization and improve your disaster recovery planning with offsite backups, request a demo today.
