Sunday, 19 May 2013
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The Payment Card Industry Data Security standard requires rendering sensitive cardholder data unreadable anywhere it is stored. However, decommissioned drives are still operable and their data is still readable. Even data striped across many drives in a RAID array is vulnerable to data theft. Data center administrators therefore have good reason to want to encrypt their data at rest.
Storage encryption has evolved to cover different areas in IT. This list will tell you what different products are available and what they offer.
The retail industry remembers the theft two years ago of more than 45 million credit card data numbers. TJX and its subsidiaries have been dealing with the monetary, legal and reputational impact ever since. Gijo Mathew, vice president of Security Management at CA shares lessons to be learned from that fiasco.
To run their business and comply with regulations, firms need to protect their mission critical information. To do this effectively, they need to use the right policies, procedures, personnel, and products, balancing the cost of protection against the value of their data in the process. This white paper explains how, and shares best practices.
Whether you work in a large or small organization or you are a home user wanting to secure your hard disk information, securing your precious data assets in today’s world is a must. The perils of data loss loom large. A carefully-planned data protection and back-up policy can avert a major disaster for any organization.
With all the uncertainty surrounding the world economy right now, organizations are under even more pressure to look at ways to reduce their CAPEX and OPEX. Deduplication is one of the hottest topics in the storage industry at the moment because it has the opportunity to usher in a new paradigm in cost savings.
This paper provides an overview and explores the benefits of the Overland Storage remote site backup solution. The REO SERIES™ Disk-Based Backup and Recovery Appliances with REO Multi-SitePAC™ software combine to provide robust and easy to use data protection at remote sites.
Making the Internet more widely available for its staff and students Internet connection in hard-to-reach locations on the campus and in heritage buildings, Chiang Mai University has effectively set a new standard for information access among the region's educational institutions.
