Better safe than sorry: 10 tips to build an effective business backup strategy

This article provides 10 practical tips for building a resilient business backup strategy to mitigate risks from ransomware, destructive attacks, accidental deletion, physical disasters, and compliance needs. It emphasizes planning within disaster recovery/BCP, data discovery and classification, applying the 3-2-1 rule with offline/offsite copies, encrypting backups, protecting SaaS data, testing restorations, running backups at appropriate intervals, selecting scalable/easy-to-manage technology partners, and including endpoints. The guidance stresses that backups complement, not replace, broader cyber hygiene and security controls.