Continuous data protection – Secure your important data.

Data protection is the need of the hour. Data, information which can be used, needs to be protected. This protection needs to be on a continuous basis. Even a small lapse in the protection of the data can lead to serious data integrity threats on the part of the database administrator. This database threats can be from various sources. The protection to them should also be varied. The various threats to a database determine what protection it needs.

The database of a website, for example, would need continuous data protection as the server of the website is on for all the hours of the day and night. Hence this database is susceptible to many threats considering the time the threats get to hack the database. Continuous data protection hence is quite necessary for a website database which is on for all the hours of the day.

There can be a second type of a database. These databases are databases of companies where confidential data of the company is stored. These databases are on usually during business hours of the company. These databases hence need adequate protection during the time when they are not in use. However there are threats to such databases even during the times that such databases are not in use. These databases are susceptible to hacking and phishing attacks during the times when they are not in use. Hence these databases also need continuous data protection.

Continuous data protection is also required due to the varied nature of the attacks that can come over a database. The varied attacks maybe from varied sources. Some of these attacks are hacking, phishing, zombie computers, data theft etc. Hacking attacks are those in which a hacker, who is a computer user, forcefully gets into and corrupts the entire database and the data in the database. Continuous data protection in such cases is required as hacking attacks can be affected upon a computer server at almost any time of the day.

Phishing attacks are attacks over the servers of financial institutions. These institutions store the very confidential data of the institution customers in their database. This often includes login data to the various bank accounts and credit card accounts of the customers. These phishing attackers often use this data to transfer money from the account of the customers to the account of the customer. Continuous data protection is required for these databases also as a loss here affects thousands of account holders.