IT-CRUISERS: Everything IT

Maintaining reliable and secure backups of data and systems is one of the most important functions of any organisational IT team, which also forms a critical component of an organisational IT disaster recovery and business continuity plan. Having reliable backups helps to ensure that a business can quickly recover and continue to operate in the event of any sort of disaster such as failure of active systems, cyber attack, human error or even natural disasters. On an individual level, people make effort to backup their personal data in case of loss of a device and to be able to regain access to their important personal data. This is achieved by simply restoring data from backups on a new device which is usually a seamless process and gets the user up and running, eliminating the pain of loosing important data. The question is what happens when these valuable “backup vaults” become the target for cybercriminals? Why do cybercriminals target backup systems/data, how can organisations and ...

With Google Drive cloud storage service you can backup WhatsApp media which includes chats, photos, videos, audio and documents. It is goodbye to data loss! The importance of performing this backup is if you change or lose your device you can always retrieve all your previous media files with ease. Google has recently announced a new agreement with WhatsApp regarding backup of WhatsApp chats and media on Google Drive which will allow users have extra storage different from their normal Google Drive storage quota. The announcement reads; "Due to a new agreement between WhatsApp and Google, WhatsApp backups will no longer count against Google Drive storage quota. However, any WhatsApp backups that have not been updated in more than a year will automatically be removed from storage. This policy will go into effect for all users on November 12, 2018 though some users may see the quota benefits earlier. To avoid the loss of any backups, we recommend that people manually back up...