Have you ever lost a lot of really important data? When was the last time you had taken a backup of your work or personal data? Is your work or personal data syncing to cloud storage in real-time? If not, your data is at high risk and in many situations, if deleted, it can’t be recoverable.

Performance of new generation laptops and servers significantly increased after started using SSD hard disks and the latest operating system. This also resulted in increased risk of data recovery.

What are the ways that your data could be at risk?

· Hackers : Hacker can access your data through software, Browser extensions, data links that we receive via emails, Public WIFI, etc.

· Outdated Operating system and Devices: The risk of data loss is high in this case.

· Laptop/mobile loss..

· Physical damages: When the hard disk is damaged due to faulty hardware, voltage variation, software misbehavior or operating system crash.

What are the solutions?

1. Before you install software on your laptop, do a thorough market research about the company and software. Ex: Companies that developed the software are selling user data to any third party companies or any has there been any security issues raised etc..

2. Stay away from Browser extension, unknown antivirus and use incognito mode.

3. Never click any unknown links.

4. Learn to encrypt the data with the key.

5. Use 2nd-factor authentication for your online accounts (Gmail, Hotmail, etc.)

Since data is an important asset to any organization as well as an individual, it is important to take the backup of data at regular intervals. If you’re depending on Databases and Website hosting servers, then you must take the backup of the data.

Data sync applications of One drive, G drive, etc. are the best ones now for data back up in real-time. You can use trusted data backup software or manually take backup in the cloud.