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Originally Posted by greencreeper
It's called "business continuity" - usually you have a contract with people who get you going again within hours in the event of disaster or theft. There's a company near me (well, near Ikea in Wakefield) that has a big truck full of networked PCs that just polls up and hey presto. So even if the office burns down you can still carry on. I think it's amazing what can be done these days 
Any company supplying a business should supply to your specifications - neon pink with fluffy trim shouldn't be a problem. Don't entertain them if they're not prepared to work for your custom. |
Cheers for all the advice given by everyone so far
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Invest in more security while you're at it - or have a security review done.
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I doubt that as a small firm there was much more that we could have done to prevent this. We'd had a couple of "attempts" in recent weeks. Dunno now it seems like co-incidence if someone was not trying to probe for weaknesses. As a result all windows had had security lokcs upgraded - only way in would have been to break through them.
Our burglar alarm company now says they visited us 3 times that night The first, late evening, we now know they cut the phone lines (security company monitoring service called a keyholder saying there was a monitoring fault, it needed an engineer to fix, who would come in the morning). The belief was the alarm was still active, but from now on when triggerred noone would know. Stage 2, sometime around 2:00 am, they returned and pulled off the external alarm sounder. They niked a wheelie bin from someone to do this.
Stage 3, over an hour later they would have returned en masse, to literally smash and jemmy open the external deadbolted door (needs new door and frame), jemmy off all foour alamr keypads and internal sounders, and then calmly unlplug all the PCs on three floors that they wanted, leaving behind keyboards mice, leads, etc, and waltzing off into the dawn. All of this right under the nose of a local authority CCTV camera that has 24hour monitoring, but for that night conveniently pointed the wrong way.
So now we get ourselves sorted, buy loads of replacement PCs, and wait to be retargeted, cos now they know that everything really will be brand new and worth having
