Your cloud storage provider is likely not backing up your files. Can you afford to lose this data, or have it compromised?
Video Transcript:
"Hey guys - welcome back. Today we're going to talk about cloud applications.
"Everybody uses them - even personally like Gmail, Office 365, Dropbox, whatever it might be - but in the business settings there's lots of cloud applications.
"You may be using them for your EMR, your ERP system, your manufacturing automation system - whatever it is, you need to make sure a few different things are enabled or running so that your business stays up and healthy.
"One of them is integrity. Cloud applications are designed to be robust and redundant, so that if a server goes offline or something goes down you don't notice - it stays up. But did you know that that doesn't mean your data is being backed up or having integrity scans?
"You need to make sure that the application is doing data integrity checking routinely to make sure that there's nothing wrong with your data over time - something didn't corrupt it on accident - those are things that need to be checked monthly at least.
"Secondly, sometimes it's just as simple as a checkbox to make sure your application is being backed up. Sometimes it's an extra contract, an extra fee, but you want to make sure that data is actually being backed up, because being online and being backed up are two different things.
"If your data was to get compromised, there was an integrity issue, do they have a backup that you can restore from? A lot of people assume that if it's a cloud application that's just a given, but it's not. A lot of cloud applications do not have built-in backups. They still require you to do that, and sometimes that's missed in the initial setup.
"So check data integrity, backups, and what their services for keeping it online are for you.
"That's it for today - talk to you next week."
