Imagine logging into your system one morning only to find all your data encrypted, with a ransom note demanding thousands of dollars. How would your business survive?
As we have previously seen, the cost of a cyberattack can exceed $50,000 in damages. The stakes could even be higher when sensitive business documents and customer data are compromised. Such breaches not only affect finances but also erode customer trust and damage your reputation.
In this article, join 1300 INTECH as we explore a smart and cost-effective way to safeguard your business against these threats—Magic Backups®.
What are Magic Backups®?
Magic Backups® are an advanced, automated protection process that continuously safeguards your most critical business computers, not just data.
It securely copies and remotely stores mission-critical data at scheduled intervals, ensuring that your system remains safe, recoverable, and protected against cyber threats, accidental deletions, or hardware failures—all without manual effort.
How do they help small businesses?
If that sounds like simply copying data to a flash drive and locking it away, Magic Backups® goes far beyond that. Small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) often juggle countless responsibilities and rarely have the manpower or resources to maintain a dedicated cybersecurity team.
This leaves them vulnerable to data loss and cyberattacks. Thankfully, Magic Backups® provides a cost-effective solution to this challenge. With Magic Backups®, you don’t need an IT team or spend hours managing backups—your system is automatically secured, so you can focus on running your business.
Beyond data storage, Magic Backups® is a vital tool for business continuity. It safeguards your operations before, during, and after a cyber attack, ensuring your business can recover quickly and resume operations as soon as possible.
1. Automates Backups
Magic Backups® operates through a seamless, automated process to ensure any on-site devices you use for your business are always protected. The system first creates a complete backup of your entire system and data files on a secure local device.
Once verified for accuracy, the backup is encrypted and securely transmitted overnight to Australian-based servers, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations.
This automated process eliminates the need for manual intervention, allowing businesses to create recurring backups effortlessly. Therefore significantly reducing the risk of loss due to cyberattacks, accidental deletions, or system failures.
Think of Magic Backups® as a cost-effective insurance policy against ransomware attacks. Your backups are always up-to-date, secure, and ready for recovery when needed.
1a. Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
Unlike traditional backups that occur at fixed intervals, Magic Backups® offers Continuous Data Protection (CDP). They capture every change made to your files as often as every hour. This ensures that even very recent edits are backed up, minimising data loss in case of unexpected failures.
With CDP, businesses like yours no longer need to worry about gaps between backups. Whether it's a sudden power outage, hardware failure, or a cyberattack, Magic Backups® preserves the latest version of your data, ensuring a fast and accurate recovery.
1b. Proactive Monitoring & Support
Magic Backups® also comes with proactive support from 1300 INTECH's expert technicians. Our team continuously monitors backup performance, ensuring everything runs smoothly and highlighting any issues before they become major problems.
Best of all, this monitoring service is included at no additional cost beyond your monthly subscription fee, giving you peace of mind without extra expenses. If an issue arises, our experts will notify you and help keep your data safe and accessible.
1c. Fast recovery
When it comes to recovery, time is everything for small businesses. The quicker you restore your data after a cyberattack, the less damage it does to your revenue, operations, and customer trust.
Ransomware attacks can paralyse businesses for days, especially for industries where data access is critical.
Let’s say you run a small accounting firm that relies on financial records, tax data, and sensitive client information. Even a few hours of system downtime may result in significant financial losses for your business.
With Magic Backups®, you get a clear and consistent Recovery Time Objective (RTO), ensuring rapid data restoration when disaster strikes. Whether it’s a cyberattack, accidental deletion, or hardware failure, Magic Backups® lets you resume operations seamlessly—like nothing ever happened.
2. Encrypts Securely
Cybercriminals no longer just target systems — they now go after backup data, attempting to corrupt, disable, or delete it to prevent recovery.
Magic Backups® counters this with advanced encryption technology, ensuring that only authorized users can access and restore your data. This encryption process converts your original data (plaintext) into a highly secure, unreadable format (ciphertext) using powerful encryption algorithms.
2a. Protection even on the inside
Security threats don’t always come from the outside. That’s why Magic Backups® includes strong access controls, preventing unauthorised personnel from tampering with business-critical data.
Only trusted individuals can access or restore sensitive information, adding an extra layer of internal security. This way, your data stays encrypted, secure, and recoverable.
3. Creates immutable backups
Magic Backups® includes immutable backups, a security feature that ensures your backup data cannot be altered, deleted, or encrypted—even in the event of a cyberattack. Once a backup is completed, it remains unchangeable, safeguarding your information from ransomware threats.
3a. Why do immutable backups matter?
For businesses, data is everything. Ensuring it remains accessible, no matter what, is essential for business continuity. Immutable backups guarantee that a clean, untampered version of your data is always available, providing peace of mind in the face of cyber threats.
Example Scenario: You own a fitness centre that suddenly lost access to its membership records, payment details, and subscription statuses due to a ransomware attack. The resulting downtime could lead to thousands in lost revenue and operational chaos.
With Magic Backups®, businesses don’t need to worry about paying ransoms or losing critical data. Your backups remain secure and recoverable, no matter the attack.
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Don’t wait for a cyber-attack to realise the importance of backups. Protect your business today with Magic Backups®. Book a Discovery Call using the button below and find out how we can help you better protect your business from cyber criminals and other disasters.
