It’s 10 o’clock. Do you know where your data is? Chances are, it’s nestled snugly in its database. But chances are that it’s also less secure than you might think. Even in sophisticated systems with backups and failover plans, data loss is possible. And importantly, it can happen without you realizing it’s even possible – at least, not until it’s too late.

Let game developers develop games. It doesn’t exactly sound revolutionary. But back in the day, that’s not always how things worked. Every game had its own systems for things like stat tracking, item purchases, user entitlements (in-game items a user has purchased or unlocked), and game devs often got bogged down building bespoke functionality into each of their games to handle these user features.