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It is already well known that the health crisis has triggered the use of devices and internet consumption worldwide, leading to an unprecedented growth in web traffic. In this context, cyberattacks have also increased and our country does not fare well in the European ranking: there has been 125% more in the last year, reaching 40,000 newspapers, which makes Spain the third most attacked country in the world. Europe.
Globally, the data is not improving: in 2020, cyberattacks reached a new victim worldwide every 10 seconds.
Companies are at the center of the target of these cybercriminals, who attack their servers and platforms in search of relevant information that provides them with economic benefits. One of the latest and most notorious is the one suffered by the State Public Employment Service (SEPE) due to the Ryuk virus.
First, it is especially important that companies take serious cybersecurity measures and have systems in place to protect their information.
One of those forms of protection are backups: “The backup must always be automated and external to the headquarters; A backup is not an action that we do manually, or what we save on a USB or with a direct connection. Tools such as Dropbox or Google Drive are very useful to work as a team and be synchronized, but they are not backup copies that protect us against ransomware, viruses, deletions, etc. ”, explains Juan Llamazares, CEO of Datos101.
Likewise, it points out that “it is necessary to have a protection plan against physical disasters such as fires, floods, theft, losses and human errors. It is estimated that more than 49% of data losses are caused by human error ”.
Backup has become an essential tool to protect data, however, only 10% of SMEs make backup copies. “In the Spanish medium-sized company there is no awareness of the need to make backups”, they say from Datos101, and they add that “when they are done, they are not done properly”. In his case, the communities with the most contracted backup services are Madrid and Catalonia, followed by Galicia, the Basque Country, Valencia, Navarra and Andalusia.
The loss of data due to computer attacks, physical disasters or human errors can mean losses of between € 2,000 and € 50,000 for SMEs, according to Incibe. This figure rises to 3.6 million on average in large companies, according to IBM data.
“There are many causes that can occur in the facilities of a company and that can cause damage to computer and storage systems. For example, some of the agencies we work with came to us after being affected by a fire or flood. In these cases, having a backup in the cloud makes it possible to recover all the data and systems, and thus continue with the activity while minimizing losses, ”says Llamazares.
The investment for a company to have a backup in the cloud ranges between 30 and 90 euros per month.
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