Backup and Data Recovery

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Robert John Robinson

Dear Natural England,

- Could you please tell us what technology you have in place for data backup and recovery and when these services are coming up for renewal?
- Could you please let us know if you still use tape technology to backup and restore - YES / NO
- How many staff currently have responsibility for the operations of your Backup and Recovery?
- Could you please indicate the senior member of staff (outside of procurement) responsible for evaluating and procuring backup and recovery technology?
- Do you have an Air-Gapped solution in place for Backup ? YES / NO
- Do you have the ability to recover data if you were Cyber Attacked ? YES / NO

Yours faithfully,

Robert John Robinson

SM-NE-FOI (NE), Natural England

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Natural England Access to Information Team,

Dear Robert John Robinson

Access to Information Request - Acknowledgement - FOI2023/00290

Thank you for your request for information, which we received on 14 April
2023. We are dealing with your request under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000.

You asked for:
- Could you please tell us what technology you have in place for data
backup and recovery and when these services are coming up for renewal?

- Could you please let us know if you still use tape technology to backup
and restore - YES / NO

- How many staff currently have responsibility for the operations of your
Backup and Recovery?

- Could you please indicate the senior member of staff (outside of
procurement) responsible for evaluating and procuring backup and recovery
technology?

- Do you have an Air-Gapped solution in place for Backup ? YES / NO

- Do you have the ability to recover data if you were Cyber Attacked ? YES
/ NO

Your request is being considered and we will send out our response within
the legal deadline of 20 working days which is 16 May 2023. If, for any
reason we are unable to meet the deadline we will keep you fully informed
of the reasons for this.

Yours sincerely

Farah Afshan
Adviser, Access to Information
Legal, Governance and External Affairs
Natural England

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Dear Robert John Robinson

Please find attached Natural England's response to your request for
information.

Yours sincerely

Farah Afshan
Adviser, Access to Information
Legal, Governance and External Affairs
Natural England

[Natural England request email]

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