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Data Recovery Security and Protection

Reputed data recovery companies take extra care to protect clients' data entrusted to them for recovery.

Below is a sample of procedures adopted by companies for this purpose:

• Security best practice compliance: Standards have been developed to ensure that data is protected while it is hosted or stored by the data recovery agency. Certification obtained from certifying agencies can indicate that the company is following secure procedures

In an ideal scenario, all business data will be backed up in real time (or almost real time). In such a scenario, any data lost will be immediately be recovered in full or almost fully from the back ups, and operations will continue with a minimum of pause. In realistic scenarios, however, staff will probably be overburdened with day-to-day operations to back up all data. Even if data is backed up, it might not be tested for recover-ability. In this scenario, data recovery services become a critical requirement.

Date Recovery History: A Few Cases

Data loss can cripple businesses as data is unique to each business and there is no way to replace it except by reconstruction using backups or through data recovery. Cases of businesses going bankrupt after loss of all their data are not uncommon. In this article, however, the emphasis is on successful data recovery cases.