August seems to be the month for security tips, so we thought we should publish some. There are certainly more than ten security mistakes to be made - and over the years we’ve seen plenty of people making them, so the hardest part of this list was narrowing it down to just ten. We considered using hexidecimal for our top “10″, but even squeezing in an extra six wouldn’t do enough to make the selection process easier. So after a harrowing process of elimination, we have… straight in at number 10…
10. Mistaking doing backups with testing backups
Backups are only good if you can use them. Recovery from backup media has to be tested on a regular basis.
And always remember to test recovery with the kinds of systems you will be using in a disaster recovery situation.