Safe Data Storage

The protection of digital assets is becoming increasingly crucial as the amount of data continues its exponential growth. Secure data storage allows organizations to stay away from cyber threats and ransomware-related attacks that can compromise their precious information. This article explains how to keep data secure regardless of whether it’s physically stored on hard drives or USBs or even online in cloud storage solutions.

Backups are a vital part of any safe storage system for data. Making a second copy of any file ensures that if it is lost due to hardware failure such as theft, a burglary or the fire there will be another click resources copy available. However, this isn’t enough to be able to defend against all dangers.

To make sure that backups are actually secure, storage administrators should follow the following guidelines:

All sensitive data at rest as well as moving, should be secured. This ensures that nobody is able to access the data without the encryption keys, which should be stored in a separate location and updated regularly.

Anomaly detection – a strong security system for your network should be in place. It should detect and act on any unusual activity that could indicate that an attack is underway. This is a great way to catch hackers in the act and stop them from stealing data from storage systems.

Immutable storage — it’s recommended to have multiple copies of the same file and the main copy should be unchangeable. This is like a time capsule which preserves your information exactly as it was at the time of saving.