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Backup as a service is a cloud-based solution for backing up your data to a remote server. EDSI can manage your backups, ensuring your data is secure and readily available for recovery.

BaaS offers several advantages:

• Reduced costs: Eliminate the need for on-site backup infrastructure.
• Automated backups: Scheduled backups ensure data protection.
• Scalability: Easily scale your backup storage as your data grows.
• Disaster recovery: BaaS facilitates data recovery in case of disasters.

Data loss can occur due to various reasons like hardware failure, software corruption, cyberattacks, or human error. Backups ensure you have a copy of your data to restore in case of such incidents.

We offer various backup solutions, including local backups (to external hard drives), cloud backups, and hybrid backups (combining local and cloud). We can help you choose the right solution based on your needs.

The frequency of backups depends on your industry, data sensitivity, and risk tolerance. We recommend daily backups for critical data and regular backups for less crucial information.

The retention period depends on your data regulations and needs. We can advise on best practices for data retention based on your industry.

Disaster recovery (DR) is a plan and process for restoring data and IT infrastructure after a disruptive event, such as a natural disaster, power outage, or cyberattack.

EDSI offers DR solutions that ensure business continuity in case of disruptions. These solutions may involve replicating your data to a geographically separate location, enabling a quick recovery.

 BaaS focuses on data backup, while DRaaS encompasses a broader range of services to restore entire IT systems after a disaster. BaaS is often a component of DRaaS.

• Backup: Creating a copy of your data for safekeeping and future restoration.
• Cloud Backup: Backing up data to a remote server managed by a cloud storage provider.
• Data Retention: The period for which you keep your backups for potential recovery.
• Differential Backup: Backs up all data that has changed since the last full backup, faster than a full backup but uses more storage than incremental.
• Encryption: Transforming data into a scrambled format requiring a key for decryption, ensuring data confidentiality.
• Full Backup: Creates a complete copy of all your data at a specific point in time.
• Hybrid Backup: Combining local and cloud backups for added security and redundancy.
• Immutable copy: A data version that cannot be changed or deleted, ensuring a reliable record.
• Incremental Backup: Only backs up data that has changed since the last backup, saving time and storage space.
• Local Backup: Backing up data to a physical storage device like an external hard drive or USB drive connected to your computer.
• Offsite: Located in a different physical location, often for backup or disaster recovery purposes.
• Recovery Point Objective (RPO): The acceptable amount of data loss that can occur between backups.
• Recovery Time Objective (RTO): The targeted time frame to restore your systems and data after a disruption.
• Scalability: The ability of a system to handle increasing or decreasing demands.

• Asset management and inventory: Tracking and managing all hardware, software, and IT resources within an organization.
• Authentication: Verifying a user’s identity before granting access to a system.
• Business Continuity: The ability of your business to maintain operations with minimal downtime after a disaster or other incident.
• Compliance solutions: Services or tools that help you meet industry regulations or data security standards.
• Data encryption: Scrambling data to make it unreadable without a decryption key, protecting confidentiality. (Already mentioned in Backup and Recovery)
• Disaster Recovery (DR): A plan and process for restoring your IT infrastructure and data after a major disruption.
• Firewall: A security barrier that controls incoming and outgoing network traffic.
• HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (US regulation protecting healthcare data).
• Hosted virtual servers: Virtual machines running on a cloud provider’s infrastructure, eliminating hardware management for you.
• Incident response planning: Developing a plan for how to identify, contain, and recover from security incidents.
• Infrastructure as a service (IaaS): Renting out essential computing resources like servers, storage, and networking in the cloud.
• Intrusion detection: Identifying and responding to unauthorized attempts to access a computer system.
• MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication): Adding an extra layer of security by requiring multiple verification methods (e.g., password and fingerprint).
• NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology (US agency providing cybersecurity guidelines).
• Patch management: Keeping software applications up-to-date with security patches to fix vulnerabilities.
• S3 object repository: A storage location in Amazon S3 for holding various data files.
• SIEM (Security Information and Event Monitoring): A system that collects and analyzes security data from various sources to detect threats.
• SOC 2: A security audit standard for service providers that manage customer data.
• Software distribution: Deploying software updates or new programs across multiple devices efficiently.
• Uptime: The percentage of time a system is operational.
• Vulnerability scanning: Proactively searching for weaknesses in computer systems that attackers could exploit.