Maintain air-gapped, encrypted backup copies that stay isolated from your production environment.
Cloud-based infrastructure with industry-leading backup software (Veeam + Microsoft Office 365) nearly completes the time-honored 3-2-1 backup strategy of three copies of your data (your production data and two backup copies) on two different media (disk and tape) with one copy offsite and offline.
As recommended by the British and US governments for ransomware protection and best cybersecurity guidelines, keeping an up-to-date and tested copy of your data offline is one of the highest priorities. In the event of a cyberattack, wiping critical files and/or systems or encrypting them on an offline copy on hardware-encrypted media are the ultimate defense strategies. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency states:
It is critical to maintain offline, encrypted backups of data and to regularly test your backups. Backup procedures should be conducted on a regular basis. It is important that backups be maintained offline as many ransomware variants attempt to find and delete any accessible backups. Maintaining offline, current backups is most critical because there is no need to pay a ransom for data that is readily accessible to your organization.
The Veeam console can easily be configured to save a copy of your data to an external USB drive, thereby eliminating the need to back up jobs manually. This is a crucial part of a secure backup plan to complement your Cloud storage, as SecureData drives are offline hardware-encrypted devices. Without a password or PIN, they cannot be accessed. Their internal components are epoxy-coated to prevent physical tampering and when 10 consecutive incorrect password attempts are made, all data is completely erased.
SecureData has driven innovation in FIPS 140-2 Level 3 hardware-encrypted storage for over a decade. Our award-winning line of SecureDrive® BT and SecureDrive® KP drives offers the highest level of protection against unauthorized access while also safely storing data offline. These drives require user authentication in order to unlock them, and they can be customized to restrict capabilities even to authorized users.
SecureDrive’s BT devices can be combined with the Remote Management Console to provide a complete managed security solution. It allows IT administrators to control who can access the data, when they can do it, and where your data is accessed. BT Drives can be geo- and time-fenced through Remote Management to prevent access outside of certain geographic and time parameters.
SaaS platforms provide scalability, availability, and operational efficiency, but they do not eliminate the need for independent backup control. In fact, many SaaS providers state in their terms of service that customers are responsible for maintaining their own backups of the data they store on the platform. Native retention policies, cloud sync, and provider-level recovery may not fully protect against:
Maintaining offline, encrypted backups of SaaS data on our SecureDrives® provides IT teams with a separate recovery path outside the production tenant and cloud provider environments.
By exporting critical data to secure offline storage, organizations can preserve recovery copies that are not accessible to attackers, compromised credentials, or authorized users who can modify or delete live data. For a resilient SaaS data protection strategy, offline backups provide an additional layer of assurance, reduce dependency on cloud availability, and improve recovery readiness when tenant data is deleted, encrypted, corrupted, or otherwise compromised.
Microsoft 365 provides reliable cloud services, but your organization is still responsible for protecting the data stored within Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. Cloud retention, recycle bins, and version history are helpful, but they are not a substitute for an independent backup strategy.
Our SecureDrives® provide an encrypted offline backup solution that gives IT teams a separate recovery copy outside the Microsoft 365 tenant. By exporting critical Office files, emails, and business records to secure offline storage, organizations can protect data from threats that cloud-based recovery alone may not fully address.
Secure offline backups help protect against:
Because secure external hard drives are hardware-encrypted and stored offline, backup copies remain isolated from attackers, compromised credentials, and authorized users who can modify or delete live cloud data. This creates an air gapped recovery layer that helps ensure critical information remains available when production data is lost, encrypted, corrupted, or deleted.
Protecting your organization’s data does not have to be complex, even for small teams with limited resources. SecureDrive® solutions make it simple to strengthen data security and safeguard sensitive information.
Protect your data with hardware encryption at rest, in transit, and beyond.
Protecting your organization’s data does not have to be complex, even for small teams with limited resources. SecureDrive® solutions make it simple to strengthen data security and safeguard sensitive information.
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request evaluationAn offline backup is often the key to recovering from a digital disaster. However, backups can also become damaged, corrupted, or inaccessible, especially when the underlying storage media has failed. When a backup set fails to restore, we help IT teams recover data from damaged, incomplete, inaccessible, or compromised backup files.
We perform data recovery on a wide range of backup platforms, file formats, storage media, and enterprise environments to extract recoverable data, repair backup structures when possible, and restore access to critical files. Common backup systems and file types we support include:
Whether the failure involves a local backup, network repository, cloud export, removable media, virtual environment, or legacy archive, we help reduce downtime and recover the data needed to resume operations.
From single external hard drives, SSD’s, mobile devices to enterprise NAS, SAN, and RAID failures, we are ready to help recover from digital disasters, anywhere.
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A strong backup strategy should protect against hardware failure, accidental deletion, ransomware, corruption, natural disasters, and human error. One of the most effective frameworks is the “3 2 1 0 backup rule”.
3 Copies of Your Data: Keep at least three copies of important data, including the original production data, one primary backup, and one additional backup copy.
2 Different Storage Types: Store backups on at least two different types of media or platforms:
1 Copy Offsite: Keep at least one backup copy in a separate physical or cloud location in case of fire, flood, or theft. For many organizations, this offsite copy may be stored in the cloud, at a secondary office, or on encrypted drives kept in a secure location.
0 Backup Errors: The “0” means there should be zero errors in your backup process. To help ensure this, monitor backup jobs, verify integrity, test restores regularly, review logs and alerts, confirm completion, and validate recovery points.
Do not assume a backup is reliable simply because it exists. As a data recovery services company with decades of experience, we often help users who discover too late that their backup is outdated, incomplete, corrupted, or not functioning properly.
Need help building or implementing a reliable backup strategy? Contact us to create a customized data backup plan for your organization.
Security, compliance, and transparency are foundational to our products and services. We maintain rigorous industry-standard controls and validation processes, supported by a broad range of independent certifications and attestations.
Our solutions are designed to help organizations protect sensitive data, meet regulatory requirements, and reduce operational risk. We also provide clear documentation and trusted support to give customers confidence in how their data is secured, handled, and recovered.
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