For management
Backup is a matter for the boss.
An encryption attack, a fire or an operating error – without a working backup, a company comes to a standstill. AegisGrid makes sure you stay able to act and gives you the evidence that legislators and insurers expect.
What is at stake?
Without data there are no orders, no invoices, no payroll. What matters is not whether a backup exists, but whether it can be restored quickly and completely in an emergency – and whether an attacker was able to make it useless beforehand.
AegisGrid is designed for exactly this question: every backup is complete in itself, can be locked against deletion and checked regularly for integrity.
- Protection against ransomware: immutable backups (WORM) that cannot be deleted until a lock expires.
- A second copy off site: back up locally and to a second site or the cloud storage in one run.
- Provable quality: checks of the stored data, automatic check restores and a signed evidence report every month – more about the evidence.
- Traceable: deletions and interventions in the backups are logged, changes to the configuration arrive by email.
- No dependence: your own backups can be restored even after the licence has expired; nothing is ever deleted because of a licence.
- Management's notebooks, too: backups run in the background on the road and continue after every interruption – more about notebooks.
- Predictable costs: your own operation or Managed Backup – you decide.
Duties you should know
In many companies, backup is no longer a voluntary service but a legal requirement.
GDPR, Art. 32
Requires the ability to restore the availability of and access to personal data in a timely manner after an incident – and regular testing of the measures.
NIS2 Directive, Art. 20 and 21
Names backup management and disaster recovery explicitly as a minimum measure. Management must approve the measures and oversee their implementation. Operators of critical infrastructure must additionally prove their precautions to the national authority (in Germany, the BSI).
Insurers and banks
Cyber insurers and financing partners increasingly ask for separate, tested backups. AegisGrid provides the technical basis for this.
AegisGrid supports you in meeting these requirements – with a signed evidence report that documents backups, restores and check restores month by month. Whether your company falls under NIS2 and which measures are needed in detail depends on size and sector – we will gladly advise you.
Why the provider's location matters
Backups contain everything: customer data, contracts, personnel files, trade secrets. AegisGrid is developed in Germany by MSD Computersysteme GmbH, which has been providing IT services to mid-sized businesses since 1990. You decide where your backups are kept: on your own premises, at a second site or in the AegisGrid cloud storage – there exclusively in certified data centres in Germany.
This means that software, operation and contract are subject to German and European law – without any transfer of your backup data to third countries.
At a glance
- Provider based in Germany
- Development in Germany
- Freely selectable storage locations, cloud storage in Germany
- Data processing agreement (Art. 28 GDPR)
- Personal contacts
Questions from management
Do we need our own IT specialists for AegisGrid?
No. With AegisGrid Managed Backup, MSD Computersysteme GmbH takes care of installation, updates, monitoring and regular restore tests. If you have your own IT department or an IT service provider, they can also run AegisGrid.
How quickly can we work again after an attack?
That depends on the amount of data, the lines and the target systems. Every AegisGrid backup can be restored on its own, and a local copy shortens the restore considerably. In a pilot project we measure the restore time for your most important systems.
Do we automatically comply with NIS2 with AegisGrid?
No, no software alone makes a company NIS2-compliant. NIS2 requires a set of organisational and technical measures. AegisGrid supports the area of backup management and disaster recovery and provides evidence for it: a tamper-proof log, the results of checks and check restores and a signed monthly report.
How good is your backup today?
In a short conversation we clarify where you stand and what a pilot project can show you.