Content security becoming an integrated aspect of continuity solutions

CYA Technologies, Inc., a provider of business continuity and secure collaboration software that secures and protects mission critical information across the enterprise, is claiming that the inclusion of content security and collaboration into business continuity strategies is a major initiative among many of its clients, which include some of the world's largest enterprises.

Nearly all Fortune 2000 companies store mission critical information and applications within a content management repository. These repositories are often the first to be protected with business continuity solutions. Many enterprises have avoided storing highly sensitive documents and content within content management systems because of their flexible user access. Instead enterprises have opted to store highly sensitive information in hardcopy format in secure locations. CYA believes that this practice undermines the value of an organisation's business continuity solution.

"We are seeing a change in the market. Enterprises are beginning to understand the importance of marrying content security, collaboration and business continuity," said Price. "After September 11th, companies were implementing robust business continuity technologies to protect critical information and applications, but their most important documents were on paper in storage facilities instead of in a corporate repository. Today, companies are leveraging existing content management systems and augmenting them with robust secure collaboration technology to protect and store highly sensitive content."

Price says that by wrapping security and collaboration under the umbrella of business continuity, organisations can store more information within their content management repositories. This practice leverages their investment in content management and business continuity technology. It also provides a cost-effective method to protect critical information and applications at each point of the information lifecycle. From creation, collaboration, dissemination, to archival, critical information is protected from disaster as well as from malicious or accidental dissemination and use.

There are several factors that CYA Technologies' recommends their clients consider when determining how to incorporate security and collaboration into their business continuity solution. These include:

* How to minimise the risks involved in collaboration;
* How to assess the value of critical information;
* The importance of audit trails to monitor user interaction with information;
* The importance of roles in a secure collaboration solution.

"Regulatory pressures and a growing awareness that IP Asset management is paramount to business competitiveness are positioning business continuity and digital rights management (DRM) into the forefront of business strategy. Executives realise that protecting information from corruption, ensuring maximum uptime, facilitating fast information restoration and protecting sensitive, confidential information electronically is quickly becoming a matter of doing business in the digital age. But, forward thinking executives realise that investments in business continuity and DRM are not just about protection and security. It creates a foundation to new opportunities and business models, allowing for unprecedented levels of secure sharing, leading to greater leverage and payback from IP," said Carl Frappaolo, Delphi Group.

www.cya.com

•Date: 25th February 2004 •Region: N.America/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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