Thieves Want Your Laptop and Your Data by John Beagle
Thieves find laptops easy prey because they are small, light and easy to handle. Anyone who takes their eye off a laptop in public, even briefly, may never see it again. While special theft protection devices are offered for mobile computers, experienced thieves often view this as little more... This includes encrypting data on the hard drive or by only accessing company data via Terminal Services or Citrix remote desktop operating systems," Cipollone says. ... "More important than protecting the laptop is protecting sensitive company data," says Anthony Cipollone, Tech Travel Agent for...

What are the Facts about Data Loss? by Lee Morrell
I have been in the data recovery business for many years and have read and heard many “facts” covering the causes, costs and trends of data loss recovery. I have also heard of all the best ways to backup data ensuring total loss of data never happens. ... I don’t know, and I feel most business owners would not know either until data loss actually happened, but please bear with me, more “at what point does data loss threaten survival of my business facts” follow: - 40% of companies in the Cost of Downtime Survey said 72 hours, 21% said 48 hours, 15% said 24 hours, 8% said 8 hours,...

Computer Forensics - Finding Out What The Bad Guys Did With Their Computers! by Abbie Frank
Computer forensics is a lot like the CSI investigation programs on the television. Using advanced techniques and technologies, a computer forensic scientist will reconstruct a possible crime using the data that one computer systems. This data may include email trails, files, hidden directories... It's up to the data recovery skills of the forensic computer personnel to capture and restore that data without modification. ... Although it's possible to clean and remove data from a hard drive, most people simply think that a delete key really removed the data.

Consequences Of Data Loss And Why Should Offsite Backup Be Used by Lee Morrell
There is a calculated trend in all business corporations and firms: when the enterprise is getting bigger, its support of data increases its complexity, volume and value. The larger your enterprise is, the more significant your data files become. The traditional tape backup can no longer produce... Consider the following fact: computer experts say that once data is lost, it can no longer be recovered to the full. ... Some data that contains pieces of valuable information will be forever lost in the digital space, with no hope of getting it back.

Data Loss - The 7 Most Common Symptoms of a Failed Hard Drive by Jason Perry
If your hard drive is clicking or making grinding noises, you are experiencing system blue screens or system freezes, an error message greets you with ‘drive not formatted’ or ‘operating system not found’, or lastly you are in a never ending loop of computer reboots…there is a very good chance... ADR Data Recovery is available to evaluate the damage and potentially recover your lost data. ... You should then make a note of what happened and consider contacting a company that specializes in data recovery.

Protecting Data in Today’s Fast-Paced & Uncertain Environment by Bud Stoddard
Protecting Data in Today’s Fast-Paced & Uncertain Environment Online server data backup and recovery takes hold   By Bud Stoddard, President & CEO, AmeriVault Corp.   Data, Foundation of Today’s Business   Data is not only the foundation of businesses in all...   To further data integrity, reliability and recovery, the massive amounts of data online are backed up to tape on a daily basis, and shipped to an underground vault for safekeeping. ...   Faced with increasingly narrow recovery windows and "zero tolerance" for disruption they will have no choice...

Electronic Discovery Services by Marcus Peterson
Electronic discovery is the process of locating and retrieving electronic data. These days, every company is storing its important information in the electronic format, in devices like CD ROMs, DVDs, hard disks, floppy disks, and others. Data is also being sent across the world in electronic... Electronic discovery enables the retrieval of such electronic data from the vast amounts of data available. ... These make data gathering, media restoration, data processing, document production and reporting more efficient.

What Is Clean Room Recovery by James Walsh
The objective of a clean room is to create air that is as pure and uncontaminated as possible by constantly removing pollutants that may occur naturally or be generated by humans, machinery, equipment and processes. Apart from the contaminants, factors like humidity, temperature and pressure may... Clean Room Recovery The term “clean room recovery” is used in the computer industry to mean repair of hard-disk drives or other data storage media as well as recovery of recorded data that can no longer be accessed for some reason.

Learn How To Make Data Backup Over The Internet! by Per Strandberg
Why should you backup your data on the Internet? There are several reasons. * The backup is located at a secure place for away from your computer. * It's is easy to do. * Free available disk space on your web site can be used for storage. * Disk space on remote server can be used for storage. ... To be able to make a full recovery of your data, make sure that you keep CD’s of all your installation programs and operating system in a safe place. ... Learn how at http://www.data-backup-and-storage.com/ftp-backup.html Normally you don’t need to backup all the content of your hard disk, to...

Hurricanes: Disaster Prevention - Recovery by Mario Ramis
Before the next time you hear hurricane --think inland flooding! Conduct another walk-through of your organization's business continuity plan. Look for business and computing changes since the plan was originally implemented, last tested, or revised. ... They will also probably want to review your business continuity and disaster recovery plans. ... Set in as many flashlights that you'll need around your office and data center. ... Mark your emergency flashlight positions on a floor plan that is kept off site (preferably as a part of your systems continuity and disaster recovery plan).