The term “digital dark age” was popularised by Terry Kuny in 1997, to describe the digital phenomenon that electronic media and information is easily lost or destroyed. Books from centuries ago are still accessible – but could you read that 250MB Zipdisk today?
The article has an excellent section on preserving your digital life – i love the term bit rot.
Your takeaway from this
This also applies to businesses and organisation and it starts with the most basic of cyber security steps – a good back-up.
It is probably time you checked that the back-up you rely on is up to the job. For information to check that you have a compliant, resilient back-up you need to read this.
And once you go down that rabit hole you will need to check out the ransomware triple threat in this set of articles:
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
