On Issues, Strategies and Solutions for Computer Security and Disaster Recovery in Online Start-ups

Vast majority of entrepreneurial ventures want an online and offline business model. Quite a good number would prefer their dealings occur strictly online. However, very few know what it takes to aim at achieving 99.999% availability, this is a key goal in deploying Computer and information technology (IT) solutions. In this present world of Information Technology there is an increase in threats faced by small medium businesses and enterprise on online platforms. More companies are vulnerable to attacks/threat such as DDOS, Malwares, Viruses, Ransomware etc. Entrepreneurial venture’s adoption of IT solutions with security in view, in addition to a disaster avoidance, mitigation and recovery plan or strategy can help in this respect. This paper suggests such issues to be considered and strategies to adopt in IT security and avoiding disaster and solutions to remedy disaster.