Having an effective, up-to-date and well-documented backup and recovery strategy is a key component to minimizing the impact of data loss or compromise – whether it occurs from a disaster or not. Backup planning involves examining the needs and operations of your organization. Once you’ve determined your backup needs and how your backups will be stored, maintained and accessed, you need to think about recovery. What steps will you need to take in order to get your organization up and running quickly?

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Earlier today we (McAfee AVERT Labs)posted a blog entry: RealPlayer Zero Day Exploit Hits the Web. Well RealPlayer responded RealQuick. In less than 24 hours they managed to ship a patch. That’s what I call rapid response. Real also states that more information will be posted on their Security Updates & Incident [...]

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In 1975, Frederick Brooks wrote a classic book on software project management called The Mythical Man-Month. In the book, he famously argued that adding more people to a development project will hinder rather than help to get things done faster. The reason is that having more people working on the project introduces a non-linear overhead…
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If you had 30 seconds to gather your most valued possessions, what would you grab? In the world of security, IT security professionals need to have a plan in place to make decisions in a swift and intelligent manner when facing a crisis.
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This is a great blog post by Charles Ross [...]

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Below I’ve provided a set of bulleted points to consider, covering each of the four types of organization involved in the ecosystem of cellular handset security.
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Ollie Whitehouse of Symantec has a great blog on the ecosystem of cellular handset security:
Platform Providers
• Prevention: The year is 2007, and while I have to [...]

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