There has been an increase in Ransomware on the internet of late. This is usually in the form of an email that you open containing malicious programs which encrypts all the files on your computer and will hold you ransom to pay large amounts of money to gain access to your files again. Hence the name in that the criminals hold you at ransom to provide you with your data again.
Normal computer virus checkers do not pick up this ransomware as it is in many cases not considered as a virus by the virus checking software. Also traditional backup methods also does not help. If you look at traditional backups, they are usually on external hard drives or on the computer itself. If the ransomware infects the computer it also spreads to the connected external hard drive infecting the backup. If you make use of dropbox for backups, the dropbox will merely synchronise your infected fles to your dropbox account which renders all your backups useless.
Clubmaster provide a automated daily backup of your entire Clubmaster system to an internet cloud storage. This ensures that in case of any loss of data you will be able to restore the state of your system to a state it was in earlier that day.
In some cases computers crash and hardware breaks or the club burns down causing you to loose all data and backups held at the club. This is another benefit of having your backups off site in the cloud.
