With recent cyberattacks affecting companies like UnitedHealth’s Change Healthcare and CDK, business owners everywhere are raising a critical question: How do I know that my data is safe?

What about small businesses?

You normally only hear about the large corporate cases or data breaches because those are national news, but did you know for every big case you hear about, there are thousands of small businesses that are held ransom or that lose their data and end up closing their doors? Over 72% of businesses worldwide were effected by ransomware in 2023. The average ransom paid and reported in 2023 was $1.54 million.1

Here are a couple of questions that every energy company should ask:

1. If you rely on local servers, do you have reliable redundancies and protections in place?

  • What is your security stack?
  • Do you have on-site and off-site backups? How often are they verified?
  • Does your business need off-site replication for the least amount of down-time?
  • If you are using an MSP or local IT, who is auditing them to make sure they are doing the best things to protect you?

2. If you rely on Cloud servers, are you hosting with a provider that ensures the best protection for your business?

  • Did you know that big name public cloud providers don’t include critical systems like backup and security? Those services are “add-ons” that a lot of companies don’t realize that they don’t have until it is too late.
  • Most cloud providers only offer you a space to put your data and software applications, but a lot of the same questions from above would still need to be handled and answered. Are you covered?

At Silverline Solutions, we built our own data center from the ground up to make sure that we protect your data with critical infrastructure systems, security, and redundancy. Our customers have the peace of mind knowing that their software is hosted, protected, and carefully maintained by our experts who understand how to safeguard companies in the energy industry.

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1 National University Cybersecurity Statistics