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Compliance
Drift’s experience in Regulatory and IT Compliance as well as industry best practice ensures that businesses will meet compliance. With the implications of not having the right Regulatory and IT Compliance solutions in place, it is extremely important for businesses to take compliance seriously. Drift provide timely, simple and direct solutions through our easy to use software. Drift provides a single solution for multiple backup strategies. With filtering, directory exclusion and backup accelerators, customers can implement solutions efficiently and cost effectively.

 

FSA Guidelines
Our data backup services are based at multiple sites in the UK. The FSA has minimum guidelines in regard to many areas of IT. For data backup and restore these are:

  • Backup must be stored offsite
  • Backup must be encrypted
  • Every revision of file must be available
  • 7 years of data backups must be KEPT
  • You should be able to recreate client data away from your normal place of work.

 

Security
Backup procedures are not simply an IT issue, but are an important part of risk management and governance. Part of the job of Drift is to provide a cost effective solution for backups for companies of all sizes. In the UK, the Data Protection Act is used to ensure that personal data is accessible to those whom it concerns, and provides redress to individuals if there are inaccuracies. This is particularly important to ensure individuals are treated fairly, for example for credit checking purposes. The Data Protection Act states that only individuals and companies with legitimate and lawful reasons can process personal information and cannot be shared.

 

Data Security
It’s clear that organisations frequently don’t have a data back-up policy as they have been sold the idea that hosted services are a much better and more cost-effective way of storing data. So when it all goes wrong – and particularly if services disappear overnight, they are going to be in trouble. Drift’s simple and easy to use online backup software takes away some of the headaches of managing data backups by completely automating the process in a easy to understand way.