WHAT IS EMAIL BOMBARDMENT?

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An email bombing is an attack on your inbox that involves sending massive amounts of messages to it. Sometimes these messages are incomprehensible. But more often, they will be confirmation emails for newsletters and subscriptions. Thus, in the latter case, the attacker uses a script to search for forums and newsletters on the internet. Then they sign up for an account with your email address. Each will send you a confirmation email, asking you to confirm your address. Also, this process is repeated on as many unprotected sites as the script can find. The term Email Bombing or Email Bombing; it can also refer to flooding an email server with too many emails. In an attempt to overwhelm the server and disable it. But that's not the goal here; it would be a challenge to cut down on the modern email accounts used. Meanwhile, Google or Microsoft email servers, anyway. So instead of a denial of service (DOS) attack; against the email servers you are using. Also, the flood of messages
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DATA PROTECTION: WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO PROTECT CORPORATE

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The transformation Digital introduces new processes in organizations and new technologies, focusing particularly on the importance of data as a corporate asset and the need to ensure their safety.

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In a context of growing digitalization of business processes, in which the use of an ever-increasing number of applications is increasing to ensure the availability of data and services to users, it is important to ask the following questions:

1.    How much does each stop to business continuity cost in the company?

2.    How long does it take to restore data in the event of a business system down?

3.    How much does each disservice affect the quality offered to the customer? 

th Data is the largest source of wealth for a company. In fact, important information such as management data, analysis, customer data, reports and much more is saved within the IT infrastructure, so it is easy to understand how the risk of data loss is to be considered a potential economic damage.

Data security in the era of digital transformation

In the era of Digital Transformation, in which the proliferation of data increases the risk of errors or compromises, the need to guarantee data security is amplified, also finding confirmation at the organizational level.

For this purpose, the GDPR legislation has intervened, in force since May 2018, which introduced measures that have a lot to do with the issues we are discussing: the importance of data availability in the company and, in particular, the ease of recovery of the data being backed up .

Data security, in its various forms, becomes a topic of great interest for most companies and represents a priority in today's scenario, for which dealing with Data Protection requires a structured and strategic approach, capable of taking into account the context of every single company and the factors that can influence it.

The Data Protection solutions fulfill this purpose by putting together all the measures to protect data from unexpected events and guaranteeing fast recovery and recovery in the event of data loss.

But what are the possible causes of data loss today?

Cloudwards periodically draws up a list of the most frequent dangers that cause data loss in companies, these are the main causes:

·       44% for hardware anomalies or generic malfunctions

·       32% for human errors

·       14% for software corruption

·       7% for malware

·       3% for natural disasters

5 tips for an effective Data Protection solution

To address the phenomenon of data proliferation in your company, read these 5 tips to consider your current security measures and evaluate the possibility of improving them with a strategic project focused on data protection and business continuity.

1. Analyze your business needs to better protect information.

It starts with an analysis phase, essential to size the scope of the service to be implemented, to decide on which and how much data to work on and to estimate the investment. Map processes, prioritize and define activities that have strategic relevance in terms of business continuity.

2. Consider the cloud as an opportunity for your backups.

The cloud is a valuable resource for data organization and protection investments: it offers flexibility and scalability, lends itself to progressive use and allows for off-site backup.

3. Involve the people in your company in daily data protection.

It sensitizes people to assume correct and proactive attitudes, each collaborator can contribute to reducing the risk of loss or compromise of information. This will bring a significant benefit to your company's data security.

4. Choose the right technology for your infrastructure.

Choose a technology that simplifies planning, retention times, viewing the progress of processes and alerts, performing off-site backup and recovery procedures, and ultimately reducing Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective).

5. Follow good practices for managing data backups.

Use the 3, 2, 1, 0 rule as an opportunity for optimal backup organization:

3:  identifies the number of copies that should be kept for each save operation performed (3 copies of the same file);

2:  indicates the opportunity to back up on  2 different devices : a very performing device that offers the advantage of restoring data in a very short time can be combined with a very large device that allows you to keep more restore points;

1:  underlines the importance of keeping a copy outside the company: from this point of view, the choice of the cloud promises to be the optimal solution for keeping a copy of the data in a physical location far from the production one;

0: reduce the probability of errors to zero by periodically checking the quality of the restore operations.

Protecting company data will be essential for you not only to comply with recent regulations but above all to give continuity to your business, intervening quickly in case of unexpected events.

Our advice will be useful for you to become aware of your needs and to take the first step in your company's data security management path.




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