MYTHS OF DATA RECOVERY

If you've never experienced a hardware failure, do you need a proactive information loss plan? How are traditional hard drive, SSD and Flash memory repairs alike? Are all service providers trustworthy? We tell you.

Whether due to a system error, at the hardware level or an unfortunate deletion accident, thousands of data are drowned in the abyss of business and private networks every year. Not surprisingly, it is estimated that half of computer users never bother to make backup copies of the work they do in digital format and that another worrying three-quarters do not know what software updates consist of. All this despite the fact that annual review after annual review confirms that negligence continues to be the main cause of information loss, ahead of malicious attacks or internal computer problems. Inadvertent leaks through email or the loss of storage devices such as USB keys, optical media or laptops themselves, also have a prevalence of dubious honor.

And all this despite also the fact that electronic data is one of the most valued assets today. From messages to contact agendas, through reports, video files and photos. And that both employees and customers are increasingly expecting critical services to be available and accessible at any time. What is the general feeling? There is a significant gap between what people consider a data protection priority - read, restoring critical underlying applications and recovering lost data - and the backup programs they actually implement. It is said that only 5% of businesses set their recovery objectives strictly around the applications compared to 78% of the occasions in which they do not play any role when organizing the strategy of an organization.

And the end result? That, even with technological advances, data is still being lost. And money. The issue is especially bloody for companies, and for those dedicated to the telecommunications sector. A small-scale embarrassment can damage your reputation for a more or less limited time, but a massive loss of confidential information always leads to decreased revenue, lawsuits and financial penalties. Recovery costs can easily run into the millions of dollars, and in fact in purely computer failure situations a single hour of downtime is valued at a whopping 7.5 million. It seems clear that it is necessary to educate users and rethink the current data recovery model.

"When data loss occurs, individuals do not know the process to rescue their data or how to evaluate a data recovery provider, so panic drives their decisions," This has drawn up a list of the five most common mistakes made by users when implementing security measures and facing the search for solutions, such as concern about the amount of hiring experts and ignorance of the operation of their own personal devices.

1.  Innocence: - Having a storage system that works properly on a day-to-day basis is no guarantee that data will remain safe and sound in crisis situations. Nor is it to have avoided risky situations in the past. Accidental deletion of database folders or records, overwriting, reinstalling and updating programs are common situations that consumers should be aware of, not to mention the prevalent viruses or less likely natural disasters. Additionally, many of the replication processes are not performed in real time, which means that the most recent and perhaps most important data would be excluded. Along with the periodic testing of the copies, it is recommended, as additional help,

2.  Price: - When they are faced with the situation of hiring the services of a professional, many individuals are guided by websites full of promises and flat rate advertisements that, in reality, represent the tip of the iceberg. If the anticipated time, the difficulty of the task and other associated factors increase, so does the final amount, making what at first seemed a low-cost solution more expensive. Another widespread mistake is to purchase the cheapest option because you think that all lost files are recoverable regardless of the type of situation. Reality? Due to the complexity of storage devices and the different accidents that exist, not all data can be ultimately rescued. The ideal? Put yourself in the hands of data recovery engineers,

3.  Resources: - It depends on the provider. But, regardless of the volume of data to be saved, customers must ensure that they choose a company with experience in the sector and capable of salvaging their assets in an environment that complies with the highest security protocols. To date, a still scarce number of suppliers have the so-called ISO-5 (Class 100) clean rooms, or even qualified engineers and proprietary tools that are valid to meet complex or specific needs. All of them essential conditions if you want to avoid the brown of saying goodbye forever to information that could have been recovered without major problems or that it falls into a bad fate. It is also essential that the chosen company can recover encrypted data and return it in the same encrypted format.

4.  Difficulty: - There is only a solution for certain technologies ". To prove their worth, data recovery service managers must know how to adapt their resources to all kinds of jobs, regardless of the size of the incident, the affected hardware or the operating system used. That is, any generation of hard disk drive, any SSD or Flash solid state memory support, any server, desktop or laptop, mobile terminal, model and brand. On the other hand, it is important that the user knows that the possibilities of successfully recovering data contained in databases or virtual systems are similar, and sometimes greater, than those of undertaking a repair on a traditional hard disk. And, in this sense, you can operate on emails, word processors, presentations,

5.  Security: - Using your data stored in device and putting passwords on it and thinking that it is secured it's totally wrong. And there is no technology that is exempt from yielding to external attacks, even in the event that a disk has been hit or damaged. The collective memory is full of stories of hackers who manage to break down the highest security walls and get hold of the private information of millions of people although, of course, it is essential to apply all the security measures within our reach and take extreme care of our devices.