Security News > 2020 > March > 5 tips for keeping your data safe this World Backup Day

A regular and reliable backup process will protect you from unexpected data loss of any sort, including cases - as many people will have experienced when coronavirus lockdowns started and they couldn't get back into the office - where your data isn't lost, but you can't get at it anyway.

If ransomware strikes your entire network, or a power surge takes out your laptop where you keep your backup drive plugged in all the time, then you no longer have a backup.

Whether you're at home or at work, you can often do that simply by unplugging backup devices or explicitly logging out from cloud backup accounts.

Don't make backups that everyone can read. As you probably know, most backup advice includes something about keeping "Offsite" backups so that they're not just offline, they're stored in a different physical location to the master copy.

We often hear people asking if they really need offsite backups, because they are understandably concerned that storing their data in two different ways in two different places simply doubles down on their risk of a data breach.

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