A BETTER WAY

Most businesses trust their backups completely, right up until the moment they don’t work.

If you’ve never tested yours, you don’t know what you have. You have a file sitting in storage, and you’re assuming it’ll come through when you need it. That’s not a recovery plan.

Testing your backups shows whether your systems, files and recovery plans can keep your business running when something goes wrong. Skip the tests, and your first live restore becomes your first live drill with no room to fail.

Here are five major risks you’re taking when backup testing isn’t on the calendar.

4 Signs Your Access May Be Out of Control

When a business grows, systems access grows with it.

You hire new people, bring in contractors or move someone into a different role, and you give them the logins and permissions they need to get to work. But those logins and permissions don’t always get removed when the project ends, the contractor leaves or the role changes.

Most likely, no one is consistently tracking which permissions are still active, and as a result, more people can log into your business than would if you were starting fresh today.

Each of these unused accounts are a potential entry point for attackers, and every unnecessary permission increases the risk of insider misuse whether intentional or inadvertent.