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Third-party patching: Prudent or perilous?

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Author: Bill Brenner, Senior News Writer
Date: 28 August 2006

Security patches issued by third parties have become more prevalent in recent months, and while some security pros endorse them, others say they're more trouble than they're worth.

Spyware attacks hit new high

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Author: Tash Shifrin
Date: 25 August 2006

Spyware infections this year have hit the highest levels since 2004, security experts have warned.

Are tape backups a thing of the past when it comes to disaster recovery?

News
Date: 25 August 2006

I guess we have to look at disaster recovery, when it comes to tapes, in order of priorities. So, if we're talking about your most critical applications nowadays -- your most critical data -- tape backup is actually losing favor to disk backup or data replication.

The most important aspect of data protection when it comes to DR?

News
Date: 25 August 2006

You could answer that with one word really, and I would have to say "testing." Just "testing." Whatever you do when you're protecting data, whether it's a backup, whether it's replication, whatever it is, make sure that you test what you put in place. Just because the vendor's glossy ad said that theproduct allows you to restore "virtually in seconds," I wouldn't necessarily take their word for it.

How to improve recovery time for email and file servers without spending a fortune

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Date: 25 August 2006

This is a growing concern in the industry today because we've seen data growth at 50-60% on a yearly basis. The file servers are getting huge. Mail servers are becoming just impossible to manage or to restore. And a lot of that difficulty is caused by a fear of making an actual decision with respect to the data because of all these compliance issues -- we're afraid to delete data now because that may get us in trouble, so we've seen these servers grow to become enormous.

How to identify what data to replicate and what data to simply backup

News
Date: 25 August 2006

It goes back again to the value of the data to your organization -- or the impact of losing access to this data. Typically, from a business continuity perspective, the best way to establish this is through what we call a "business impact analysis," which really measures the impact of an outage on your revenue stream or your organization from a public perception point of view.

What do tiered storage and ILM have to do with disaster recovery?

News
Date: 25 August 2006

That idea ties back into the topics of data growth, data control, data management and recoverability. Once you start categorizing your data based on criticality and recovery priority, it gives you an indication of your data segments. We have our high-priority data, we have our medium criticality data and we have our low restore priority data.

What is the difference between RPO and RTO in data storage?

News
Date: 25 August 2006

The recovery point objective (RPO) and the recovery time objective (RTO) are two very specific parameters that are closely associated with recovery. The RTO is how long you can basically go without a specific application. This is often associated with your maximum allowable or maximum tolerable outage.

Security Blog Log: Opinions abound on IBM/ISS deal

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Date: 25 August 2006

Bloggers ponder what IBM's acquisition of ISS says about the industry as a whole. Is the end in sight for independent security vendors?

Aren't backups and archives essentially the same thing?

News
Date: 25 August 2006

The answer to that can be a "yes" and "no." If we look at a very high level, a copy of data is a copy of data, and that's where a lot of people confuse both as being somewhat the same -- one copy is just kept longer. When we start digging into what a backup is for and what an archive is for, that's when we really start seeing the distinction between the two.

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