Is Your Cloud Data Protected from Outside and Insider Threats? 
Tags: dataprotection, clouddata, cloudstorage
Published: 2019-04-19 14:34:45

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title: Is Your Cloud Data Protected from Outside and Insider Threats? 
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Businesses are utilizing off-premise and cloud resources more and more every day. Previously, the internet could just open a pathway between a business and a customer, and data and apps were stored onsite. Now businesses and their employees can access data and apps instantly from a number of cloud platforms like AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform

Though data and apps can reside anywhere, businesses still have an obligation to protect their IP, CRM data on their customers and especially any PII from customers, such as credit card and email information.  Employees can load and access new apps instantly from the cloud and those apps could contain malware which infects your entire cloud, or the app could send data to an unsecured environment. Additionally, there’s always the risk of disgruntled employees that may try to steal IP or data, and in other cases, employees may unknowingly delete data or download Ransomware which could cost thousands or weeks to rebuild the lost information.

Protect Yourself Online

While your cloud provider may protect the perimeter with firewalls or Intrusion Detection software, few have any protection inside your cloud instances.  SpinBackup is a service that protects the soft core of your cloud apps and data.  Spinbackup provides cloud-to-cloud backup up to 3x per day to minimize any loss from any number of threats, providing you with <a href="https://spinbackup.com/">a secure copy of all of your data</a> from Google’s G Suite or Microsoft Office 365, so you can recover any data that may have been lost, stolen or encrypted from your business’ cloud accounts. While existing measures exist within G Suite and O365 to protect cloud data, Spinbackup functions as an extra level of protection to ensure data loss, data leaks, insider threats and risks associated with thousands of cloud apps are proactively mitigated. 

Protect Your Customers

It is becoming increasingly important to protect customer data as well as business files. Customer account details, passwords, and payment details are all highly sensitive and confidential information that companies have a duty to protect. Relying on the security of <a href="https://outpost24.com/blog/top-10-of-the-world-biggest-cyberattacks">widely used services</a> alone is a double-edged sword. Their popularity makes them easy to use and link with other services, but with so many people using them, they are very tempting for hackers to attack. It is good business practice to back up sensitive data on a more exclusive platform that can provide assurances such as:

●	Automated and Manual Backup
 ○	Encrypted, Incremental Daily Backups to secure cloud storage on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
●	Restore
 ○	100% accurate recovery using the same folders hierarchy.
●	Deletion Control
 ○	Lost & Found folder informs you what files were deleted.
●	Local Downloads
 ○	Download backed up data from your Spinbackup account to any device.
●	Migration
 ○	Four types of data migration from one account to another one.
●	Version Control
 ○	Every version of your document, including suspended accounts, is under your control and accessible. 
●	Fast Search
 ○	Fast, easy search for your backed-up items to help you recover lost data immediately.
●	Advanced Reports
 ○	Weekly and monthly reports are available to monitor data loss protection status.

A Break in the Clouds

Data loss is also a credible threat to any business that operates using cloud services. Temporary losses of data can occur with any cloud service, and no data service can guarantee flawless data retention. Having a back-up to your cloud not only gives you confidence that your files and customer data are safe, secure, and available, but it also puts organizations in a better position to be GDPR compliant as part of an organization’s data retention policy. 

Any disruption to your connection will disrupt your business. If G Suite or Office 365 is not available online, then it can slow down productivity. A temporary halt in services may cost Google or Microsoft some embarrassment or a small drop in stock price, but for <a href="https://www.information-age.com/businesses-20bn-data-breaches-last-year-123470278/">another company</a>, it could mean the loss of a client or an investor. The speed of business today demands a business takes action quickly, and if you don’t have the information you need when you need it, you cannot act at all. Of course, we hope it will never happen but it's always better to be safe than sorry.

Keeping a secure copy of your business’ cloud data is becoming more important each day, as the number of online threats to businesses increases, and the surge in the use of major cloud services put pressure on those resources. SpinBackup gives any business the peace of mind that comes with knowing that there is a safe copy of their data available in just a few clicks.