As the amount of data continues to grow exponentially, protecting digital assets becomes more crucial. Secure data storage can help businesses stay away from cyber threats and ransomware attacks that could compromise their important information. This article will explain how to secure the data you store, whether it’s stored on hard drives, USBs or online via cloud storage solutions.

Backups are a vital part of any secure data storage system. Making a backup of any data file means that if the file is lost due to a hardware malfunction such as theft, a burglary or a fire it will have another copy of the file. This isn’t enough security against all dangers.

Storage administrators should follow a few key practices to ensure backups are safe.

All sensitive data at rest as well as in transit, must be secured. This will ensure that no one is able to access the data without encryption keys. They should be stored at a separate location, and updated regularly.

Anomaly detection: a solid security system for the network should be in place. It should be able to detect and respond to any unusual behavior which could indicate that an attack may be taking place. This is often a great way to catch attackers who are in the act and prevent them from taking data from storage systems.

Immutable storage — it’s recommended to have multiple copies of the same file and the main copy should be immutable. This is a kind of time capsule that preserves your data exactly as it was at the time of like this saving.