Why does my company need backups?

Studies indicate that only 30% of all companies use available technologies in order to facilitate archiving and restoring of information. There are several examples where entire companies had to be shut down because of their inability to recover a mission-critical piece of information after a security leak such as a virus, a disgruntled employee or the always-looming power cut before the backup has successfully completed. An in-depth risk analysis is the only way to ensure the complete and fail-safe implementation of a backup process to ensure business continuity:

• What type of information exists in the enterprise, and where is it stored?
• How relevant are the various classes of information to the business?
• What is the resulting backup strategy, based on the above information?

E-mails used to be a very productive medium. In the last couple of years, e-mail have become a burden as employees have to daily identify correctly and then remove heaps of spam from the relevant messages. It is estimated that companies lose about €400 per employee and year in productivity a result of internally generated spam. This only accounts for the paid work time required to identify and delete the Spam and does not include secondary costs such as the annoyance factor and the lost long-term motivation, or the accidental mis-classification of an important mail as spam.

According to various sources companies lose about €400 per employee and year due to Spam's effect on productivity and work hours. This amount actually understates the real effect, since it only reflects the opportunity costs of employees wading through the spam and deleting ads. It does not take into account other effects such as lower motivation due to the repetitive and annoying spam detection and deletion process, or the impact of potentially deleting a good mail (e.g. a new order) as spam.

Qustodium will support you in your fight against Spams!