Protecting client data is a business-critical issue for an accounting firm. In addition to the privacy surrounding individual tax returns, CPAs handle returns for businesses of all sizes. Any interruptions caused by data loss can have serious consequences ranging from severe penalties to loss of reputation.  

Ever since it was designed to protect public company investors, compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has become the de facto global standard for ensuring that electronic records and audit trails are retained and auditable for long periods of time and recoverable after a disaster. The Sarbanes-Oxley legislation passed in 2002 created the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), which now oversees regulation, registration and inspection of all CPAs.

While some firm use tape as their data backup system, tape is unreliable, with failure rates that are quite high. If data is stored onsite and the firm suffers a pandemic event such as a fire, the event would destroy both the operational data and the backup data. The cloud is the safest alternative. 

With EDSI and Veeam Cloud Connect offsite backup best practices, your internal controls and procedures are 100% audit-proof. You will be able to continually test DR systems and recoverability to document the tested recovery times for key business systems and processes.

To learn more about how EDSI Veeam Extreme backup and recovery services meet the special needs of accounting firms, please fill out the form below, or give us a call us at (866) 302-EDSI (866.302.3374).