The owners of AVSIM, an important resource for Microsoft Flight Simulator users, worked for 13 years to build a well respected site. Using two servers, they conscientiously backed up one to the other, confident they were protected. That confidence was shattered this month when a hacker destroyed the site, including both servers. Since no offsite backup–or even an off-server backup–was available, it was impossible to recover.
There is a lesson here for all organizations. If you have a server or other storage containing critical business information, make sure it is backed up to an offsite location. Even if the probability is low that fire, tornadoes, hurricanes, and a host of other natural threats may take out your facility, there is always the hacker community which is always looking for a new challenge.
We always talk about the importance of offsite backups, but sometimes it takes an actual example to make managers sign a check. Maybe that is the proverbial silver lining in this story.
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