Would you be able to thrive by halting operations briefly?
Cyber attacks are never going to go away, as long as there is a digital world, there are going to be criminals trying to get one step ahead and steal your data. Some even do it just to cause disruption, which is why you must be prepared if this happens to you. A cyber attack isn’t just a one-time thing either, it can leave you operating at less than 100% for weeks or even months while you attempt to recover. The question we’re asking today is, would you be able to get back on your feet and stay afloat if you had to suspend a part of your organisation?
Take Marks & Spencer for example, they recently fell victim to a cyber attack which caused issues with their services, such as contactless payments and click & collect orders in stores. Furthermore, it caused delays with online order delivery. Now, while they can continue to operate across the stores they already have, they have proceeded to halt their online orders for the time being while they work on recovering.
Online shopping is arguably going to be their bigger money maker. With the way the high street is going nowadays, online shopping is taking over year by year, and the high street shops are falling off. Marks & Spencer’s having to temporarily seize online orders is no doubt going to be a huge loss; without question, a huge percentage of their income must be coming from their online orders. There hasn’t been any mention of whether they had a backup or not, but the damage done has meant they are having to take a breather to restore everything back to normal.
More about the attack can be read here – https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/marks-and-spencer-pauses-online-orders-after-cyberattack/.
Time and time again, we stress to you that having a backup, while not being a complete defence against a cyber attack, can surely help you get back to normal a lot faster than if you didn’t have one. The last thing you’d want to do if you were to suffer an attack is to be without a vital part of your systems, as the downtime alone could cause you to lose a huge amount of your business and income. Marks & Spencer’s might be able to be alright, but could you say the same for yourself? Would you be fine having to run a few weeks or months without part of your organisation?
We highly suggest and recommend that you take a look at Backup Systems and the services we offer, which can all be found at the link here – https://www.backup-systems.co.uk/our-backup-and-recovery-services/. We have numerous options for you to choose from, which we know you will be able to benefit from. If you aren’t already utilising or backing up anything we have listed on our services, then you need to act now. Let us take care of all the boring backup heavy lifting, while you get back to work with the peace of mind that you’re as secure as you can possibly be.
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