For modern businesses, building resilience in challenging situations has become a necessity.
Unexpected, out-of-hand threats can impact your organisation at any time, and if you don’t have a plan B, the consequences can get as severe as complete business failure.
In this article, we’ll help you understand why resilience is vital for organisations, as well as uncover how technology solutions can help with resilience.
Why do Organisations Need to be Resilient?
Building resilience is essential for organisations to thrive and recover in case of unexpected situations. Below are just a few of the disruptions that businesses may face:
Cyber-Attacks
The threat of cyber-attacks is becoming more prevalent each year. Based on a recent report published by checkpoint, the first half of 2022 witnessed a 42% global increase in cyber security incidents.
A cyber-attack can be in the form of malware, credentials leak, phishing, or others. The cost of a cyber-attack goes beyond just money; it may lead to a negative impact on the company’s reputation, operational failure, and loss of sensitive data.
A recent study found that up to 60% of small businesses fold within 6 months of a cyber-attack, which are alarming numbers considering how common cyber-attacks are.
Natural Disasters
Natural disasters are particularly dangerous for businesses that rely on geographically concentrated networks. If your organisation’s data is stored in a single data centre, one natural disaster could lead to unrecoverable data loss.
As we’ve experienced over the past couple of years, floods and bushfires are becoming more common in NSW. According to recent statistics, NSW is the second-highest region in Australia affected by bushfires and floods, impacting over 30% of the total number of businesses hit by natural disasters.
Technology Failures
Technology failures are inevitable, especially with on-premise data servers. Even with periodic IT maintenance and offsite backups, outages, server crashes, and data loss may still happen.
Moreover, on-premise servers lack mobility, which can make remote file access challenging. They’re also much less secure than an enterprise-grade IT infrastructure with robust security measures that include monitoring, two-factor authentication, and encryption.
Can Technology Help With Resilience?
Technology can play a significant role in the transition to a resilient work environment.
Remote working has increased cyber risks for many organisations, with hackers gaining access to critical data by compromising individual employees or business systems. With cloud backups, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning, organisations can detect cybersecurity threats and handle them before they happen, as well as recover lost data efficiently.
Technology can also reduce supply chain disruptions by implementing automated systems that provide data-driven insights to tackle inefficiencies and inventory problems, as well as eliminate possible disruptions.
Additionally, 5G will make the internet accessible to more people with faster open networks. It’s not just about faster internet speeds - the next generation of connectivity will lay the foundation for the 4th industrial revolution that relies on cloud infrastructure and IoT (Internet of Things) to maximise resiliency and efficiency.
Disaster Recovery Solutions
Disaster Recovery as a Service, or DRaaS, is a data protection model that presents a more flexible alternative to setting up and operating off-site data recovery centres. DRaaS solutions enable businesses to offload their disaster recovery strategy to third-party providers that utilise cloud-based data backup and recovery solutions.
With a DRaaS solution, your company’s IT infrastructure will be hosted using cloud resources to provide a failover target in case of a natural or man-made disaster. This includes management of the actual failover process, which includes the transition from the primary data centre to the hosted services.
The recovery process may take as little as 15 minutes, and the organisation should be able to resume its operations normally after the recovery is 100% complete.
Choosing the Right Resiliency Partner
Establishing a relationship with a reliable partner should be your key priority when implementing your resiliency strategies.
At saberVox, we pride ourselves on offering smart, modern resilience solutions that will keep your business fully operational in case of disruptions or disasters. Our solutions are:
- Highly secure
- Easy to set up
- Affordable
- Efficient
- Supported by experts located in Newcastle
Furthermore, there are no minimum usage levels for our solutions. We also make sure to assign a known monthly budget for all our IT services for full transparency.
Explore Our Solutions
To learn more about our resiliency solutions, contact us today on 1300 788 515 or complete our enquiry form.