IT continuity newsletter
December 2005

This newsletter provides a roundup of the IT continuity news and information posted on Continuity Central during the past few weeks. You are receiving it because you have subscribed.

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Tribal thinking in today’s IT environments
Tribal thinking is human nature at its most basic - and may explain one of the more puzzling aspects of IT security. By David M Lynch.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0279.htm
• Region: World

Using air sampling smoke detection to protect mission critical facilities from fire
The biggest risk to continuous operation within a computer room after a fire is the smoke damage to electrical equipment, not the flames.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0274.htm
•Region: World

Leveraging virtual machines for business continuity
Jason Buffington, CBCP and Microsoft MVP, provides an overview of virtualization and its business continuity uses.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0272.htm
•Region: US/World

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The always-on network: strategies for achieving high availability of IT systems
Randy MacCleary details the four elements of a high availability physical support plan - power, heat removal, monitoring and service management.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0270.htm
•Region: US/World

Competing in the age of the continuous enterprise…
Large financial institutions are well aware of the cost of downtime – but it’s time other sectors took the issue more seriously…
http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0271.htm
•Region: UK/World

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Business Continuity Index survey
Continuity Central is cooperating with SteelEye Technology to help promote a detailed IT continuity survey.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news02234.htm
• Region: World

Recent natural disasters have resulted in more North American companies replicating or backing up their data: Gartner
In a survey of North American IT managers, 45 percent of those surveyed reported backing up or replicating data to another disk, up dramatically from just 6 percent in 2004.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news02236.htm
• Region: US

New software enables faster large-scale data migration over IP networks
HyperIP DMO addresses the requirements of organisations that need to move large amounts of mission critical data between locations.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news02232.htm
• Region: US/World

Companies flirting with brand disaster…
Avoidable records management failures are impacting company reputations, according to new research by AXS-One.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news02233.htm
• Region: UK

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European project takes new approach to information security
Virtual security framework is independent of both devices and networks.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news02227.htm
• Region: W.Europe

Research shows ISM progress but reveals two out of three systems still vulnerable
Annual study identifies new trends in vulnerabilities.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news02229.htm
• Region: World

Canadian companies’ attitudes to data risk explored
While 98 percent of Canadian business leaders and decision makers believe it is important for a company to ensure that any sensitive data is protected against improper activity, the facts tell a different story…
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news02221.htm
• Region: N.America

Central London data centres - too many eggs in one basket?
The high concentration of data centres within the M25 is itself a serious threat to the integrity of a business’s data security strategy, says Kelly Smith…
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news02223.htm
• Region: UK

‘Disaster ready’ hard drive launched
US-based ioSafe has launched a new ‘Disaster Ready Drive’ - an external hard drive packaged in a fire, flood and theft resistant outer housing.
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• Region: US

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BakBone announces availability of heterogeneous data replication product suite
BakBone has unveiled new data protection capabilities, including NetVault: Replicator, NetVault: Replicator Plugin Modules for Exchange, SQL, Oracle and MySQL, NetVault: Replicator Cluster Support Plugin and NetVault: Replicator On-Demand. These heterogeneous product offerings provide customers with real-time and scheduled replication functionality that can be easily integrated with existing BakBone backup, recovery and reporting solutions. Read press release
•Region: World

New disaster recovery product for MS SQL Server
Data-Rite Systems, Inc., has announced the introduction of DR-Synch SQL server log shipping software. DR-Synch is a disaster recovery application that automates the backup of database and transaction log files on a production SQL server, then ships and restores them every 20 minutes onto a standby server. Should the production server fail, users can begin the failover process immediately by pointing to the standby server. Read press release (PDF)
•Region: US/World

Sensitive corporate data being stolen via digital cameras
According to IT Observer, businesses are being urged to be vigilant against insider hackers using digital cameras to sidestep security measures. Termed, ‘Camsnuffling’, this straight-forward method involves using the digital camera as a data storage device. The camera is simply plugging into a computer’s USB before copying corporate data on to it.
• Region: World

Botnets as a vehicle for Online Crime
Nicholas Ianelli and Aaron Hackworth of the CERT Coordination Center have written a paper which offers an analysis of real-world botnets . The paper indicates the increasing sophistication of bot malware and its thoughtful engineering as an effective tool for profit-motivated online crime. It explains: how botnets are built ; what capabilities botnets possess ; how botnets are operated ; and how botnets are maintained and defended . Read the paper
• Region: US

New information security risk software tool launched
A new CD-ROM is now available from BSI Business Information to help organisations protect their business critical information. Developed by ÆXIS Security Consultants and XiSEC Consultants Ltd, RA2 Art of Risk is more than just a risk assessment tool as it is designed to help businesses to develop an ISMS in compliance with the ISMS specification ISO/IEC 27001:2005, and the code of practice for information security management ISO/IEC 17799:2005. For more information, please visit www.bsi-global.com/RA2
• Region: UK

SANRAD unveils industry’s first open iSCSI SAN
SANRAD has launched its new Total iSCSI SAN–V-Switch. By leveraging the powerful storage virtualization and intelligent storage management capabilities built into the Total iSCSI SAN-V-Switch, end users can easily add their iSCSI storage arrays to a pool of SAN storage and then manage that global storage pool with a full spectrum of intelligent storage services, including virtualization, remote replication, data mirroring and snapshots. www.sanrad.com
• Region: US/World

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