Every day there is news of new cyber attacks, on large companies as well as SMEs and public bodies. One of the most recent targeted Vinhais Town Council, which suffered a serious attack on the municipality's system and ransom demands of around 20,000 to 30,000 euros for its information. Situations like this, which are increasingly frequent, highlight the importance of following cybersecurity best practices, such as making cloud backups and investing in firewalls.

Cloud backups and firewall: Why are they important?

Two of the tools you can use to prevent cyber attacks are cloud backups and a firewall. Find out why:

Cloud backups

Backing up your company's data means, put simply, making a copy of it and ensuring it can be accessed in the cloud or on another external drive. That way, even if a cyber attack occurs, your data will always be safe and you only need to copy it to a new computer to access it again.

Ideally, backups should be made regularly and to different locations, so that no single type of damage can affect all the copies. There are different options for storing backups, but Cloud backup has become increasingly prominent thanks to its low cost, high scalability and flexibility, without compromising on security.

Firewall

Alongside cloud backups, there is another extremely important tool for preventing cyber attacks: the firewall. A firewall is a security measure that blocks unauthorised access on a connection between devices. There are several types of firewall on the market, such as UTM (Unified Threat Management), which brings together several security functions in a single solution and is one of the most suitable options for small and medium-sized businesses. The firewall analyses network traffic and blocks any suspicious activity, preventing many cyber attacks from happening.

Skysafe: Automatic backups to the cloud

SkySafe, developed by Openlimits, is a service that provides monitoring, backup, encryption, scalability and continuous security for critical data on computers and servers.

SkySafe backs up your organisation's critical data, covering the most likely scenarios of information loss, hardware failure and human error. As well as backing up to a local drive (an external disk or server, for example), SkySafe also protects your data in Microsoft Azure©.

In Microsoft Azure©, SkySafe's external backup destination, data is geo-replicated, with six copies kept across two datacentres. With 99.9% service availability, Azure offers complete operational peace of mind.

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