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10 Ways You Can Improve Your Risk Management Process
Whether it’s taking the train to work, crossing the street, climbing mountains, trying new health supplements, making a major lifestyle change, completing a business deal, or investing in a financial product, risk is an inherent part of every aspect of human life....
Ruggedizing Data Security with Managed Security Services
Data is the new oil that keeps the business engines humming and drives growth. It can enable new pathways for businesses and help them reach overarching business benefits. However, as the data generated by business systems increasingly inundate businesses, a need for...
What is Endpoint Backup and Why Do You Need it?
We operate in a more digital and global environment now than ever before. Companies are accustomed to working remotely or with staff and collaborators located all over the world. BYOD (bring your own device) settings provide value, but they can pose a data security...
Why Businesses Need Proper Network Firewall Security
Today, numerous businesses worldwide rely on the Internet for services like email, social media, search, cloud storage, and e-commerce. While these services have connected businesses globally and smoothened business operations, they have exposed businesses to...
Top Cybersecurity Trends and How They May Impact Small Businesses
Hackers and fraudsters have broken into enterprise networks in recent years, shutting down operations for hours. While IT innovations can boost productivity, they may introduce new vulnerabilities. Here are some of the cybersecurity trends and how they may impact...
Should You Outsource Your IT?
Here are key factors to help you decide what’s best for your company. IT service providers deliver the technical expertise small businesses need at a much lower cost than hiring IT staff. They can recommend, install, and manage technology according to business’...
Introducing Data Safe SaaS Defense
Fortify critical business data with a multi-layered application that secures, protects, and defends against malicious attacks that target Microsoft 365. Data Safe Group is excited to announce an advanced threat protection for Microsoft 365 users. With our improved...
How to Implement a Cyber Resilience Strategy
The most common definition of cyber resilience is the ability of an enterprise to limit the impact of security incidents. It’s a broad approach that encompasses cybersecurity and business continuity management, which aims to defend against cyber attacks andensure that...
The Importance of Cyber Resilience
Did you know that 60% of businesses that suffer a cyber attack go out of business within six months? The vast majority of damage is due to the inability of the company to respond because they have not developed a cyber prevention and response strategy. If your...
Why Accountants Choose File Protection
Data Safe's File Protection is a secure and scalable file and folder backup service that is designed to efficiently protect accounting and finance companies and recover data across devices such as workstations, laptops, and file servers. Without access to a simple,...
How to Secure Your Home Office
When establishing a safe environment at home, we put locks on the doors, latches on the gate, and home security systems that keep uninvited visitors out, and alert us to any intruders otherwise. What we see is what we address – as is the case with most things and...
Why Does My Business Need SaaS Protection Software?
Great SaaS Protection ensures that we, as managed IT service providers, can access, control, and most importantly protect their your business whether using Microsoft 365 and/or Google Workspace data. [video width="640" height="360"...
How MSPs Can Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware attacks have all but dominated news headlines in recent weeks. Managed service providers (MSPs like us) know the risks of ransomware and how important it is to have a plan in place to respond to an attack when they have an impacted client. There are many...
What is Cyber Resilience?
Becoming cyber resilient is not an overnight endeavor. Security and resilience have been in Data Safe Group's culture from the start. We can help guide your cyber resilience journey. What is Cyber Resilience? Cyber Resilience is a measure of business strength in...
How to Prevent Ransomware: An Increasing Threat
Ransomware is nothing new. The first recorded example was in the late 1980s and it continues to spread at an accelerated pace. Did you know ransomware attacks are anticipated to cause $20 billion in damage this year, which is 57 times higher than in 20151? No business...
How Your Business Can Recover Quickly from Any Disaster
To ensure you are protected, get beyond these myths and misconceptions about Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Making Sure Your Business Is Ready for Anything You’ve seen disasters in the news that could be fatal to your business. They range from unforeseen...
Should Your Company Outsource IT? Key factors to help you decide what’s best for your company.
IT service providers deliver the technical expertise small businesses need at a much lower cost than hiring IT staff. They can recommend, install, and manage technology according to business’ objectives and core competencies and ensure that critical data is safe....
How to Start Building Cyber Resilience with Tools You Already Use
You may have heard the term “cyber resilience” around the IT channel as of late but may not know what it is, much less how to get started with it. A close cousin to cybersecurity, cyber resilience takes the “get a good lock on your doors” approach several steps...
The Aftermath of a Ransomware Attack: Downtime Hurts, BCDR Helps
There has been no shortage of ransomware attacks in the news lately with major targets like Bose, Electronic Arts, and Colonial Pipeline Co. The small and medium businesses (SMBs) of the world know all too well that ransomware is about more than just getting your data...
The Top Five Industries Targeted with Ransomware
Ransomware has been on the rise for years, but 2020 and 2021 have ushered in a new level of threat and frequency as criminals shift their focus from large enterprises to small-medium businesses (SMBs). At Data Safe Group, we are seeing the dreaded ransomware scenario...
What is Immutable Cloud Storage?
Utilizing the cloud for backup has become fundamental to business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) best practices. Small business owners are realizing that not all solutions that employ the cloud are the same, however. There are significant differences in cloud...