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Best Practices for Prevention And Recovery We’ve all heard the old adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In order to protect themselves on all sides, organizations should employ a security plan that covers prevention and recovery. A multi-pronged approach will create a defensive barrier comprised of antivirus, firewall, content filtering, vulnerability management and intrusion detection in order to prevent an attack, while employing a backup and disaster recovery plan that will help them recover in the event of a successful attack.
By L.D. Weller, 08/20/2004
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Centralized Backups Today's reliance on corporate computer systems and the information they contain continues to grow on a daily basis. Corporate systems today also have grown from single Mainframes with terminals to tens, even hundreds of heterogeneous systems spread across the globe. Companies can have Web servers running NT, Unix servers hosting their databases, and Novell File and print servers. Environments like these have brought an end to the days of tape drives attached to every server and standalone backups. Management has a comprehensive understanding of cost related to systems downtime, overwhelming administration of single system backups and the media involved. With these facts in mind, corporations have migrated to the centralized backup scheme, investing sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars into backup software, tape libraries and training for the staff to implement and manage just such an environment.
By Michael J. Gallagher, 03/24/2004
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Security Considerations for Enterprise Level Backups Backing up your data is an essential security measure in today's computing environment. Data has gained intrinsic value, either in the manpower needed to generate that data or in the significance of that data to your customers. While data has become more significant it also grows, by some estimates as much as 100% per year. Data loss, both accidental and due to theft, costs hundreds of millions of dollars every year. When taken as a whole one thing becomes clear, your data must be protected.
By Scott M Parrish, 03/24/2004
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The Oversight of Physical Security and Contingency Planning In today's ever-changing world of information assurance and network security, it can become extremely difficult to keep up on the latest vulnerabilities,viruses, patches, trends, technology, hacker behaviors and activity. It's easy for the information systems security professional to get caught up in attending the logical aspects of security: reviewing log files, making configuration changes, troubleshooting, and other technical duties the job may require.
By Andy S. Krupa, 02/17/2004
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The Disaster Recovery Plan The Business Continuity Plan (BCP) describes the steps an organization takes when it cannot operate normally because of a natural or manmade disaster. It may be written for a specific business process or may address all mission-critical business processes. Business continuity and disaster recovery are critical components used to ensure that systems essential to the operation of the organization are available when needed.
By Chad Bahan, 02/17/2004
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Systems Survivability The goal of this paper is to introduce the concept of systems survivability, and explore methods in which this broad concept can be utilized. Although much of this paper is based on personal experience in a healthcare setting, the ideas contained herein can easily be applied to any organization. However, due to the nature of this paper, it is not a one-stop solution to any systems problem; rather the intent of this paper is to (hopefully) make the reader think about how this concept can be applied to systems under their control.
By Douglas Lancaster,, 02/17/2004
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Recovering From Disaster: Implementing Disaster Recovery Plans Following Terrorism The purpose of this paper is to examine the process of disaster recovery following the biggest disaster in American history. More specifically, three aspects of disaster recovery, which were found to be the most challenging for many of the companies affected by the recent attacks, will be discussed.
By Scott Hannig, 02/17/2004
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Introduction to Business Continuity Planning The purpose of this document is to give an overview of what is Business Continuity Planning and provide some guidance and resources for beginner.
By Unknown, 02/17/2004
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Disaster Recovery Survivability Security Since September 11, 2001, Disaster Recovery has become one of the hottest topics in businesses and governments. Disasters as defined in, "So-Called "Small Disasters" Can Equal Big Trouble (Disaster Recovery Journal, Fall 2002, Vol. 15 No. 4)" by Ron Levine [1] are, "natural weather storms, tornados, hurricanes, fires, earthquakes, and explosions".
By Linda E. Ridgway, 02/17/2004
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Disaster Recovery Plan Testing: Cycle the Plan, Plan the Cycle From a management perspective, the primary objective of Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) testing is to evaluate whether or not the DRP is capable of restoring one or more business-critical processes to functionality within a specified period of time. At the end of the day a series of successful tests provides a high level of assurance for the business stakeholders, preferably with minimal associated costs and no disruption of services.
By Witney Krocker, 02/17/2004
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