Incidents

Impex know how important and sensitive data is and how it should be treated. However incidents may happen at anytime. This could be anything that could destroy data, such as Fire, Theft, Explosion, Earthquake, Flood, Hardware Failure, Virus Attack, File Corruption, Human Error etc.

What is data loss

The majority of computer users will encounter data loss at some time. Data loss is usually characterized by one or more of the following:

You are unable to access any data from a previously functioning computer system or backup.
Data has accidentally been erased or data control structures have been overwritten.
Data has been corrupted or made inaccessible.

Causes of data loss

Among other causes, data loss can be attributed to system or human error, adverse environmental conditions and device failure (see Figure 1 below).

Human causes of data loss include intentional or accidental deletion or overwriting of files. Virus damage, Operating System or application software bugs, or failed upgrades may also cause data loss.

Common physical causes of data loss include power loss or power surge, overheating, electrostatic (“static”) discharge and any kind of physical damage to the storage device or medium.

Figure 1: Most data losses are caused by human error, although other causes rank close behind.

Preventing data loss

Impex can continuously make sure your data is backed up fully using different methods of backup. Incase of any incident that may happen to your business and systems Impex will restore your critical data and information within the shortest time possible.

To prevent data loss Impex uses various hardware based systems and software to do backups; and prevent any data loss in incase of an incident to get your systems or data back and running in the shortest time possible.