Many businesses that lose access to their data never reopen their doors. Even when businesses lose some data but avoid a total outage, their employee productivity, customer satisfaction, and company reputation can plummet. This means that service providers have a moral obligation (in addition to their profit motive) to make sure that their customers have a well-structured business continuity plan. Business continuity is the process of making sure business information services are resilient enough to withstand accidental, intentional, or natural disruptions to their data. Sometimes, the business continuity issue is simply human error – someone deletes a key file from a system, causing it to break. Other times, device failures and even natural disasters will necessitate the launch of a business continuity plan.

When it comes to cyber threats, the future is here—malware attacking new devices in new ways and jumping on popular technology trends to do it. Phones aren’t safe, computers aren’t safe, and in some instances, it doesn’t even take clicking on the wrong link or attachment to become a victim of an attack. Keeping up with these threats is becoming a full-time job, and it’s imperative that we do whatever it takes to keep our data safe. With each week looking slightly different from the last, what tech headlines did you miss?

Scuderia Toro Rosso has revealed its 2017 Formula 1 challenger, the STR12, at the pit lane outside the garage at the Barcelona-Catalunya Circuit.

Frank Jablonski, Acronis Vice President of Global Product Marketing, talks about cyber security with Eric O’Neill, an accomplished public speaker and security expert, who lectures internationally about espionage, cyber security, fraud, and hacking.