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April 15, 2025  — 3 min read
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April 15, 2025  — 3 min read
The NIS 2 Directive: A wake-up call for health care disaster recovery strategies
The NIS 2 Directive is here, demanding robust disaster recovery strategies for health care. Learn about increased liability, patient safety risks, and why resilience is now non-negotiable.
January 02, 2024  — 8 min read
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January 02, 2024  — 8 min read
What is the 3-2-1 backup strategy?
On this first day of Cyber Protection Week, we focus on how backup is important, but that it's just as important to remember that having one backup copy is sometimes not enough. Read this article and learn how following the 3-2-1 rule of backup can stop your organization from becoming a data disaster statistic.
January 01, 2024  — 11 min read
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January 01, 2024  — 11 min read
Best Database Backup Software 2024
Database backup solutions help businesses to protect their data with reserve database copies in event of corrupt data, physical hardware failure or user error. By utilizing database backup solutions, organizations and businesses can ensure their data is always protected and available in case their database fails.
January 01, 2024  — 9 min read
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January 01, 2024  — 9 min read
The Benefits of DRaaS: Protecting Your Business from the Unexpected
Disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) is a dedicated solution that third-party providers offer to small and large businesses to ensure data protection, limit downtime, and shorten Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) when a disaster happens.
December 18, 2023  — 8 min read
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December 18, 2023  — 8 min read
What is Cloud DR (Disaster Recovery)?
Before your organization makes an investment to support your disaster recovery (DR) strategy, be sure you understand the pros and cons of each choice. For some organizations, on-premises DR may be the right solution, while other organizations can save money and achieve the best DR protection with a cloud-based DR solution.
November 30, 2023  — 37 min read
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November 30, 2023  — 37 min read
How to Backup a MySQL Database?
Since 1995, MySQL has been the relational database management system of choice for millions of businesses around the globe.
November 28, 2023  — 2 min read
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November 28, 2023  — 2 min read
Understanding WORM backup: Ensuring compliance and security
In the world of data protection and compliance, WORM (write once, read many) backup technology plays a crucial role. This approach ensures that once data is written to a storage medium, it cannot be altered or deleted for a specified period. Understanding WORM backup is essential for organizations to ensure data integrity and compliance with regulatory standards.
November 22, 2023  — 2 min read
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November 22, 2023  — 2 min read
Fortify security and resilience for your clients with NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework provides “voluntary guidance, based on existing standards, guidelines and practices for organization to better manage and reduce cybersecurity risk.” Whether your MSP is helping clients to qualify for cyber insurance or satisfy regulatory compliance, shoring up cyber protection in alignment with NIST Cybersecurity Framework is still a good idea.
November 21, 2023  — 5 min read
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November 21, 2023  — 5 min read
The best line of defense against AI-enhanced cybersecurity threats
The rise of tools like ChatGPT leave organizations more vulnerable than ever to AI-enhanced cybersecurity threats. In this article, we’ll break down everything executives need to know about how generative AI tools like ChatGPT are increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of cybersecurity attacks, and how solutions like endpoint detection and response have the speed and sophistication needed to thwart them.
November 15, 2023  — 10 min read
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November 15, 2023  — 10 min read
Ransomware diaries, part 1: QazLocker -Cyb3rK1dZ has more time than skills
This article is the first in the ransomware diaries series. We will provide an in-depth look at some active ransomware families, such as Mallox or encryptors from the Epsilon Gang, revealing the unique picture they occasionally paint, along with commonalities they maintain along the way. Every family will represent a different piece of the current ransomware landscape to showcase how diversified it has become over the years.
November 09, 2023  — 15 min read
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November 09, 2023  — 15 min read
Best SaaS Backup Solution in 2024
Many organizations believe it is not necessary to have a software-as-a-service (SaaS) backup strategy in place, thinking that their data is protected by the SaaS provider. Unfortunately, this is not true. Data loss can occur when using SaaS – in fact, Gartner reports that 70% of organizations are likely to suffer business disruption by 2022 due to unrecoverable data loss in a SaaS application.
November 08, 2023  — 6 min read
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November 08, 2023  — 6 min read
6 benefits of cloud disaster recovery in health care
Uncover common challenges in health care data protection, disambiguate cloud adoption and identify six key benefits of cloud disaster recovery.
November 08, 2023  — 4 min read
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November 08, 2023  — 4 min read
Securing critical M365 collaboration applications
Providing security for organizations' critical cloud collaboration applications is now more important than ever before. Acronis’ Collaboration App Security for M365 is an advanced security solution that provides comprehensive protection against content-based attacks. Service providers can now have 360-degree advanced threat protection for content-based attacks, designed to replace or augment Microsoft's security services.