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In a data center of the cloud provider OVH in Strasbourg, millions of customer data were finally destroyed in February 2021. Apparently, the fire protection measures were not sufficient. What about your information security measures? Do you have backups of all important data at a remote location to be immune to such a disaster?

For these issues and more, the international standard ISO 27001 has appropriate measures available from its Annex A. Contact us to discuss the state of information security in your organization.

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