How to secure your data for a sustainable business future

In today’s clime, data has become increasingly important. The backdrop in the increase of adoption of various technologies has made data increasingly important. In general, data is a distinct piece of information that is gathered and translated for some purpose.

Ranging from food stores to IT Firms to Security agencies and many more, we are involved in the creation of data daily. A white paper by IBM on Marketing Trends for 2017 noted that 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. Putting things into perspective, the report by IBM revealed that 90 per cent of the data in the world today was created within the last two years when the report was released.

Along with the huge benefits that technology brings, it also has its risks. One of the risks of having huge data is the security of data. According to a report by CISCO, data in the world hands can affect hundreds of millions or even billions of people at a time amd not just a business owner. Digital transformation has increased the supply of data moving, and data breaches have scaled up with it as attackers exploit the data-dependencies of daily life.

In 2018, the world’s largest ID database, Aadhaar had a data breach which exposed information on more than 1.1 billion Indian citizens including names, addresses, photos, phone numbers, and emails, as well as biometric data. The hackers sold access to the data for as little as $7 via a WhatsApp group. Despite warnings from security researchers and tech groups, it took Indian authorities until March 23, 2018, to take the vulnerable access point offline.

Thus, any serious minded organisations that would want to thrive in today’s clime, must take the security of her data seriously. Data is money or rather the new oil as many have described it, so it must be safeguarded.

A data centre is one of the most reputable options to ensure the security of your data. Both SMEs and large business enterpises will require of it. The services of a data centre services are typically deployed to protect the performance and integrity of the core data centre components. A data centre’s design is based on a network of computing and storage resources that enable the delivery of shared applications and data.

Galaxy Backbone Limited, an agency of the Federal Government of Nigeria owns Tier IV and Tier III data centres which provide full colocation and hosting services that enterprise, small and medium scale users, and developers can make use of to keep their data and services. A Tier IV data centre which is the highest standard anywhere globally provides the highest levels of fault tolerance and redundancy while a Tier III data centre protects against virtually all physical events, providing redundant-capacity components and multiple independent distribution paths.

For more details on how to access the service, please  email servicedesk @galaxybackbone.com.ng