Checking the integrity of Backups

Every company has key critical data and it is important to maintain this data in a way that ensures:-

• confidentiality: protecting information from unauthorised access and disclosure
• integrity: safeguarding the accuracy and completeness of information and processing methods
• availability: ensuring that information and associated services are available to authorised users when required.

Backing up data is a key part of this, but so often companies regularly backup each day, but it is not until that fateful day arises that critical data has to be restored, that the backups are put to the test.

• Check that you are backing up all your Critical Data - often programs and computers are added to a system but the data that they generate gets overlooked when it comes to the Backup Process.
• Check that your Backup process does work- do a test restore at least once a month