DATA RETENTION
Our mission: To ensure your company’s vital data is retained and secured with enterprise-level backup and security best practices and measures.
Why Data Retention Matters for Compliance, Continuity, and Security
- Data Retention: Preserve critical records for compliance, audits, legal holds, and institutional knowledge.
- Data Backups: Ensure point-in-time copies exist to restore systems and files after incidents or mistakes.
- Data Privacy: Protect sensitive information and limit exposure with encryption, access controls, and governance.
- Data Recovery: Rapidly restore availability and integrity to keep business operations running.
- Disaster Recovery Planning: Minimize downtime and loss with tested procedures, roles, and failover options.
Data Backups
Versioned, immutable backups across tiers (primary, secondary, offline) with encryption in transit/at rest and automated verification. Align RPO/RTO to workload criticality.
Data Privacy
Classify and minimize data; enforce RBAC/MFA, audit trails, and encryption key management. Apply retention schedules and legal holds to meet regulatory obligations.
Data Recovery
Routine recovery drills validate integrity and speed. Orchestrated runbooks cover file-level restores, database PITR, and full system bare-metal recovery.
Disaster Recovery Planning
Geo-redundant replicas, tested failover/failback, and clear communication playbooks reduce downtime during regional outages, ransomware, or hardware failures.
How We Implement Your Data Retention & Recovery Program
We begin by mapping your data sources, classification levels, and regulatory obligations, then define retention schedules aligned to business and compliance needs. From there, we implement a hardened backup strategy (e.g., 3-2-1-1-0 with immutability and offline copies), encrypted at rest and in transit, monitored with verification checksums, and protected behind least-privilege access. Recovery objectives (RPO/RTO) are set per system criticality, and backups are continuously validated through automated integrity tests.
To ensure resilience, we layer endpoint, server, SaaS, and database protection with versioning and geo-redundant storage. We document and test disaster recovery runbooks—covering roles, communication, failover steps, and validation—so your team can execute confidently. Regular drills, audit-ready reporting, and security controls (MFA, RBAC, SIEM alerts) keep the program effective and provable.
Data Retention & Backup FAQs
What is the 3-2-1-1-0 backup strategy?
Three copies of data, on two different media, one offsite, one offline/immutable, and zero backup errors verified via regular recovery tests and integrity checks.
How often should backups and recovery drills run?
Backups run continuously or on RPO-driven schedules; we recommend quarterly recovery drills (or more frequently for critical systems) to validate RTOs and integrity.
How do you handle data privacy and compliance?
We apply data classification, encryption, least-privilege access, audit trails, and policy-based retention aligned to regulatory frameworks like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and GDPR.