How safe is your data? - online or offline?

[Perfection]

The offline storage has threats like storm or flood removing the power supply to data or switching centre or flu incapacitating key staff, accident (fire, explosion or rogue JCB operator removing the centre or the landlines that connect it with the rest of the world), data storage breakdown, sabotage etc.

Take routine backup at regular intervals and keep it safe under lock at a different physical location.

[Perfection]

Be Aware, Get Safe Online

UK spends £3 billion a year on information security to prevent attack by cyber criminals. Banks are losing £33.5m last year to fraud.

Police crime units all over the world are getting numerous petitions for action on e-crime.

Cyber criminals are using the law to help protect their business models and making it a Safe Haven.

Absence of hard evidence is a serious problem.

Criminals do a number of medium type Card Not Present transactions. There’s no risk of prosecution because each crime is too small.

[wareupdater]

That is why I dont engage to online transaction if there are other options, specially bank transactions. I dont want to lose my hard earned money!

That is also why most of my banks are very near from my place. :)