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21 Apr 2011
Amazon’s cloud outage – does it change your perception of the cloud?
Everyone (okay, many; especially the vendor marketing types) keeps swearing by the "cloud"...and then Amazon's EC2 goes down today. How does that affect how you view the cloud?I've been a skeptic and I'm still a skeptic...beware the cloud bandwagon....
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07 Mar 2011
Disaster recovery & security plus e-discovery & records management
Here are some recent articles I wrote for TechTarget's SearchDisasterRecovery.com and SearchCompliance.com on the relationships between DR planning and information security as well as records management and the dreaded e-discovery process. Serving as an expert witness on various information security cases, I can assure you that you'll want to be prepared for both - especially the latter:Disaster recovery security: The importance of addressing data security issues in DR plansLeaning on ...
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05 Apr 2010
Pros and cons of disk imaging
Disk imaging is one of those awesome technologies that so many businesses can benefit from yet so few people (at least from what I see) are using it. Here's a new piece I wrote for SearchDataBackup.com where I talk about the pros and cons of disk imaging and how you can benefit from it:Using disk imaging software in data backup and recovery...
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09 Nov 2009
Have you thought about business continuity metrics?
Either way, here's a good set of business continuity metrics worth checking out. Something that's sorely missing from many plans...that is, where plans even exist....
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29 Oct 2009
Disaster recovery is dead?? Not hardly!
In this recent SearchCIO.com bit, the executive director of the Disaster Recovery Institute International says that disaster recovery is dead. He goes on to say that "disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity have become synonymous" and (here's the kicker) "We don't do recovery anymore, because what everybody wants is continuous operations...We have auto failover now. We have redundancy in data. We do have more continuity. And that is because recovery ...
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27 Jul 2009
Good business impact analysis template
Happy Monday! I just came across this sample business impact analysis template you can use to fine-tuning your DR plan. You do have a DR plan, right?...
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01 Oct 2008
Cool site for tracking impending disasters
During Hurricane Ike I came across a really neat site for tracking storms in the tropics and onto our soil here in the U.S. It's called Stormpulse. It has an awesome interface and lots of good information to help you plan and execute emergency procedures if your organization is going to be affected. Certainly a worthy tool in any DR/BC toolbox....
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02 Sep 2008
My security content from this week
Here's a piece I wrote for SearchDataBackup.com (a new TechTarget site I'm now writing for):Change management and disaster recovery...as well my thoughts on the latest and greatest version of BackTrack (a tool you've gotta get familiar with):Free security testing toolkit review: BackTrack 3As always, be sure to check out www.principlelogic.com/resources.html for all of my information security articles, podcast interviews, webcasts, and screencasts....
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18 Mar 2008
Ever wonder how real-time imaging software works?
I use Acronis TrueImage Echo for my backups. It's a really handy way of performing live backups and I hear from a lot of folks how they love it. If you've ever wondered how the software is actually able to make backups of the live Windows system without having to reboot into a DOS-like interface, here's how it's done. This is from Acronis support engineer Michael Lee - re-printed with ...
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His final report was very thorough and included security recommendations for our network environment. The executive leadership was so impressed with Kevin’s security expertise, they have extended their agreement to continue to perform periodic testing. We highly recommend Kevin Beaver and Principle Logic as a resource for network security testing.”
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Kevin has written/co-written 12 books on information security including one of the best-sellers of all time:
