Remote Backup as Part of a Disaster Recovery Strategy by Mike Colesante
New technologies and recent storm reports have forced many companies to review disaster recovery plans and data protection policies. Hurricanes striking the Gulf Coast and Eastern seashore have a significant impact on the businesses operating in their path. ... Recovery Time Objective (RTO) - The time objective to bring the system back on line following a failure Recovery Point Objective (RPO) - The acceptable amount of data loss from the last good backup prior to the point of failure Identify potential data loss events that can happen to your business.

Condoms for Your PC – Backup Your Data by Tim Flynt
Backup is important and it is usually ignored. It is ignored until some malware wipes out a critical document, a power surge burns the PC, or you look away for a minute at the airport and find your laptop is missing. Let's look at what you can do to prepare for such a catastrophe. ... Imagine your chagrin to find that you've spent hours each day to secure your data through carefully orchestrated backups only to get to a point at which you need to restore some of that data and you cannot do so! ... CAN YOU RESTORE – For all the great "feel good" aspects of a process that will backup your...

IT Audits: A Checklist by Joshua Feinberg
IT audits need to be as comprehensive as possible. To ensure you hit every area you need to during your IT audits, review this checklist. • IT Audits - Physical Security: To ensure that appropriate physical controls are in place to secure technology assets (servers, networking and... • IT Audits - Data Backup and Disaster Recovery Procedures: To ensure that data backups are being made and tested on a scheduled basis, sufficient to recover in the event of a systems failure, data loss, or other disaster.

Planning A Backup And Restoration Of Files For Disaster Recovery by Roger Stuart
The Backup utility creates a copy of data on a hard disk of a computer and archives data on another storage media. Any storage media such as removable disks, tapes, and logical drives can be used as a backup storage. While taking a backup of files, the Backup utility creates a volume shadow copy... Backing up a System State Data System State Data System State data contains critical elements of the Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. ... System Recovery In the event of a system failure, the recovery of the system is difficult and tedious for administrators.

Do You Have Something To Hide? Here's How by David Bolton
In these post 9/11 days, intrusion and lack of privacy are often justified by the glib phrase "If you have nothing to hide why worry?" Yet all of us at some time or other have something to hide without being a criminal. What if you’re planning a surprise party, buying presents or arranging a... There is a very dodgy practice in security- known as "security through obscurity" that works by not revealing how the secured data is stored. ... Don't worry if you don’t know what these names mean; they are all well established and verified means of encrypting data.

How to Secure your Computer Systems - 10 Tips for Small Business Owners by Andrew Mapp
As a Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator, a Certified Computer Forensics Specialist, Network and Security Consultant, Software Developer, and Data Recovery Expert, my passion for technology is undeniable. I also enjoy helping people, especially when it comes to my passion. ... Make sure that your password is secure. ... A common standard for secure passwords is to have a minimum of 8 characters, and be a mixture of letters, numbers and symbols. ... This white paper is centered on 10 important points to keep your computer systems secure.

Backup and Recovery for Smaller Organisations--How to Build an Effective Data Backup Strategy by Lee Morrell
There are many factors which will potentially determine your best data backup strategy. Regardless of your companies size the thought process should be the same. The main factors to take into account are the amount of data being backed up, how quickly you need to backup and more importantly, how... When you have answered the above, you are in a position to prepare a data backup and data recovery assessment which will addresses the following details: 1) What data needs protection? ... Building a Data Protection Strategy All data protection strategies contain three parts: the backup...

7 Critical Steps to a Bullet-Proof Backup System by Linus Chang
Imagine this - you arrive one morning to find that a faulty read-write head has crashed your server's hard disk overnight, rendering it useless. Or a small electrical fire has destroyed part of your office, including your server. This server was used to store customer lists, payroll details,... It is also important that you insert the right device, as having the 4th-of-June backup data on the 1st-of-January tape would make the right data very difficult to find. ... * 43% of companies that experience a severe data loss disaster, and that have no recovery plan in place, never re-open.

I Know What You Did Last Session: Basic Applied Cryptography by Jeremy Martin
While Janet was sitting in a cyber café sending emails to friends and surfing the web, there was a person sitting three tables away reading each email she sent before they ever got to the email server. During this period of time, the thief was able to get access to her bank account, passwords to... Companies use cryptography to make sure sensitive data stays confidential between the intended parties and the data stays intact. ... SSH: Secure Shell provides a terminal like tunnel that protects the data crossing the network and should replace clear text protocols like Telnet and FTP.

Strategies to Maximize the Life of Your Mac Hard Drive by Alex Bezborodov
Although Macs are often deemed the most user-friendly computers, many Mac users do not know much about computer maintenance. This is because Mac OS cleverly hides all the cumbersome applications it runs to keep the system secure and healthy. Unfortunately, while this maintains Apple’s signature... In this case, your best bet is to backup your data and replace the drive. ... Below, I recommend several procedures that can be performed by most Mac users without much difficulty, which will help safeguard your computer from data loss.