Data is fragile, unique, and priceless. Every year businesses fail, reputations are ruined, and billions of dollars are lost
because of inadequate investment in data protection and professional data recovery services. In fact, according to The
Definitive Handbook for Business Management, 60-90% of companies that don't have a proactive disaster plan find themselves
out of business within 24 months of experiencing a major disaster.

At Stronghold Data we have identified six key threats and challenges to your organization's data security:

Outages and natural disasters

Power outages or failures that create power surges, spikes, and sparks are the most common form of data loss related to natural
disasters. Earthquakes, tsunamis and electrical storms can all create power outages, or - as with fires and floods - pose a more
immediate physical threat to data protection.

Regulation of data protection

In the process of doing business, many organizations collect increasingly large amounts of personal data from
their customers. Although this data must be made readily available for legal purposes, it must not be disclosed
to unauthorized persons or organizations under any circumstance.

Human threats

Whether the harm is intentional or not, people are the greatest threat to data security a business will face. The prevalence of
malicious or neglectful employees, who leak, lose, corrupt or exploit sensitive data, has been well documented.

Damage to media or hardware

Media and hardware can be easily damaged, lost, or stolen. Even if it survives all these hazards, the average life
expectancy for a hard drive is just three to five years. Without data backup, the information stored within may not be
recoverable.

Security breaches from hackers, worms and viruses

It estimated that soon the total number of computer viruses will top one million. Meanwhile hackers around
the world are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their pursuit of financial and other valuable data.

At Stronghold Data we understand the data protection and recovery challenges faced by today's businesses. Since our inception, our
focus has been on the creation of a comprehensive suite of professional data protection and recovery solutions that will address
each of these issues. At the core of these data protection and recovery solutions, is our secure offsite data backup facility,
which provides businesses with a worry-free environment in which to store their valuable electronic data.