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SonicWALL® Continuous Data Protection (CDP)


2010
07.19

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Any backup is only as reliable as its ability to restore business data and applications when they are needed most. The SonicWALL® Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Series offers end-to-end backup and recovery solution for SMBs.

CDP delivers automatic, transparent backup that ensures data, applications and systems are reliably protected from common user error, hardware failure, deletion, potential disaster and malicious attack. Integrated scheduling offers administrator controls to perform backups continuously in real time or automatically on a routine basis for both files and database data set. CDP integrated scheduling performs daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly backup at a specific desired time for optimize backup operation and network resource utilization.

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Mobile Workers Security


2010
06.22

Posted in DISASTER, FIREWALL, INFRASTRUCTURE, IT Policy, Management, Network, RECOVERY, Security | No Comments »

The increasing importance of mobile workers in today’s businesses has been acknowledged. The mobile worker population is split into three main segments, home-based mobile workers, office-based mobile workers and non-office-based mobile workers.

Organisations should develop a proactive policy and strategy that embraces new ideas and methods to create a secure mobile workplace. “Secure mobility” is typically defined as the ability to provide employees and customers with secure “anytime, anywhere, any device” access to the corporate network.

One typical security problem that remote users may encounter is the transfer of viruses or other malware via memory cards or sync connections from infected mobile devices to laptops. Then, when infected laptops plug into a corporate network, there is the potential of further infection of internal corporate resources, possibly causing substantial damage to valuable and sensitive information. However, this is not the only security problem affecting mobile devices. The loss of data privacy that can result from a misplaced, stolen, or improperly used phone can also severely compromise corporate information.

Educate employees to use only devices that are provided by company. There are technologies to prevent unauthorised access to the network. For example, Network Admission Control (NAC) enforces policy for remote devices connecting to the corporate network, and Wireless detection devices Install wireless detection technology on your wireless networks to monitor unauthorised wireless users and the deployment of rogue access points.

There are technologies to prevent compromise of the endpoint: Client Security Software’s, Host-based Intrusion Detection/Prevention Software (IDS/IPS), and Anti-Spywares. There are technologies to prevent information loss or data loss or exposure to information: Data Encryption, and Information/Data Leak Prevention (ILP / DLP) software’s. Monitor compliance with your organisation’s mobile policy

Benefits of Mobile workers:-
1. Improved employee productivity.
2. Eliminating traditional work boundaries and creating a more flexible workspace.
3. Improved client interactions.

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Physical Security


2010
06.20

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Considering the physical security, most organisations keep a surveillance camera, security guard and door access control. This we seen normal in physical security side. But physical security is more extended considering its threat. Threats to physical security come in many forms including natural disasters, emergency situations, and man-made threats. All possible threats must be identified in order to perform a complete and thorough risk analysis and to develop an appropriate and effective control strategy.

Some of the more common threats to physical security include:-
1. Fire
2. Water
3. Earthquakes
4. Severe weather
5. Electricity
6. Lightning strikes
7. Sabotage/terrorism/war/theft/vandalism
8. Equipment failure
9. Loss of communications and utilities
10. Personnel loss

Organisation need to build proper and adequate mechanism to protect information from these security threats.

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Acronis® Backup & Recovery™


2010
03.03

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Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 is the next generation disaster recovery product family, succeeding the Acronis® True Image product line. It is designed to provide centralized management of all workstation and server backup and disaster recovery activities in Windows and Linux environments to help organizations of all sizes meet challenging Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs).

In addition, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 delivers an affordable deduplication option that helps IT departments to make a better use of their storage and network infrastructure, saving time and expense.

 Benefits

  • Minimize downtime and meet challenging RTOs

The entire hard drive contents can be fully recovered in minutes, instead of hours or days— including the operating system, applications and data.

  • Centralized management improves IT productivity

The backup and recovery processes of all workstations and servers are carried out from a single location on the network — includes a centralized dashboard to provide an overview of the configured and running operations on all systems, enhancing control and decision making.

  • Storage and network savings through data deduplication

The Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 Deduplication option provides affordable file- and block- level software deduplication functionality, helping organizations of all sizes to make a better use of their storage infrastructure and save costs.

  • Automate recovery with a simple, guided process

An intuitive interface makes it easy to install, quick to configure and deploy, and simple to use for both IT personnel and novices.

  • Free IT personnel from repetitive tasks

Grouping procedures enable policies and procedures to be implemented across a known range of systems, making it possible to carry out a mass recovery of many machines in minutes, rather than hours or days.

  • Fast and easy recovery

OS, applications and all data can be fully recovered in minutes, instead of hours or days.

  • Recover an entire system, single file or folder

Acronis image-based recoveries give you the granularity you need for any kind of recovery, putting you back in business in a hurry.

  • Acronis® AdvantageSM support and maintenance program

The Acronis® AdvantageSM program is an enhanced, multi-level subscription-based support and maintenance program. The first year of Acronis Advantage is included in the license price.

Key Features

  • Centralized management

Policy-based management of all backup and recovery operations from a single console.

  • Enhanced support for virtual environments

Backup and recovery of VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and Parallels virtual environments via a traditional agent-based approach. For a more comprehensive approach of backing up virtual machines and environments, Acronis also offers Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition .

  • Data deduplication

File-and block-level deduplication eliminates backup copies of the same data and delivers substantial storage cost savings.

  • Scalability

Support as many as thousands of machines, backing up to multiple storage nodes.

  • Monitoring

Dashboard provides an overview of all configured and running operations, highlighting any processes that require attention.

  • Advanced scheduling capabilities

Backups can be triggered based on preset events and conditions.

  • Advanced encryption technology ensures data security

Provides extra layers of security to ensure that the backup data is protected.

Ref:- Acronis