Disaster recovery and business continuity
The threat that employee data theft, natural disaster, epidemics and terrorist attacks make data loss prevention and disaster recovery a must-have for business continuity.
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Data loss prevention is a computer security term referring to systems designed to detect and prevent the unauthorized transmission of information from the computer systems of an organization to outsiders.
Disaster recovery is the process, policies and procedures of restoring operations critical to the resumption of business, including regaining access to data (records, hardware, software, etc.), communications (incoming, outgoing, toll-free, fax, etc.), workspace, and other business processes after a natural or human-induced disaster.
Offsite data storage can help your business by automatically backing up and storing, offsite, your critical data, by building custom storage systems for your data and even helping with your networking needs.
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Highlights
In 2009, we saw tighter regulatory mandates, more remote workers and increased focus on data loss prevention. These trends will continue into the new year. Moving deeper into 2010, SonicWALL foresees these and more emerging trends affecting industries across the board.
Symantec’s 2010 State of Enterprise Security study reveals that organizations are intent to double their efforts at shoring up their security infrastructure, considering the increasing security breaches, and initiatives such as ‘Cloud Computing’ that are viewed as being more problematic from a security standpoint.
Inmarsat and Ericsson are deploying equipment to aid relief work in disaster-stricken Haiti.
Organizations are not actively deploying prevention strategies. Research revealed that just 35% of workers feel that they are responsible for their own computer security when working remotely with 29% feeling no responsibility (IT dept does it) and 17% feeling it is a shared responsibility.
The Bhutan Kingdom's investment arm drives economic development by adopting the SAP platform in its key subsidiaries.
