Case Study: Mid-Sized Technology Company achieves data-breach prevention and rapid recovery with Carbonite Endpoint Backup

How Carbonite Endpoint Backup prevents a data breach when an employee accidentally leaves his laptop in a taxi

Carbonite Endpoint Backup protected a mid-sized technology company after an account manager, Ryan, accidentally left his laptop in a taxi while carrying the only copy of a customer presentation and other sensitive sales data. The company had already deployed Carbonite’s endpoint client via Active Directory to encrypt and back up files to an Azure-hosted vault, minimizing exposure and bandwidth through global deduplication.

When Ryan lost the laptop, IT sent a secure web link so he could download the presentation to a colleague’s device, executed a remote data delete to wipe the laptop if it connected to the Internet, and used Admin Restore to provision and fully restore a replacement laptop the same day. The result: no data breach, the meeting proceeded, and Ryan experienced minimal downtime.