Active Directory Series: All About Backup and Recovery
As we cap off our series on Active Directory services, we’re taking a closer look at the importance of proper backup and recovery. After all, your AD environment is the foundation on which your digital work space is built: If it goes down for any reason, you need to be ready to take action.
Keep reading to learn more about securing your AD environment, and how Level Solutions Group helps implement next-level backup, recovery and restore solutions for our customers.
Environmental Risks in Active Directory
As the underlying permission structure that undergirds the entire digital work environment, Active Directory is especially vulnerable to malicious attacks.
Bad actors can penetrate the environment, install malware and demand huge ransoms for stolen data or hijacked administrative permissions.
It’s not just outside attacks you should be worried about in terms of potential AD disasters, though. Natural disasters (extreme weather, fires, earthquakes and the like) risk damaging physical components or knocking out power, which can be just as if not more impactful to businesses.
And of course, as with any business system, there’s always human error, negligence and insider risk to contend with. Though a business has a more realistic chance of controlling the risks of human error, it can all the same cause major business disruptions that a swift and modern backup and recovery plan can help mitigate.
The Cost of Recovery
Extended Active Directory downtime can have a significant monetary impact on a business, with losses compounding as the problem persists. Some estimates put the financial impact of an AD disaster as high as $5M per hour.
Once your AD environment goes down, immediate financial consequences include:
- Loss of productivity
- Loss of revenue
- Brand damage
But those aren’t the only financial implications of AD recovery. There’s also potential compliance penalties, legal fees and remediation costs, and the priceless fiduciary cost of a damaged reputation, incurring losses of hard-earned brand capital.
With the help of Level Solutions Group, you can be confident these costs are kept to a minimum. Our team of on-the-level experts will help guide implementation of modern restore solutions that will help your business limit the financial impact of any AD issues that may arise.
Backup and Recovery Solutions
Working in close collaboration with client teams and our industry partners, Level Solutions Group is able to help guide businesses through their viable options and decide on the most appropriate solution.
Whether that’s an on-prem air gapped solution or a decentralized cloud-based one, our level assessment will help you identify the best solution for your business.
The process you take for backup and recovery is also an important consideration. Restoring without proper security measures in place runs the risk of reintroducing corrupted or compromised systems, putting you right back at square one. To this end, Level helps clients audit existing processes and adopt best-practice solutions, empowering teams to handle AD disasters with confidence and without setbacks.
Leveling with You — The Level Solutions Group Difference
Level Solutions Group is dedicated to helping clients solve IT challenges with level talk and next-level partnerships. We cut through the jargon and flim-flam to work in side-by-side collaboration with our clients—for Active Directory issues and beyond.
Tech trouble keeping your team tied up? Ready to level up your tech assets with an integrated, on-the-level partner? Contact us to get things started.
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