A fire at a South Korean government data centre a week ago, caused a catastrophic data loss and paralysed public services – a stark lesson in risk management. This single-point failure shows that even technologically advanced nations are vulnerable without a robust disaster recovery plan.

Such an event could have been prevented by a straightforward, cost-effective audit. An audit asks the fundamental questions:
✳️ Where are our backups?
✳️ How frequently are they updated?
✳️ Can we successfully restore from them?

A simple review would have identified the critical gap of having no off-site backups. Adhering to the long-standing “3-2-1 rule” (three copies, on two different media, one off-site) could have averted this total loss.

Breakpoint believes in calculating risks, not ignoring them. We support organisations in implementing cost-effective system redundancies to mitigate such failures.

Contact Breakpoint to talk about how we can help you ensure your operations are resilient.

NIRS fire destroys government’s cloud storage system, no backups available