The Mayan apocalyptic prophecy, if there was any, was not confirmed and the world didn't come to the end, as we all are aware by now! This doesn't mean that your Excel workbooks are safe. Excel Apocalypse can strike at any time, if business continuity activities are not performed daily to maintain service, consistency and recoverability. 

Excel developers in small businesses and global corporations alike face similar constant threats: 

• Data loss from hardware malfunctions, power outage, accidental file deletion or corruption
• Lost or forgotten passwords
• Loss or theft of removable media containing business or sensitive personal data
• Cyber security attacks
  
  

The need for backups has not changed, because people have not changed. Our hardware is more reliable, but we are not. One of the largest causes of lost data is human error. Someone deletes something that they shouldn't. 

And even our vastly increased hardware reliability is not going to compensate for the fact that computers and data storage media are carried everywhere. Not to mention that, if data becomes corrupted in a way that is not immediately detected, even the most sophisticated technologies will simply protect the corrupted data !

An 'apocalyptic' message displayed by Excel 2010 while opening a corrupted workbook.
Recovery is rarely 100% successful

A corruption warning as shown in Excel 2013

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If you have an Excel Prepper mentality, please click any of the links below to find out, if our articles and software products can be of any assistance to your business continuity and resiliency plan:

• Continuous data protection software using spreasheet version control
  
  
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• Control corporate security by recovering Excel passwords
  
  
• Removable storage media loss: How to transport business data securely
  

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