Five Application Recovery Challenges and How to Address Them
In response to such trends as rampant growth of mission-critical data, the proliferation of virtualization and cloud within the data center, and the erosion of organizational tolerance for downtime, businesses large and small are reprioritizing their data protection objectives.
A recent Quest Software survey indicates that nearly three-quarters of organizations now rank restoring critical applications alongside recovering lost data as their top data protection concern.
The shift in focus from recovering lost data to restoring critical applications, however, presents a whole new set of backup and recovery challenges.
Quest Software has identified five common application recovery challenges, along with best practices for ensuring the rapid recoverability of these critical assets.
Five Challenges of Modern Application Recovery and How to Alleviate Them
- Not all applications are the same – Applications have varying degrees of value to the business, and must be protected accordingly. For example, the application powering the finance department’s transactional database needs to be held to a stricter SLA than an application less critical to business operations. This means organizations need to be strategic about setting application recovery objectives. One-size-fits-all recovery will not suffice. Read more
Trend Micro Tackles Data Protection and Consumerization Needs with Integrated OfficeScan Release
Trend Micro announced enhancements to its OfficeScan, Mobile Security and Data Protection solutions, which includes the ability to integrate management of security, data protection, and mobile management.
This allows IT organizations to reduce the costs and complexity required to protect their users, data and computing assets.
While businesses have worked diligently to reduce incoming IT threats in recent years, they have struggled to keep up with emerging ‘multi-faceted’ security concerns related to data loss, virtualization, cloud migration, mobile device management and consumerization. A recent Trend Micro study shows that IT departments serving more than 200 users have added security point solutions at an alarming rate – in some cases they have a dozen types of software, each with a different directory, administration console and server.
“We have quickly found ourselves in a situation where IT organizations must consolidate their security solutions, or risk errors and solution gaps due to this added complexity,” said Ron Clarkson, Trend Micro’s senior director, endpoint business. “The good news is, Trend Micro has anticipated this situation and provides a reliable way out of it.” Read more
National Cyber Security Alliance to Coordinate Data Privacy Day
The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), a non-profit public-private partnership focused on cybersecurity awareness and education for all digital citizens, announced that it will organize and lead efforts for Data Privacy Day on January 28, 2012.
This annual international awareness initiative promotes data privacy and protection across the United States, Canada, and a host of other countries across the globe.
Data Privacy Day is an international celebration that focuses on educating people about the importance of protecting the privacy of personal information and that promotes individual control over private data. With the explosion of digital communications, people depend increasingly on mobile devices, instant access to information, and intelligent services. As they benefit from using these technologies, consumers and citizens must be vigilant about protecting their personal information. Data Privacy Day generates dialogue among all digital community stakeholders, including businesses, government officials and agencies, educators, nonprofits, academics and individuals to examine how advanced technologies can positively affect daily lives without putting user information and personal data at risk. Read more
Security Standoff in the Cloud?
CA Technologies and the Ponemon Institute, an independent research firm specializing in privacy, data protection and information security policy, released a study that shows cloud providers and cloud consumers are not aligned on cloud security. Their conflicting views on focus, priority and responsibility suggest a pending security standoff between cloud providers and cloud users.
The study, “Security of Cloud Computing Providers,” indicates that cloud providers are more focused on delivering the benefits of cost and speed of deployment, the top two reasons cited for migrating to cloud computing. The majority of cloud providers (79 percent) allocate just 10 percent or less of IT resources to security or control-related activities. This result is consistent with the finding that less than half of the respondents agree or strongly agree that security is a priority.
“The focus on reduced cost and faster deployment may be sufficient for cloud providers now, but as organizations reach the point where increasingly sensitive data and applications are all that remains to migrate to the cloud, they will quickly reach an impasse,” said Mike Denning, general manager, Security, CA Technologies. “If the risk of breach outweighs potential cost savings and agility, we may reach a point of ‘cloud stall’—where cloud adoption slows or stops—until organizations believe cloud security is as good as or better than enterprise security.”
Additional key findings include: Read more
Trend Micro Expands Data Protection Portfolio to Secure Data From Endpoints to the Cloud
New Data Protection products and services enable customers to benefit from comprehensive, cost-effective and easy-to-use set of DLP, encryption, and device control solutions
With the release of several new products and services, Trend Micro is furthering its leadership and commitment in data privacy and security by expanding its Data Protection portfolio to help small, medium and large organizations protect business information against damage, loss, and unauthorized access. Trend Micro’s goal is to keep data safe, wherever it resides, from endpoint to cloud, from intentional or unintentional harm, and to enable this protection cost-effectively and with lower complexity.
Data Protection is a growing concern for businesses. State and national governments are enacting more stringent data privacy regulations and such regulations are driving the need to protect sensitive information and protect privacy. The increased frequency and cost of data breaches are also accelerating the adoption of Data Protection solutions as organizations strive to mitigate risks and protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. Many businesses struggle with the complexity, cost and manageability of data protection solutions. Trend Micro understands these challenges and has developed easier data protection solutions to address and solve these problems.
“Data protection is paramount in any organization’s security strategy. The new products and services provide our customers with proven solutions to encrypt, control, and protect confidential data – endpoint to cloud,” said Steve Quane, chief product officer, Trend Micro. “These solutions further our vision of protecting digital information wherever it resides, with less cost and complexity.” Read more
