d.strom, cissp, gsec, gsna on May 24th, 2010

Pay attention, everyone – You should never have the only copy of your important files be stored on your flash drive. It will die (or be lost or be stolen). If this is the case, you may be completely out of luck. I had a friend give me a flash drive this past weekend. The [...]

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d.strom, cissp, gsec, gsna on August 28th, 2009

“Backups are the disaster recover plan!”, he emphatically said. And so began the conversation… Of course, backups are a part of the disaster recovery, but not the complete plan. Just last night I found out about a local business whose server crashed. They had been dutifully performing backups. The backup subsystem reported that backups had [...]

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d.strom, cissp, gsec, gsna on December 8th, 2008

Do you know you data, computers and networks? I mean, really know them? The end of the year is a good time to take stock of your security measures and operational practices and do some maintenance. I like to ask the question Where are we? at the end of the year. What is being done [...]

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d.strom, cissp, gsec, gsna on July 18th, 2008

Small business is confronted with a significant decision when it comes to the backup of their important data. Should a local solution be implemented, or should an on-line service be used? I’ve just begun experimenting with a relatively new service called getdropbox.com. getdropbox.com is a relatively recent entry into the fray of on-line storage and [...]

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