IT Resilience – The Challenge For SMEs

Among the companies affected by business interruptions due to inadequate methods or inappropriate disaster recovery practices, nearly 50% have lost data: hacks, computer station failure, malicious use, etc., are all upheavals that have directly affected business productivity.
SMEs are the most affected in the event of work disruptions. What are the biggest challenges for them when it comes to IT resiliency?

What Is IT Resilience?

Resilience is a person’s ability to withstand traumatic shocks and rebuild themselves immediately. Applied to computing, it corresponds to the power of a computer system to overcome hazards by triggering resistance, adaptation, and reconstruction mechanisms, as the case may be. The objective is to guarantee the continuity of its information system in the event of a peak in activity, hardware failures, hacking, or any other incident.

IT Resilience And Its Challenges

The challenges of IT resilience are heterogeneous.

• The economic issue is the first and most important. When you have a responsive IT department, the recovery costs are relatively lower than those of a business that lets itself be surprised.
• The second challenge is to strengthen the IT security system of companies. The European Union invites companies and institutions to take technical measures to optimize the level of security of their IT systems due to the increase in the number of attacks in recent years.
• The third issue concerns the environment: the impact on the environment can be considerable compared to a resilient, reliable, and organized computer security system.

How To Preserve Your Data And Your Activity Thanks To Resilience?

• To face the challenge linked to the rapid growth of data, companies must direct part of their investments to protect their data. The most valuable data is often the most ignored. Yet your Office 365 data must be protected. IT resilience
• Solutions are likely to compensate for possible IT system failures. Indeed, consider the optimization of IT infrastructures, the cloud, the combination of virtual and physical platforms, etc. A resilient infrastructure gives you the advantage of having a high availability of your computer system and avoiding business interruptions.

The Benefits of IT Resilience

• IT resiliency can dramatically lower recovery costs by reducing operational complexity. It can allow you to recover your data in complete working continuity quickly.
• An approach oriented towards IT resilience can upstream allow you to anticipate disasters by providing you with the appropriate technology and the correct method to minimize and guarantee the availability of your IT infrastructure at all times. To achieve this, it may be necessary to call an IT service provider to set up an IT DRP (IT disaster recovery plan).

How To Implement IT Resilience?

The implementation of IT resilience is based on the following elements:

• IT security,
• the administration and maintenance of information systems,
• the use of secure cloud hosting for your IS
• physical security,
• data backups and data hosting,
• internal company organization and procedures.

The development of concrete actions around these elements will facilitate the implementation of your IT resilience.