SLIDESHOW: Avoiding the 7 biggest threats to data backup by David Weldon via @infomgmt

As we approach World Backup Day on March 31, security expert Rod Mathews reviews the top vulnerabilities that organisations need to guard against.

Who knew there was a day for backing up data? Some really important points here. Definitely the backups need to be separate and not in the same system/place. 

For your own personal data it is really important that you do regular backups and that you do them onto some kind of external media.  I have several external hard drives that I backup to, always run all the scans possible first. and backup at least once every 2 weeks (at home I don't create that much data etc).  Get into a routine.

SLIDESHOW: 5 Ways to Boost Data Disaster Recovery Plans via @infomgmt

SLIDESHOW: 5 Ways to Boost Data Disaster Recovery Plans via +Information Management  - Growing pressure from regulators to improve security of protected public information makes this a good time to re-examine your disaster recovery plan.

Interesting and worth a look.