Is your Quickbooks® Data At Risk?
Posted by Donna BordeauxFriday, July 31st, 2009
Using Quickbooks® as your accounting software can be helpful but it can also give a false sense of security. Let’s say your Quickbooks® file is like the one I saw at a client’s office the other day — it contains over 14 years of transactions now. Yes, it is big, but what would happen if your computer crased? What if your computer was in a fire, was stolen, or your file become corrupted beyond repair? You really could be operating without a net. Many people tell me they make a back up so this would not be a problem. I ask, “where is your back up?” Usually, I will hear “on my hard drive” or “its on this USB stick in the computer.” This is not a back up protection plan.
Oh, and let’s not forget about the employee who got mad and walked out the back door of the restaurant with the computer under his arm. He took the whole “backup” process with him. Nice security, eh!
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Security And Reliability
Security of your data and files is unquestionably most essential to your business. Threat to data security can occur either due to laxity in data transfer in the network or threat to the server storage features. Data backed up locally may suffer if the data lost accidently or due to spywares or viruses. QuickBooks® Hosting allows the storage of data in the safest way possible. The data of your application is saved in our highly protected data centers regularly as well as there is multiple backups of your files. Besides that, data transfer is also safe as it is enabled through highly encrypted data transferred protocol. Further, you have the reliability of heavily protected data centers as well as confidentiality that your data is only accessed by you.
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July 31st, 2009 at 7:04 pm
ummm….why aren’t you also using a fireproof waterproof hard drive from either ioSafe or Sentry??
http://www.iosafe.com
http://www.sentrysafe.com
It’s a no brainer and works to protect the entire server against almost everything that can happen to it.
August 1st, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Fireproof, waterproof hard drives are better than leaving the file without any protection on your desktop computer, but there are a lot of deficiencies in using that as your only control. These can be addressed much better with a remote hosting service.
For instance, a manual backup still does not address the issue of anytime, anywhere access which should be crucial issue to every small business owner. Hurricane, tornado, power failures…. How would you access your data?
Theft or employee sabatoge is still a potential issue. In the case where the employee (or former employee…) walks out the door with the computer and the backup drive, you are still in the same position.
This also will not account for the time lost managing the backup process. With our hosted solution, it is always backed up on redundant servers without any additional effort on the part of the small business owner.
Most small business owners’ time and efforts are better spent doing what they do best in their businesses. In order to help streamline their processes and make them more efficient (and profitable), business owners need to consider outsourcing functions such as IT. In many cases, the cost of the time lost performing this function is more than the cost to outsource. The business owner should be concerned with tasks that grow the business and create value.