Data Recovery & Backup

Data recovery is the process of recovering lost, accidentally deleted, corrupted or inaccessible data. According to 2020 UK statistics, most data loss is caused by human error rather than malicious attacks. In fact, almost two-thirds of the incidents reported to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office were due to human error. The most common type of security breach occurred when someone sent data to the wrong person.

Other common causes of data loss include power outages, natural disasters, equipment failure or malfunction, accidental deletion of data, unintentional formatting of hard drives, hard drive read/write head damage, software crashes, logic errors, firmware corruption, and more. Using the computer after it shows signs of failure, physical damage to the hard drive, laptop theft, spilling coffee or water on the computer.

In general, data recovery techniques fall into two types. Software-based and repair or replacement of damaged hardware components in a lab environment.

Most often, software-based approaches are used. This involves the use of specialized utilities that can interpret the logical structure of the question store, read the required data, and deliver it to the user in a format that can be used for further copying.

In the most serious cases, physical repairs are carried out by professionals, for example when some mechanical or electrical part of the drive fails to work properly, in this case, all the measures are directed towards a one-time extraction of the critical content, without the possibility of continued usage of the affected device.

Backup is the process of creating a copy of data on your system that can be used to recover if the original data is lost or damaged. If you deleted the old files from your system, you can also use your backups to restore copies of the old files.

Many businesses and organizations protect critical data with backups, which are a key component of an organization’s disaster recovery plan and business continuity strategy.

Data backup is therefore the practice of copying data from a primary location to a secondary location to protect the data in the event of a disaster, accident, or malicious act.

This includes documents, media files, configuration files, machine images, operating system and registry files. Basically, you can save any data that you want to keep as backup data.

One easy way is to back up your files to removable media such as CDs, DVDs, new Blu-ray discs, or USB flash drives. This is useful in small environments, but large amounts of data may need to be backed up to multiple disks and recovery may be difficult. Also, you should store your backups somewhere else. Otherwise, backups may be lost in the event of a disaster. Tape backup also falls into this category.

Many vendors and cloud providers offer backup-as-a-service (BaaS) solutions that allow you to move your on-premises data to public or private clouds and recover data from the cloud in the event of a disaster. BaaS solutions are easy to use and have the great advantage that data is stored remotely. However, when using the public cloud, you must ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards. Also, keep in mind that the cost of storing data in the cloud is much higher than the cost of deploying similar storage on-premises.

Yes we can and have been doing so very successfully for a while.

We use several state-of-the-art methods to extract data from mobile phones/smartphones and tablets. This includes very advanced forensic  solutions used by the police and government.

These advanced methods give us access to your phone’s data that other people can’t. For example, PIN-locked BlackBerry, Samsung, Android, iPhone-locked smartphones, or inoperable smartphones due to physical damage, etc