Annual leave is for you, not your systems.

As the Christmas holidays approach, most of us will take annual leave off to enjoy the festive spirit. While you enjoy your time off, the last thing you’d want to round off the year with is returning to work to find your systems completely compromised! Being away from your system is the perfect time for cyber attackers to take advantage, knowing they can do the damage without fear of you catching on.

Ransomware could be the most likely thing you could return to find your system infected with. Malware is bad enough as it is but imagine that not only are you not able to access your files, but hackers are demanding you pay for them to release the files, or so they claim! Not only do they go down the route of demanding money from you in Bitcoin, so that it can’t be traced, but there’s no guarantee they will even decrypt your files once you’ve sent the money.

The best port of call is to accept defeat and not pay the ransom. Consider your files lost and start from scratch. Yes, you could run the risk of paying the ransom and decrypting your files, but the chance is slim, and the ransom would be too high to be worth it. But of course, if you had a third-party backup in place in the first place, you wouldn’t have to worry about any of these things, as you’d be able to recover in no time!

A backup stored separately to your main system means who ever decides they want to be a nuisance and wreck your system, they won’t be able to affect the backup. You’ll be able to bounce back in no time and restore from the backup on our end. Furthermore, these backups are heavily protected meaning that you will be the only one who can have access to it. Our GUI has not only a username and password combination but MFA and SSO too.

Additional confirmation needed through the google authenticator app means even if someone gets your password, they aren’t able to login, so you’re systems will be safe as possible. We offer a variety of different types of backups, so whatever will save your systems during your annual leave can be found on our managed services here – https://www.backup-systems.co.uk/managed-data-backup/

Don’t wait until its too late to act, make sure you have the measures in place before you decide to leave your systems unattended. Get in touch with us as soon as possible so you can have peace of mind while enjoying your time off, email us at info@backupsystems.co.uk or call us at 0845 671 0290. We offer a free demonstration of all of our services so don’t hesitate to find out more about what we offer.

If you’re still not sure then get some reassurance from our reviews page, which has countless 5* reviews from our clients – https://www.reviews.co.uk/company-reviews/store/back-up-systems-ltd

Video by Daniel Lawrence, Windows & Dev Asangbam