31 Dec

As business continuity management matures, a number of standards and certifications are emerging. Some of these standards are industry specific, but most are general and customizable to specific industry needs.

Auditing bodies that evaluate the standards of the organizations have also come into being and are actively evaluating and certifying the standard compliance levels of organizations seeking certification with these bodies. For instance, in the UK, The Business Continuity Certification is offered by the British Standards Institute (BSI). Certification by BSI is also recognized by ANAB (the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board in the United States). Organizations that have implemented ISO 27001 can apply for BSI certification.(more…)

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17 Dec

ISO/IEC 27001 is one of the recently introduced standards for information management and security. This standard was published in 2005 by the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). The title of the document that was published is “ISO/IEC 27001-2005 Information Technology—Security Techniques—Information Security Management Systems—Requirements”. However, it is popularly referred to as ISO 27001.(more…)

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3 Dec

Continuous Data Protection and Scheduled Backups are methods of transmitting enterprise data into data repositories for online or offline storage. Continuous Data Protection (CDP) is a process in which data is sent into storage even as it is being generated, modified, or changed. Scheduled Backup, as the name indicates, is a backup method whereby data is sent into storage at predefined timeframes known as the “backup windows”.(more…)

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5 Nov

Automatic backup of crucial application types and data files is the ideal. However, the identification of what is “crucial” to you is a manual process that cannot be avoided. You need to spend some time and effort in identifying the “crucial” file types and instructing the backup system to automatically backup the files identified by you every time the backup schedule kicks into action.(more…)

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22 Oct

Darwin is often attributed with the line “It is not the strongest and fittest of species who survive but the most intelligent”. While this statement was really not made by Darwin but by one of his eminent contemporaries, this can be aptly quoted here to underline the reality that only the intelligent, who plan for disaster can survive a holocaust.

Power outages, natural disasters, man-made disasters are persistent facts of life. Enterprises need to display their awareness of the potential loss of business that these calamities may cause by planning and putting in place disaster recovery plans that will help them continue their business despite the disaster.(more…)

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8 Oct

Online backup service providers claim that they offer integrity of applications and infrastructure and that their systems are periodically audited with third-party scans and audits. If that is so, audits and scans must reveal to the end user, the current status of the infrastructure and also provide them with a true picture of what is the actual infrastructure available with the online service providers. The unbiased third-party evaluation should also help online backup service providers ensure that they build up the necessary security and infrastructure that will meet with the approval of the auditors. The reputation of the business depends on it. So, what does the audit of the infrastructure cover?(more…)

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24 Sep

Businesses are mostly aware that a good backup and recovery strategy is essential to their survival in case of a disaster. Most businesses are often content with just bare minimum requirement and preparation for disasters. It is only in the face of a disaster that they realize that the approach was inadequate. The central part of a data protection strategy is a good backup.

However, more than half of all backups fail either in whole or in part. Most of them fail because of the same issues cropping up time and again. Issues such as media failure, human error and hardware failure are among the most common reasons backups fail. Let’s beats the odds and see what it takes to manage a successful backup project.(more…)

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8 Sep

A complete data backup strategy is important to your data security. Too many enterprises wait until disaster strikes before they think about a backup. With increasing mobility, the work environment in most organizations is undergoing a sea change. For most working professionals these days, the regular nine to five work day is a thing of the past. These new age knowledge workers are used to logging in from home, at work, in cafes, on the move at all hours of day and night.(more…)

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27 Aug

Data continues to grow at an exponential rate, and enterprises scramble to accommodate this growth based on incomplete information and throttled visibility. Without clear visibility into the storage environment, organizations struggle to manage current storage needs and anticipate future growth, resulting in overspending and missed service levels. Intelligent data backup and recovery practices are an important part of most business.(more…)

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13 Aug

Does every audit check cause you nightmares? Do you find yourself dreading what kind of information your auditor will call for? Do you wonder whether you will be able to provide the information? Do you heave a sigh of relief if you get certified as compliant at the end of the audit and wonder how you managed it? You would not be thus embarrassed or agitated if you but remember that ‘compliance’ is not a set of items extracted from logs and configuration files to be ticked off by an auditor. It is a process, a project that must run in parallel with every data protection and data backup project that you undertake.(more…)

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30 Jul

When disaster strikes naturally or due to a man-made error, the time to recover can make all the difference between continuity and closure for small and medium businesses. Businesses that have not taken note of this factor at the point of designing a data backup and recovery system are bound to experience the pain of failure. A good backup storage design pays a lot of attention to time to recover. This is especially important if the backup and recovery system makes use of online resources for backup and storage of mission critical data.(more…)

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