{"id":5092,"date":"2015-01-09T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=5092"},"modified":"2014-12-03T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T17:06:38","slug":"saas-five-ways-to-lose-your-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/saas-five-ways-to-lose-your-data\/","title":{"rendered":"SaaS: Five Ways to Lose Your Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

While security is typically the biggest worry users have about using cloud services, a related worry is\u00a0data loss<\/em>. \u00a0In 2013, the Aberdeen Group<\/a> reported that nearly a third of companies that have used SaaS services in the cloud have lost some of their data. \u00a0When selecting a cloud vendor, users are often primarily concerned with uptime SLAs and server performance, but they often overlook data backups when making a decision.<\/p>\n

Data loss likely happens more frequently than you might imagine. \u00a0Dick Csaplar<\/a>, director of Product Marketing at SDL,\u00a0wrote that<\/a>\u00a0“once an individual data element in a SaaS application gets changed and the application closed, there is little to no ability to recall the old data. \u00a0If a particular data field is over-written by an end-user, co-user, or contributing application, the original data is either lost entirely or becomes difficult and expensive to recover. Some SaaS providers do offer services to recover over-written or deleted data, but those services can take several weeks before the data is produced and be very expensive.”<\/p>\n

A report by the Aberdeen Group identified five ways that data is typically lost <\/a>when using cloud services:<\/p>\n

User Error.<\/strong> \u00a0This is the most frequent reason for data loss. \u00a0Users make mistakes. \u00a0Nearly two thirds of all data loss incidents are because of mistakes.<\/p>\n

Closed Accounts.<\/strong> \u00a0When an employee leaves, if their cloud accounts are closed, access to the data they had created or received may also be deleted. \u00a0Ten percent of organizations say that they lose data in this way.<\/p>\n

Hacker\/Theft.<\/strong> \u00a0Ten percent of users reported that they lost data due to an outsider gaining access to their system and data. \u00a0Often it just takes a hacker getting access to a single user’s account in order to compromise your data.<\/p>\n

Malicious Deletion.<\/strong> \u00a0Seven percent of organizations report problems where disgruntled employees have purposely deleted data<\/p>\n

Third-party Software.<\/strong> \u00a0Seven percent of organizations also report that they’ve had problems losing data when third party software is used with their SaaS applications, for example, for syncing or importing data.<\/p>\n

While it seems like problems like dealing with closed accounts and hackers may have a slightly higher probability of occurring in the cloud, none of these ways are really unique to SaaS cloud applications, they’re problems that business have had to deal with for some time in the on-premise world too.<\/p>\n

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While security is typically the biggest worry users have about using cloud services, a related worry is\u00a0data loss. \u00a0In 2013, the Aberdeen Group reported that nearly a third of companies that have used SaaS services in the cloud have lost…<\/span><\/p>\n

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