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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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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ARS Technica looks at Drobo, the “storage robot” designed to give you flexible and secure external storage via USB 2.0.
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This is a great review and a great product for the small business. It is virtually a plug-n-play storage devise that with back-up software would be perfect for a back-up system. The [...]

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In the case when data has been “lost” and there is no backup, don’t fret there is still hope! As daunting as it can be to feel the overwhelming stress of losing important files, it is reassuring to know there is still one last resort that can help you resurrect your data.
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A time comes when almost anyone working with computers experiences some sort of data corruption which leads to a loss of some magnitude. It is important to be aware that data devices can indeed break. In order to ensure that your data is safe it is imperative to understand the potential problems you may encounter. [...]

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