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Best Practices for Backup, Archive, Recovery and E-Discovery - April 12, 2008
St. Peterburg Florida -- Many IT administrators at small and medium businesses (SMBs) are facing a new budget cycle as the New Year dawns. One of the items which many are considering investing in is data protection technology. Most have experienced an explosion in the amount of data requiring protection while not experiencing an equivalent increase in their IT budget. Additionally, the responsibility of complying with new governmental and industry regulations for data retention, archiving and electronic discovery has fallen squarely in the lap of IT staffs which stretches their budgets further.
Data Protection Has Become More Complex
Data protection used to be an easier proposition. You could simply designate a system as the backup server, install some backup software, attach a tape library and start backing up production servers to it. But, with the advent of critical production applications, server and storage virtualization, critical data stored on desktops and laptops, and increased recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO and RPO) data protection has become much more complex.
Companies Must Now Do More with Less
It is easy to say that organizations must be more current and comprehensive in their backup, recovery and archiving procedures. Yet, few companies have the luxury of being able to assign the resources to address all these tasks optimally. The reality is that most organizations now count on increased productivity to drive profits. This means accomplishing more with fewer resources.
New Data Protection Technologies Abound
For companies looking to improve their data protection technology and procedures, there are a bewildering number of point solutions and possible combinations for data protection and archiving to be considered. It was not long ago when the backup solution was based on one piece of software. Now organizations must decide on all the hardware, too, including the compatible and scalable nature of each piece. In addition, they must consider a number of capabilities: disk-to-disk backup, VTLs, replication, snapshots, CDP, de-duplication, sophisticated archiving, email archiving, data encryption and security. Many options exist and many more are coming.
Deciding on a Solution – Conventional Approaches Do not Meet Today’s Requirements
Traditional solutions for data protection, email archiving and SAN storage are too complicated. There are too many parts to manage and consider: software, hardware, disk, tape, network, SAN – the decisions are overwhelming. Once the technology decisions have been made, the pieces have to be put together which can take weeks or even months.
Total Solution Appliance Solves Many Problems
Now, more than ever, organizations need the best products available to provide them with effective data protection. A new approach for companies to consider for their storage and data protection is an all-in-one, automated solution preconfigured to address all data storage and protection functionality, usually called an “appliance.”
Organizations piecing a solution together will need to work with several companies. Each will have a comprehensive and in-depth view of what their specific product can do to address a particular problem. These vendors, however, do not have a total view of the organization’s requirements and are not able to address the entire problem. When buying individual components, an organization makes a huge trade-off. Buyers search for components optimized for their specific function; not for a best-of-breed total solution. This time-consuming purchasing process involves a complex set of comparisons to work with compatible vendors. An appliance vendor, by contrast, picks the best and most compatible components and takes ownership of them. Most SMBs will only solve their backup problem once. The appliance vendor has solved the same problem hundreds of times.
When a company purchases an appliance, it forgoes the relationship with the individual component vendors. Thus, an appliance vendor is motivated to install a reliable product because they will have to support it! The “data protection” appliance vendor will have a more holistic view of an organization’s problem and is more concerned that the entire data storage and protection solution works to satisfaction.
Upgrading an appliance is also simpler for the end user. When an organization upgrades, it can be sure that all components remain compatible with each other. With an individual components solution, an upgrade often results in an entire system overhaul. Finally, a data protection appliance allows a company to buy the capacity and capabilities it needs now and expand the appliance as the company’s requirements grow. The business dictates the functionality of a storage solution, rather than the reverse.
The conventional integration of a component approach requires manual integration and diagnostic activities that consume both human and system resources. An appliance addresses this problem by providing a pre-integrated simple-to-install solution. This is a benefit for all companies but is particularly useful for SMBs that normally have only a few minutes a day to address any one problem.
Selecting an Appliance Solution
Below is a short laundry list of things to consider when evaluating a data protection appliance:
Easy to purchase, install, manage and support.
Optimizes backups, archives, restores, disaster recovery and electronic discovery to meet corporate RTO and RPO.
Complies fully with regulated retention policies.
Efficiently uses media.
Automates daily functions and reduces administrative hours.
Provides an adaptable and scalable foundation for future data protection and storage needs.
In sum, organizations must look beyond the conventional approaches and toward recovery solutions packaged and implemented with appliance approaches that incorporate the best in component technologies. To do less will probably assure being an early casualty of the tremendous data changes coming in the 21st century.
The new PowerPath Encryption with RSA yields a number of advantages compared to other encryption technologies, such as gateway products, including easier deployment. PowerPath Encryption with RSA can be added to environments and is transparent to hosts, applications, replication, and backup infrastructure. It also offers built-in high availability, as the PowerPath Encryption with RSA provides a management appliance that is configured in redundant pairs for no single point of failure, compared to alternative solutions that need multiple appliances to provide high availability.
The new PowerPath Encryption with RSA also offers better scalability and centralized management. PowerPath Encryption with RSA provides encryption at the host and centralizes key management with RSA Key Manager for the Datacenter, which can support tens of thousands of hosts compared to other solutions that need additional appliances to meet growth requirements and cannot be centrally managed. It also offers better Flexibility, as the PowerPath Encryption with RSA gives users the ability to choose the LUNs (logical unit number) or volumes they want to encrypt.
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Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in storage, security and networking solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, EMC, NetApp, Juniper Networks, Hitachi, Symantec, Barracuda Networks, and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale, Tallahassee, Cape Coral, and Pembroke Pines.
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An Effective Disaster Recovery Strategy for Branch Offices - April 12, 2008
Tampa Florida -- The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season will start early this year, the second time in five years a storm will formed before June 1. As a result, experts are again predicting an above average hurricane year, estimating that there is a 74 percent chance a category three or higher storm will hit the U.S. mainland.
While the chance your business will be affected by a major natural disaster or terrorist attack is slim, other causes of unplanned downtime such as a hardware component failure, fire, power outage or surge, network attack or even human error are more prevalent. It is important to ensure your company has a reliable strategy for getting the business up and resuming normal business operations, no matter what the cause. Without a disaster recovery strategy the consequences to your business could be paramount. According to the Wall Street Journal, 92 percent of small businesses that experience significant data loss due to a major disaster go out of business within five years. You don't want to become part of this statistic.
With mission-critical data growth exploding in the small to midsized enterprise (SME) market-much of it on the edge of the network in branch offices-traditional disaster recovery solutions may not be enough to ensure business continuity throughout your entire organization.
Complete Restoration Disaster Recovery
In order to protect all company data regardless of physical location and to ensure business continuity across the entire organization, SMEs need to deploy a complete disaster recovery solution that integrates local backups and remote off-site vaulting in a single solution. Using a complete and integrated solution allows your organization to restore entire systems quickly, and get them back in the production environment as soon as possible after experiencing downtime. A complete bare metal restoration solution restores systems from the ground up-including the operating system (Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc.), business applications (Exchange, SQL, Oracle, Novell, etc.), user profiles and data files, in addition to reformatting drives.
The following details what SMEs should look for in a complete disaster recovery solution that protects their data center as well as data and systems in remote offices.
Quick Recovery
When it comes to quick recoveries and an SME's ability to resume normal business operations after experiencing downtime, the stakes couldn't be higher. Simply put, if customers are inconvenienced by not being able to visit a retail location, access a Website, email a sales rep, or receive requested information in a timely manner-regardless of the reason-they will move on to a competitor. The availability of services and products at headquarters and in branch offices is absolutely vital to the health of the company, making quick restoration of the IT systems that run the business a top priority. Minutes do matter.
Most SMEs do not realize that quick restores not only rely on recovering lost data, but also rely on rebuilding damaged or lost servers and workstations. Operating systems need to be restored, drives need to be reformatted, business applications need to reinstalled, data needs to be recovered and user profiles need to be restored. End users cannot do their job unless workstations and servers are returned to their normal state before downtime occurred. This takes time.
The most effective disaster recovery solutions speed up the systems recovery process by automating this process through scripting. Automatic bare metal restore allows administrators to perform a complete systems restoration to an existing system or to a new system with different hardware. While it typically takes a seasoned IT veteran a full day or longer to completely restore a system manually, there are disaster recovery solutions that allow staffers with little IT training to recover a complete system in less than an hour.
Off-Site Backups and Vaulting
In an effort to protect against data center outages and regional natural disasters, it is essential that SMEs implement off-site backups and a remote vaulting system that store data and system information at least 150 miles away. Tape rotation at a warehouse across town, a common approach of SMEs, does not provide the same level of off-site protection since the facility will most likely be impacted by the same disruption. The best backup and recovery solutions incorporate both local and off-site backups in one package. After first performing a local backup in the branch office, the solution replicates data to an off-site location where it is stored in a data vault and is easily recoverable.
Because bandwidth and server requirements could affect performance for end users, it is essential that SMEs deploy a solution that incorporates electronic data synchronization to off-site vaults. By only sending data that is new or has changed since the last backup, the solution requires less resources and dramatically reduces the amount of data that has to be sent over the WAN. This allows backups to be completed more quickly, efficiently and reliably. In the same vein, synchronization technology enables administrators to pause and re-engage in the middle of a backup if a connection is disrupted during the data transfer, preventing administrators from ever having to manually restart a transfer.
Vendor Neutral
When a disaster hits and remote offices are pulled off-line, SMEs don't always have the luxury of being able to replace their servers with the exact model or even the same brand. Often, they must make a quick replacement with what is available. Because of this, it is important that the company's disaster recovery solution is able to restore systems to different hardware. For example, an HP server needs to be able to be restored on a Dell box if that is what is available. This also gives SMEs flexibility with their purchasing decisions, allowing them to choose hardware that is the best suited for specific business needs and budget rather than letting interoperability inhibit choice.
Point-in-Time Recovery
Giving customers the ability to restore systems to a set point in time is an essential element of a complete disaster recovery solution. This is especially useful if a single system crashes and a database needs to be synched up with other end users. Email is another example. Point-in-time recovery allows administrators to recover deleted emails or files as needed or restore systems to a point in time within the past 30 days.
Simple Management
Most SMEs do not have the IT and staffing resources to dedicate to backup management and monitoring, making it essential that any disaster recovery solution be easy to use and automate as much manual process as possible. This is especially true on the edge of the network in branch offices where often there is no full-time IT administrator and a business staff member is typically tasked with starting the backup process each night.
It doesn't have to be this way. SMEs can make sure their disaster recovery solution is managed consistently from a central management console, giving a trained and dedicated administrator at headquarters complete access and visibility into the backup cycle. In addition, the solution needs to automate basic tasks, including the recovery process. This can help streamline IT management, prevent human errors and take business continuity responsibility off the shoulders of untrained business staff.
Scalability
Complete restoration solutions also need to be scalable to allow SMEs to expand their disaster recovery strategy in line with the business. It seems strange to think that a company can over-protect its IT systems, but it is nearly impossible to protect every server all of the time. SMEs need to determine what systems need to be protected and how fast they need to be recovered. Deploying a scalable disaster recovery solution that is flexible is a good start, as growing companies' needs can change quickly.
Some providers price their solutions on a per gigabyte of user data basis in conjunction with time-to-recovery needs. This ensures that SMEs are getting exactly what they require at an affordable price and that the IT budget is directly tied to the needs of the business.
Security
Another feature that SMEs may need is encryption technology that secures data as it is in transit and while being backed up and restored. Industry and government regulations are getting tighter every year, forcing companies-especially growing businesses-to plan for future compliance requirements, making it essential that all sensitive data is properly encrypted from the outset.
It is vital that SMEs take into account remote office computing when implementing their business continuity strategy, relying on a robust and complete disaster recovery solution that enables efficient backups and quick restores. Administrators need to ensure that they are able to manage the backup and recovery process from a central location, conduct complete restorations and recover systems to different hardware. Only then can SMEs be truly prepared for whatever Mother Nature throws their way.
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Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in storage and security solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, EMC, Juniper Networks, Hitachi, Symantec, Barracuda Networks, and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Palm Coast, Clearwater, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Maitland and Cape Canaveral
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Best Practices for E-Discovery, E-mail Archiving and Data Retention - March 29, 2008
Tampa Florida - Understand what your main problems are before you purchase technology.
The biggest mistake IT managers make when researching e-mail archiving is to not fully understanding the reasons for it. Often, companies are reacting to one problem of concern, such as an audit suggestion, which leads to rushing out to buy e-mail archiving technology for FRCP, Florida Sunshine Laws, PCI or Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and not taking into account productivity or storage problems.
Most companies will have more than one problem that can be solved with e-mail archiving and record retentation. Whether it be regulatory compliance, litigation support or storage management, make sure you understand all of your needs before you take the next step.
Create or update e-mail retention policy to reflect today's business needs.
Very few companies have an up-to-date record retention policy. An effective document retention policy will address what the document retention policy covers, the company data retention philosophy, responsibilities and procedures. It will also have retention timeframes for all types of records in a company including unstructured data like Microsoft Office files, semi-structured records like e-mail and structured records like mainframe databases. You will also want to create retention schedules that employees can easily follow and remember. Make these documents short and simple. Also document how long you will keep records (including e-mails). There is lots of good software to assist you with data migration or working with a local reseller or consulting firm is always an option.
Periodically perform a legal or regulatory refresh.
When you have a data retention policy, be sure to review it annually. Regulations and laws change regularly, and so must your data retention policy. New regulations are created regularly as well as judicial rules of evidence. Government regulatory agencies and the courts expect companies to be fully aware of new regulations and laws.
Include all stakeholders: legal, compliance, HR, finance, investor relations, engineering, production and administration.
A data retention policy affects every employee in the company and should reflect input from everyone. Create a cross-functional team that represents most business operations or departments. Interview a wide sampling of employees and departments to determine how and why they create documents; if they re-use or reference them later; and where they store the documents. This helps you create a retention policy that won't adversely affect the employees and their day-to-day work.
Focus on similarities in laws or regulations and create "high water mark" retention lengths.
Multipage retention schedules are rarely effective or followed. Simplify them as much as possible. Most data retention requirements are for minimum retention periods. Create "high water marks" for similar types of documents. For example, retention regulations for employment records vary widely from one year to 10-plus years. "It is easier for employees to follow one retention period that meets all retention requirements for all employee-related records than to try to remember many different retention periods," states Brian McCarthy CEO and Archiving Consultant for Sencilo Solutions of Daytona Beach. "Creating high-water marks for retention periods will also make it much easier to adopt automated e-mail archiving processes," says McCarthy.
Socialize your policy companywide.
Be sure to adequately inform employees about the new or existing policy and make it easily accessible. Many employees don't know if their company has a data retention policy or where to find it if there is one. All employees should be "trained" on a new policy, including knowing why the policy was created (legal, regulatory or other); how to use any new technology associated with the new policy; and consequences for the company and employee if the policy is not followed. Offer annual training refreshers.
Don't attempt to teach employees to subjectively recognize "business" records.
It is very difficult to create a uniform archive across a company if you are asking employees to individually decide which records are business records and what can be archived. For example, in a company of 1,000 employees, you will have 1,000 different retention policies if you rely on employees to interpret the policy and make archiving decisions. The less complicated the policy, the more uniform the archives will be.
Don't forget the e-mail use policy.
Even when you have a data retention policy, you should still publish an e-mail use policy that informs the employees of their responsibilities, including things they shouldn't do, privacy expectations and consequences for system misuse. There are alot of good archiving products on the market like award winning Barracuda Archiver, Intradyn Orca eMail archiver vs Mimosa Systems. Some of the legacy products are for the most part over priced by today's standards like Symantec Enterprise Vault, CA's Message Manager vs EMC's Legato.
Move e-mail retention from a manual process to an automated process.
Take e-mail archiving out of the hands of employees. Automated e-mail archiving will ensure uniform archiving, increase employee and IT productivity and most importantly, put in place a system that can ensure no message protection if a litigation hold procedure is instituted.
Discourage employees from creating personal archives (PSTs).
Most employees, in companies without e-mail archiving automation, create their own "personal archives" or PSTs for many reasons. They create them for future protection, for reference or re-use. This adversely affects employee productivity. If the company is capturing e-mail traffic, employees won't need to spend time trying to find, access and create archives.
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Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in storage, security and networking solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, EMC, NetApp, Juniper Networks, Hitachi, Symantec, Barracuda Networks, and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Ocala, Palm Coast, Clearwater, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Maitland, Cape Canaveral
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TJX to face security audits for the next 20 years for losing data - March 28, 2008
Tampa Florida -- TJX Cos Inc. will implement tighter security and allow its data to be audited to settle charges that its poor security led to the massive data security breach, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday.
Under a settlement agreement reached with the FTC, the discount retailer agreed to open its records to an audit. Specifically, TJX must obtain audits by independent third-party security professionals every other year for 20 years, the FTC said.
TJX also agreed to establish and maintain a comprehensive security program. The FTC said the program must protect the personal information it collects from or about consumers. The FTC is requiring the retailer to conduct a risk assessment to identify holes that could put consumer data at risk and then design and implement policies and security technologies to mitigate the risks. Had TJX had the right Firewalls from companies like Juniper or Barracuda Networks maybe thing would be a whole lot different.
The agreement also addresses TJX's process of selecting service providers to handle credit card transactions. The company must take steps in selecting a service provider and in handling consumer information it receives from business partnerswhich should of included encryption.
"By now, the message should be clear: companies that collect sensitive consumer information have a responsibility to keep it secure," said FTC Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras. "These cases bring to 20 the number of complaints in which the FTC has charged companies with security deficiencies in protecting sensitive consumer information. Information security is a priority for the FTC, as it should be for every business in America."
Scott Crawford, an analyst with Boulder, Colo.-based Enterprise Management Associates, called the settlement significant for the FTC, which is trying to send the message that it is ensuring enforcement of data security on businesses.
"The impact on individual consumers is what is at stake here and the FTC wants to make sure that TJX is not just paying a penalty but it is required to practice some standard of appropriate security," Crawford said.
The FTC does not have the ability to impose fines, but the agency has reached settlements before. In January, 2006, the FTC reached a settlement with ChoicePoint, which agreed to pay $10 million in civil penalties and $5 million in consumer redress to settle charges that its security and record-handling procedures violated consumers' privacy rights and federal laws.
A full, independent security audit monitored by the FTC would be a costly process, Crawford said. While enterprises won't be able to plug all holes, the FTC is trying to send the signal that organizations should be proactive on security of consumer data.
"The idea that you could hermetically seal an organization from outside threats is unrealistic," he said.
At last year's RSA conference, Majoras said the FTC would be aggressive in taking action against firms that fail to protect consumer data. She said the FTC has taken action against companies for a variety of issues from failing to protect against SQL injection attacks to low-tech attacks such as dumpster diving.
TJX, which operates over 2,500 stores worldwide used legacy Wi-Fi security. A report issued by Canadian privacy officials said the retailer should have moved faster to upgrade its Wi-Fi security from WEP encryption to WPA encryption. Hackers tapped into TJX's servers using the weaker Wi-Fi encryption, pilfering millions of credit and debit cards over an 18-month period by in what experts say was the biggest data breach in history.
Several banking associations reached an agreement with TJX in December, to be reimbursed for the costs associated with canceling and reissuing credit cards.
Since the breach, TJX has been steadily improving its security safeguards. In a prepared statement following the settlement, Daniel J. Forte, president, of the Massachusetts Bankers Association praised TJX for the steps it took to improve security following the breach.
"TJX maybe the first, but they will not be the last". "The message is lock it down or pay the price", states Brian McCarthy CEO and Security Consultant for Sencilo Solutions of Orlando Florida.
"We are pleased to see the steps undertaken by TJX to improve the protection of cardholder data. Those steps have resulted in TJX having recently been certified as fully PCI DSS compliant by an independent PCI-approved assessor," Forte said.
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Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in storage, security and networking solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, EMC, NetApp, Juniper Networks, Hitachi, Symantec, Barracuda Networks, and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale, Tallahassee, Cape Coral, and Pembroke Pines.
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FUJIFILM Launches World's First Datatape Tracker with SC-Integrity's LoJack InTransit(TM) Monitoring Network - March 28, 2008
Orlando Florida (BUSINESS WIRE)--FUJIFILM Recording Media today announced the immediate availability of the Fujifilm Tape Tracker™, a first-of-its-kind wireless tool to help data managers increase security of data by tracking in real-time the location and status of sensitive removable media cartridges while in transit.
Fujifilm is partnering with SC-Integrity (SCI), the world's most comprehensive covert cargo monitoring, recovery and loss prevention service to provide real-time monitoring and notification for the Tape Tracker using the Fujifind™ interactive web application. Based in Bothell, Wash., SCI entered into an agreement in 2006 with the LoJack Corporation to add the power of the LoJack® brand to SCI’s well-known theft prevention, investigation, tracking and recovery solution for the global cargo security market. Fujifind is based on SCI’s powerful LoJack InTransit™ software platform and provides simple management of multiple Tape Trackers.
“The tremendous feedback we received from customers when we introduced this concept last year made clear – there is a significant desire to maintain visibility and control over removable media during shipment from one location to another,” said Daniel Greenberg, New Product Manager, Marketing, Fujifilm Recording Media. “The ability of tape to store large quantities of data in a cost effective, energy efficient, removable format make it a preferred medium to backup and archive critical business data. The Tape Tracker gives power back to the data managers to maintain a chain of custody for these assets as they move between data center backup, vault or disaster recovery destinations.”
This is no doubt a service required with what appears to be daily lost tapes reported in the media, usually starting off with "Iron Mountain again lost a batch of tapes off a truck today".
Unique Product, Established Network
The Fujifilm Tape Tracker (patents pending) is designed within a half-inch tape cartridge format, enabling it to fit snugly and discreetly inside nearly any tape media case. The Fujifind application uses the information, tracking, geo-fencing and notification capability of the LoJack InTransit monitoring solution that currently provide corporations and government the ability to track and monitor high value cargo, audit driver activities, and conduct surveillance operations to ensure that their valuable assets are protected, worldwide.
LoJack InTransit uses the largest Law Enforcement Protocol and Dispatch Network in the cargo security business and the SCI Communications Command Center can dispatch appropriate authorities direct to the data tape location to ensure recovery, facilitate resolutions and prevent future losses.
“Data assets are well-protected in the data center and within a vault or duplicate operations center – but there has been no way to maintain continual chain of custody in real time. Now, with Tape Tracker combined with the LoJack InTransit, there is an effective solution,” said Robert Furtado, CEO, SC-Integrity. “If left unmonitored, back up, disaster recovery and archive data assets can become the Achilles heel to any business or an industry – particularly if the data is sensitive.”
Key features of the Fujifilm Tape Tracker system include:
- Discreet tracking cartridges that resemble other tape media in transit
- Fujifind web application for geo-mapping location with satellite imagery and online mapping created and supported directly by SCI
- Geo fencing capability, perimeter entry/exit notifications, in transit route discrepancy alerts
- Evidentiary reporting for continuous incident resolution and security protocol improvements
- User-defined activity and chain of custody history reports
- 24/7 expert staffed monitoring center, service and support
The Fujifilm Tape Tracker will be available through Fujifilm resellers in the United States at an MSRP of $150 per month.
About FUJIFILM
FUJIFILM Recording Media is the US-based manufacturing, marketing and sales operations of professional broadcast video and data tape recording media for FUJIFILM Corporation. Based on a history of thin-film engineering and magnetic particle science such as Fujifilm NANOCUBIC technology, Fujifilm creates breakthrough products for partners and end users.
Fujifilm is a leader in supplying the IT industry with advanced storage media including LTO Ultrium and enterprise-class data tape featuring the lowest cost per GB for mass storage applications while requiring very low power. Fujifilm provides broadcast and data center customers and industry partners with a wide range of unique data center accessories, value-added services and programs.
About Supply Chain Integrity (SCI)
Based near Seattle, Washington, SCI is committed to providing its community of members with the industry’s most comprehensive covert cargo theft detection, recovery, loss prevention and shared intelligence analysis service. At the core of SCI’s services is the federally-sanctioned Supply Chain Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC), a secure and trusted information-sharing community for members to share incident information and actionable intelligence needed to protect the supply chain infrastructure. SCI services also include LoJack InTransit™, the world’s most comprehensive covert cargo monitoring, recovery and loss prevention service, and SC Investigate™, a powerful investigative sharing and management system with global intelligence-sharing capability.
For more information please call (407) 265-6293 or visit us at: http://www.sencilo.com/products-security.php
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Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in storage, security and networking solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, EMC, NetApp, Juniper Networks, Hitachi, Symantec, Barracuda Networks, and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale, Tallahassee, Cape Coral, and Pembroke Pines.
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Juniper unveils Security Threat Response Manager (STRM) solution - March 27, 2008
Miami Florida - Juniper Networks Inc., a provider of networking solutions, announced Monday the availability of the Juniper Networks Security Threat Response Manager (STRM) solution. The comprehensive STRM solution provides IT administrators with a centralized, scalable and effective way to efficiently and effectively log and manage the evolving threat landscape and adhere to compliance mandates.
With the continuous pressure to increase network visibility, respond to threats and measure effectiveness and security posture in their network, businesses need a cost effective, comprehensive solution to manage the evolving threat landscape and help sustain regulatory compliance. The Juniper Networks STRM solution advances the fundamentals and economics of networking by simplifying security operations, monitoring and securing enterprise networks from external and internal threats.
Juniper offers network infrastructure that creates an environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network, which helps to fuel high-performance businesses vs Cisco MARS.
"In today's market there are too many segmented network and security management products that don't enable businesses to extract all of the value from their current infrastructure," said Andrew Mapp, CTO and noted Security Expert at Sencilo Solutions, a Juniper Networks J-Partner. "Juniper's STRM provides enhanced network security efficiency through the delivery of a single network security management solution that enables customers to maximize the efficiency of their network and better secure their business-critical assets." Look for this product to be part of Gartner's Magic Quadrent in the security space.
"High-performance businesses require an easy-to-deploy and easy-to-manage solution that converges security and network operations to deliver real-time surveillance and detection of today's more complex IT-based threats," said Oliver Tavakoli, vice president of Network Management, Juniper Networks. "Juniper's STRM solution intelligently monitors and secures multi-vendor networks by providing a comprehensive security and compliance "safety net" from external and internal threats."
The Juniper Networks STRM solution offers customers compliance management, log management and threat management to monitor and secure their network. The STRM solution delivers embedded intelligence to detect complex insider abuse and external threats with integrated behavior analysis. With unparalleled real-time surveillance, IT administrators have the advanced visibility to easily and quickly detect existing and emerging threats and pinpoint application policy violations.
The STRM solution helps prevent network and security event overload by collecting, archiving and searching events and logs from networked devices to provide integrated management of network and application flow data. The STRM solution also delivers the accountability, transparency and measurability that are critical to the success of any IT security program tasked with meeting regulatory mandates.
The Juniper Networks STRM500 and the STRM2500 are currently available. The Juniper Networks STRM5000 is scheduled to be available in the second half of this year. The list price for the STRM500 starts at US $15,000 and the list price for the STRM2500 starts at US $37,000.
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Sencilo Solutions is a Florida-based integrator specializing in storage, security and networking solutions. Sencilo delivers a comprehensive portfolio of products from best-of-breed hardware and software from multiple manufacturers including VMware, EMC, NetApp, Juniper Networks, Hitachi, Symantec, Barracuda Networks, and HP. Its technical expertise is known throughout the storage and security industry. Clients include leading corporations, major financial institutions, top universities, government facilities, as well as small to medium size businesses. Sencilo's professional services include consulting, integration, project management, installation, maintenance and knowledge transfer.
Sencilo has offices throughout Florida including: Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale, Tallahassee, Cape Coral, and Pembroke Pines.
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What are Archiving Rules and E-Discovery? - March 23, 2008
Jacksonville Florida - The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) have been in existence since 1938 to govern court procedures for civil suits. Recent revisions to the FRCP have addressed the proliferation of electronic records by adding "e-discovery" rules.
In effect, the rules state that organizations operating in the U.S. must manage and archive all their electronic data so it can be produced in a timely and complete manner. Electronically Stored Information (ESI) plays a high-profile role in the most recent revisions to the FRCP, but agencies are finding there are no hard and fast rules about what ESI should be retained and for how long. Requirements are laid out in the FRCP regarding preservation and production, but guidelines for achieving compliance are vague, which leaves it up to individual agencies and organizations to develop their own e-discovery policies.
Until recently, many government records and documents were kept on paper, created by one agency, and accessed by a limited number of people. Now, the digital world has ushered in a whole new set of issues. Employees can create electronic documents anywhere and anytime, and this has introduced new complexities and a broader definition of "records." A record can include anything ranging from email messages, Instant Messages, documents, and other previously unstructured content -- all of which now must be managed and secured in case of a legal discovery request here in Florida.
Developing an agency-wide approach to understanding and organizing ESI -- sometimes called Electronic Data Information (EDI) -- should be a goal for everyone, but many storage managers don't have the technology in place to manage information such as business and personal emails and attachments. Even if they have the technology in place, however, they often don't know where to start.
Helpful Solutions
New solutions from technology vendors help agencies reduce the time and cost required to locate, retrieve and produce content from anywhere in the IT environment. Here is what agencies should look for in a solution:
Prevent data loss The ease of sharing and distributing information has greatly increased the risk of losing sensitive government data. Because of the pervasiveness of collaboration via messaging systems, IT needs end- to-end protection against the accidental or malicious loss of information. Technology can help mitigate the risks associated with data loss by offering an end-to-end solution which provides message monitoring, filtering and auditing from the gateway to the archive.
Archive and retain documents The pressure on government to manage information more effectively has intensified as the volume of unstructured data generated by email, file server environments, IM platforms and collaboration systems has increased. Intelligent technologies can capture, categorize, index and store data across the agency, making it easy to enforce retention policies and protect assets while reducing storage costs and simplifying management.
Prepare for e-discovery and audits The latest revisions to the FRCP require the retention of email, IM, documents and other files. At the same time, the frequency with which agencies need to respond to legal and regulatory discovery requests are also increasing. That means the need for comprehensive archiving and flexible, efficient discovery has become mission-critical. New products can help facilitate the collection, archiving, preservation and discovery of unstructured content and helps demonstrate compliance with policies, standards and laws.
While the FRCP provides no specific framework, technologies are available that can help ensure that your agency's messaging and collaboration systems are protected against malicious content and data loss -- all while helping to lower the total cost associated with systems management, data retention, electronic discovery and regulatory compliance. Companies like CA Message Manager, Barracuda Email Messager, Symantec Enterprise Vault and Intradyne. Where as companies like Mimosa Nearpoint is failing to deliver product promised over a year ago.
Conclusion
New FRCP rules are forcing agencies to implement solutions that address the unique requirements of protecting and storing digital assets. Now there is an urgent need for businesses and government organizations to make e-discovery and archiving initiatives a top priority.
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Lockdown Networks closes it's doors on NAC market - March 20, 2008
This was a Train wrack waiting to happen security analysts are not surprised by the sudden demise of Lockdown Networks, given the shaky state of the Network Access Control (NAC) market. But questions abound for those who use Lockdown technology in their IT environments. The biggest question is where customers will get support for the products they've installed now that the vendor has imploded.
A Lockdown spokesperson said in an email Thursday that the vendor is contacting customers and partners directly to provide more information. Certain employees have been retained to oversee the shutdown of the company and entertain offers to Lockdown's intellectual property. Having not been listed in the Magic Quadrant like a Junipter Networks.
"The company will try to sell some of its assets (technology), and is fortunate enough to be able to give its employees several weeks of severance and a few months of health benefits to help them find their next job," the spokesperson said. "They are smart, talented people who worked very hard and Lockdown is glad to be able to do that for them. The bottom line is that the NAC market is still developing; Lockdown made a go, and in the end, it wasn't enough."
"I'd be very worried about support for the products," said Andrew Mapp, vice president and service director of security and risk management strategies in Orlando Florida, with Sencilo Solutions. "I have not seen any announcement about who might pick up the technology or who might continue the support but if the company just dies, the products will be in limbo."
This is the latest in a series of events indicating trouble for the NAC market. In January, for example, Vernier Networks quietly re-launched itself under a new name, Autonomic Networks, and approach. The company hasn't revealed many details about its new direction, but has noted that it will move away from its heavy NAC focus.
Analysts have suggested the NAC market grew too crowded and that smaller companies would either follow Vernier's lead or go away because far fewer enterprises are adopting the technology than vendors had initially expected or hoped.
Most enterprises seem to have dismissed NAC as too complicated and expensive for their environment, and as 451 Group Senior Analyst Paul Roberts has noted, IT professionals have found ways to bolster access control using the technology they already have instead of investing in new NAC products. We would suggest to anyone looking at a NAC product to look no further then Juniper Networks.
Roberts said Thursday that Lockdown's demise surprised him since he asked the company point-blank in January if they were looking for additional funding and they said no. The vendor also touted some big enterprise wins at the time, including T-Mobile and Chevron.
"Frankly, something precipitous happened and I'm not sure what," he said in an email exchange. "I'm not sure what their story is on product support, but when this kind of thing happens, obviously, it effects other startups and tends to lend credence to the 'go with a name you can trust' argument that larger vendors make all the time in NAC and other areas as well."
Maiwald believes the whole NAC market category was artificial to begin with. NAC is really a control or set of controls and not really a product or a product category, he said, adding that there are different approaches to controlling who and what comes on to the network.
"I'm not surprised that we are seeing some of the smaller NAC vendors disappearing or trying to reinvent themselves," Maiwald said. "NAC is a control or a system. NAC is not a simple product. A control over who is on your network requires quite a few moving parts and that does not even begin to deal with the relationship of network and security groups within an enterprise." Or see Juniper Network's white paper on NAC - http://www.juniper.net/solutions/literature/white_papers/nac_deployment_opus_one.pdf
Roger Herbst, senior IT technical specialist for the Canton, Ohio-based Timken Company, said his company is not currently doing anything with NAC because it requires significant infrastructure plus lots of care and feeding.
"To some degree, I see NAC as very similar to PKI, and we all know how well those vendors did over the long haul," Herbst said. "How many years was it 'the year of PKI?' You better have a business case in hand when you ask for the funds to implement a NAC solution. Being a security guy, I want NAC to provide me with compliance checking and perhaps some quarantining. That can be done many ways, but most are highly dependent on what plumbing you have in place."
That said, he's not against doing something with NAC in the future. He has looked at some of the vendors and found one of the better products to be what Sygate offered a few years ago before they were acquired by Symantec Corp.
"The combination of their Enforcer inline devices and their SODA for non-managed systems was quite compelling," he said. "I was simply not able to get all of that deployed at the time. If we do move forward with some kind of NAC solution, I will probably start with Symantec (Sygate) unless there is a compelling reason to look elsewhere. I doubt we will be doing anything like the Cisco or Microsoft solution anytime soon."
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Data Backup and Email Archiving feels heat from FRCP rules - March 20, 2008
The scope and focus of legal requests for electronically stored information (ESI) were changed profoundly with the December 2006 revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). IT teams are now under increasing pressure to maintain a data destruction policy that's applied in good faith and regularly, and prior to any request for information. (A data destruction policy applied after an inquiry from corporate counsel looks more than suspicious.)
For example, Rule 26 (Duty to Disclose) addresses pre-trial discovery agreements made by two opposing counsels. Prior to the first court conference, opposing parties must meet to determine the number and type of ESI requests that will be made and met. Mark Foley, an attorney and partner at Foley & Lardner LLP in Florida who specializes in IT litigation, says those agreements and the resulting "litigation holds" have a direct impact on IT teams and their processes. Products from Mimosa, Barracuda, Intradyn, and other in the email archiving space.
"You sue me and ask for a broad list of documents and data,'' explains Foley.
"I object, arguing that certain things you've asked for are either not relevant or that they are too expensive to search.'' Then, he says, it's likely the two parties would agree that a subset of the data would be provided quickly, but a preservation policy will protect a broader range of ESI items that might be requested later.
"Now the person involved with storage needs to know which data must be retained, but not just in the regulatory sense or the generic business sense," says Foley. "We also are promising to protect and preserve certain things in these agreements. And now some poor guy in the IT department has to figure out how to do it."
In these pre-trial meetings, says Foley, he often has conversations that are more technical than legal. "They have to do with things like meta data and tape rotations," he says. In one antitrust case, Foley deposed IT staffers regarding communication and sales data that was almost a decade old and kept on legacy systems no longer in use. The questions for IT departments today, he says, are whether or not they have the necessary tools to capture and preserve the data (and meta data); and whether they have a willing, competent and effective witness who can explain the rationale behind data destruction policies. Often, companies have neither and are less likely to have the latter, says Foley. Including SAN, NAS and DAS Storage and Storage Management.
Brian McCarthy, an E-discovery Expect with Sencilo Solutions of Orlando Florida, a legal discovery consulting firm, says the new regulations can increase the amount of data firms retain, and sometimes they translate to the only standard a firm has for storing and destroying data. "Organizations without external regulatory pressure and structured document-retention programs often find that the interpretations of these discovery agreements become their de facto corporate record-retention requirements," says McCarthy.
Andrew Cohen, VP of compliance solutions and associate general counsel at EMC, says FRCP is forcing many firms to formalize processes around ESI requests. "Organizations with repeat litigation are thinking about how to make the process more efficient, including putting in place 'playbooks' for repeatable ediscovery processes and 'source maps' of where their data is located," he says.
Matt Scherocman, a VP at the the Cincinnati-based PCMS IT Advisor Group, urges his small- to medium-sized business clients to pay attention to the new FRCP rules.
"The IT department today is waiting until legal shows up at their door saying, 'We need that data.' In my opinion, it's a lose-lose strategy," says Scherocman. "At some point, you are going to be sued and they are going to ask you for data. Even a well-founded judge, I think, could say 'If you can't produce it maybe it's because you are hiding it.'"
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Iron Mountain "It Fell Off the Truck, Again". Now What? - March 13, 2008
It was a rocky end to 2007 for data-storage leader Iron Mountain.
The Boston-based company had two high-profile cases of tape loss to close out the year, including one that required GE Money to notify 650,000 potentially exposed customers. Five years after California passed its data breach notification law that became a de facto national standard, the case raises the question: why are banks still trucking around backup tapes, and why is Iron Mountain still losing them?
About 19 percent of banks rely solely on tape for backup storage, says Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Lauren Whitehouse, which conducted a cross-industry study of backup storage practices in January. But many banks are opting to use a combination of tape and disk or electronic storage. In 2004, only one-quarter of banks used a combination strategy; today, more than two-thirds do, Whitehouse says.
Only 13 percent of financial institutions backup solely to disk and less than one percent use only electronic vaulting, according to ESG. Still, IDC predicts that the hosted backup storage market will reach $715 million in 2011, from just $235 million last year.
There are two reasons why tapes remain the industry standard, says Adam Couture, principal research analyst at Gartner: money and bandwidth.
While pricing is complex, it typically costs under a $1 to store one gigabyte of data on tape compared with $4 to $7 per gigabyte for electronic storage. ESG estimates that in a three-year study of total cost of ownership, the tape cost $13.08/GB and disk $12.99. The cost for electronic was three to four times more expensive.
On the bandwidth side, "depending upon the size of your type, it's going to limit how much data you can backup," Couture says. "It's a rule of thumb they top out at a terabyte, terabyte-and-a-half...You can only push so much data through that pipe."
When it comes to disaster recovery, Iron Mountain's America's division President John Connors argues that physical tape storage is still best practice. "The physics of it are that it's still faster to put the tape in a truck, drive it across town and get it over to the system and have it uploaded from there, than [employing] the bandwidth that would allow you to restore that system over the wire," Connors says.
But which poses more of a financial risk, a natural or man-made disaster blocking access to electronic backup files, or a simple lost tape and the millions spent notifying customers and offering identity theft protection services? Couture believes that electronic storage is far safer than its counterpart. "There are a number of risks. The biggest, obviously, is where the tape is lost or stolen," he says. "Iron Mountain, unfortunately, has had more than your fair share of those."
EVault, whose direct customer base is 20 percent banks, is perhaps the top electronic data-storage provider, according to Couture. The company's director of product management, Patrick Dowlaszewicz, says that electronic storage is indeed safer than manual. But there is a better, more secure and less expensive way, say Brian McCarthy, Storage Veteran and CEO of Sencilo Solutions of Jacksonville Florida. "The last thing a customer wants is to have to pull back 100 giga-byte via a T-1, what is most popular is to backup via a disk arrary like a Overland REO, Exagrid or Data Domain device and the replicate it to a second site. The reason for this is two fold, first what Iron Mountain has failed to mention is under the Patriot Act the Feds can walk into a IM site with a warrant and walk off with the clients data and IM is not permitted to disclose this under court orders, that is not the case if you housed your own data. Second reason is cost IM makes great margins on not having to have trucks or personnel picking up tapes.
"If you look at the entire spectrum of security, the more touch points you have in the handling of the data, the more risk you have in terms of things happening outside of what you expected," Dowlaszewicz says. "Essentially, it is not just a matter of fact that those [cases of data loss] will happen. We will prevent those things from happening...by removing the human intervention where possible."
Which brings the issue back around to Iron Mountain. The company is the largest data-protection business in the world and manages about 50 million tapes for about 40 million customers including about 80 percent of the Fortune 500, Connors says. This includes more than five million tape deliveries per year, and a nearly flawless reliability rate, Connors says.
The devil is in the .001 percent, perhaps. News stories over the past couple of years indicate that Iron Mountain has been involved in at least four major cases of data loss; the company wouldn't release an exact number (Iron Mountain encourages customers to encrypt data, but does not mandate it.
But Connors' stance is that, by-and-large, big news stories about lost backup tapes are a case of much ado about nothing. While not entirely trivializing these cases of data loss, he says there are not believed to be any cases of identity theft from the breaches.
The problem is that data breach laws don't distinguish between a hack and a lost tape. "There has been a little bit of hysteria around this because companies are trying to meet the letter of the law," he says.
Meet the letter of the law, yes, and then pay for incident response. Research by the Ponemon Institute found that institutions spend an average of $239 per record in the wake of data losses. If the Iron Mountain/GE Money tape loss followed the average it would mean spending $155 million to handle the incident. GE Money spokesperson Richard Jones says that the company still uses Iron Mountain which has "taken steps to improve our physical and technical controls."
But not all Iron Mountain's customers are willing to share the blame or shoulder the costs. After Iron Mountain lost tapes containing a decade's worth of Louisiana students' financial aid applications this fall, the State Office of Student Financial Assistance fired the company in favor an electronic vaulting system that costs about 18 times more than the $5k Iron Mountain charged. Reports indicate the state is also trying to recoup some of its incident response costs.
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