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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Cloud Backup for
Endpoint Devices

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According to Gartner, by 2015 more than
60% of enterprises will have suffered
material loss of sensitive corporate data
via mobile devices.

Armed with their own mobile devices and faster
wireless speeds, your employees are looking to
access corporate data on the move. They are creating,
consuming and storing mission-critical business
information on laptops, smartphones and tablets.
Sometimes those devices are corporate-issued,
but often they are using their own personal devices.

Imagine if an employee’s laptop or tablet containing
critical business data was lost or stolen: you could
remotely wipe the device to prevent anyone else from
having access to the information, but what if you’ve
never backed up the data? You too would lose access
to it. And how do you ensure your data and corporate
intellectual property (IP) is protected in this scenario?

As noted by Forrester Research1, in order to avoid
employees operating in an IT underground, you may
be one of many organizations that are developing a
Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD)2 policy to address
security concerns. Letting your employees use their
own mobile devices may boost employee morale, but
it also moves sensitive data outside the boundaries of
an enterprise’s data center onto devices that are out
of your control.

If you do not have a policy for backing up the data on
these endpoint devices, there’s a good chance your
employees have been backing up data themselves.
Some might backup data to USB devices, including
external hard drives, and some to unsecure public
cloud services such as iCloud. Others may use
sync and share software. In all cases, you face the
possibility of data being leaked outside your firewall.
Your corporate IP may be residing unprotected on
USBs which can be lost or stolen or might be getting
shared indiscriminately across multiple devices with
people who shouldn’t have access to it.

Even if your organization has implemented policies
to govern applications employees are permitted to
use on mobile devices to access corporate data and
configuring them so their memory can be wiped clean
when required, you still run the risk of losing access
to this data unless it is safely backed up to your
authorized data center.

Not having a policy for backing up endpoint devices
puts your corporate data at risk. To protect yourself
from threats to your competitive advantage, loss of
reputation and regulatory non-compliance, you need a
secure end-to-end data backup and recovery solution
that protects all of your data, including the data
residing on endpoint devices.

¹ Your workforce is already using their personal computers to boost efficiency. Instead of forcing them to operate in an IT underground, it’s time to develop
a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program that addresses security concerns while building a solid base for future innovation. – Forrester Research
² Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) is an alternative strategy allowing employees, business partners and other users to use a personally selected and
purchased client device to execute enterprise applications and access data. – Gartner Research

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According to MSP Mentor, 52% of
companies offering BYOD placed a
mobile usage policy in place that their
employees must agree to and sign.

Introduction
Thanks to the rampant popularity of tablets and
smartphones, the BYOD phenomenon is not going away.
As employees bring their personal devices to the office
your corporate IP now resides alongside family photos
and personal text messages. Have you ever wondered
what happens to your data when an employee leaves
your organization? What if the device is lost and gets
into the hands of someone who should not have access
to this information?
To protect unauthorized access and loss of corporate
data, you can obtain the consent of employees to wipe
the device of all data in the event of device loss or theft.
This is something your service provider can enable on any
devices employees use to access corporate data. However,
once you wipe the data, no one has access to it anymore –
including you.
Most organizations do not have a policy for backing up
data sitting on endpoint devices. So many employees
have been using their own methods to makes copies of
corporate data they consume and create, including USB
devices and sync and share software, but these methods
are not secure. They also move corporate data out of your
control, potentially putting corporate IP into the hands
of people who should not have access to this confidential
data. Imagine if your competition gets its hands on
sensitive information or if it reaches the media. Think of
instances where highly sensitive corporate information in
heavily regulated sectors such as healthcare and financial
services is leaked. Your business may just come to an end
and you may be left facing legal consequences.

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The Risk of Leaving Endpoint
Data Unprotected
Business decision makers understand the need for
safeguarding data on these devices in the same way they
protect all on-premise data that resides on your LAN,
but you may be holding off enabling this much needed
protection because of resistance from your employees.
For example, mobile workers who connect infrequently to
your enterprise network may oppose the installation of any
backup software on their laptops because they worry that
time-consuming backup jobs will impact the performance
of their machines. When it comes to personal devices,
including smartphones, end users are wary of installing
any applications provided by corporate IT. After all, they
contend, it is their device and so they have the right
to refuse to install any software that may harm their
smartphone.
IT managers may be tempted to look the other way when
it comes to backing up endpoint devices because it might
increase bandwidth use and lead to clogged networks
when mobile devices hop back on to corporate networks
after a long time and time-consuming backup jobs kick in.
They may also be concerned that managing the backup
of these devices will need special tools and strategies to
support the wide array of devices employees are bringing
into the corporate environment, leading to additional costs
and the need for completely new service providers and
investments in new infrastructure.
Whatever your reasons, not implementing a policy for
backing up the data on these devices can leave you
exposed to the threat of losing confidential information
and the consequences of data loss.

Figure 1: Asigra supports the backup and restore on a wide
range of endpoint devices and operating systems

Complete Endpoint Device Backup
Powered by Asigra
Our cloud backup solution powered by Asigra provides
organizations with a single solution to protect all data
in the enterprise, no matter where it resides, including
mobile endpoints. We can backup data and applications
from any device that holds your organization’s confidential
information. From enterprise servers to physical
and virtual machines to desktops, laptops, tablets,
smartphones and cloud-based applications, our cloud
backup service can backup all data seamlessly to your
own authorized, secure offsite data center.

Comprehensive OS support
The BYOD world is full of aficionados who swear by
particular operating systems and device brands, so we
understand that any solution to protect data on these
endpoints must be broad-based and include support for
multiple operating systems and platforms. Our cloud
backup service is hardware and software independent
and supports all major operating systems. Whether your
desktop or laptop users run Windows, Linux, or Mac
OS, our solution can protect the data on their PCs. It can

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also protect Apple iOS and Android devices, thereby
supporting the majority of tablets and smartphones
found in corporate environments today, whether they
are personal devices brought into the organization by
employees or issued by the company.

Bandwidth and storage optimized backups
Our cloud backup service uses incremental forever
functionality to make sure only changed files are sent over
the network to the backup repository. In addition, all data
is deduplicated and compressed before it is transmitted,
thereby ensuring efficient use of your bandwidth. Our
cloud backup solution also performs deduplication at the
target to efficiently store your data in our secure offsite
data center.

Secure backups
Our cloud backup service powered by Asigra encrypts
your data at the source and during transmission to the
backup repository using secure AES encryption to encode
the information to prevent unauthorized access during
the backup and restore processes and when it is stored in
backup repositories.

Intuitive and easy to use
We can configure your backups to run according to your
preferences to ensure your data is backed up at regular
intervals and that it is always protected. Our cloud backup
application lets employees run backup and restore jobs on
their devices if necessary, using a simple and user-friendly
interface.

Certified Endpoint Backup Apps available
for download
The Asigra Cloud Backup application for tablets and
smartphones that powers our cloud backup service is
available for download from the Apple App Store and
from Google Play, so your employees can download it for
free. This helps you overcome their objections about not
wanting to install a suspect custom application on their
personal devices.

For more information on our cloud backup services for endpoint devices or
to schedule a complimentary Recoverability Assessment contact us today.
About Asigra Cloud Backup
Award-winning Asigra Cloud Backup is an agentless hardware-and-software platform agnostic
cloud backup, recovery and restore software solution that supports servers, virtual machines,
desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones, cloud-based applications, enterprise applications and
databases enabling organizations to resume business operations quickly while reducing costs
and achieving peace of mind.

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