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10 Things IT Should Be Doing (but isn't) by Varonis
for maximizing unstructured data protection are:

  • Data Entitlement (ACL) Reviews
  • Revocations of Unused and Unwarranted Permissions
  • Removal of Global Group ACLs like "Everyone"
  • Deletion or Archiving of Stale or Unused Data
  • Deletion of Unused User Accounts
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Preventing Data Loss: 10 Key Imperatives by Varonis
describes the Varonis approach to data protection, it centers on the notion of data governance -- a comprehensive means to see, control and audit all aspects of unstructured data access. With 80 - 90% of data being stored on file servers, and the accessibility to...
Managing Unstructured Data: 10 Key Requirements by Varonis
the right enterprise-wide data protection solution for your specific business. Learn more about these ten imperatives to know when evaluating a vendor offering. Research has shown that more than 80% of all business information comes from, "unstructured...
Get the Varonis View. Sign-up for the 30-Day Free Trial by Varonis
so you can visualize the entire data access control environment and adaptively determine proper authorization. Discover the many benefits Varonis View has to offer. Sign up for the Varonis View free 30 day trial so you can visualize the entire data...
A Layered Security Strategy for Preventing Data Leakage, Theft and Insider Abuse by Tizor
the challenges of securing data across three key layers of the IT infrastructure-the perimeter, the endpoint and the data center (core data servers). This white paper outlines the challenges of securing data across three key layers of the IT...
The ROI of Data Loss Prevention (DLP) by Websense, Inc.
One data leak can result in continuous cost. Fortunately, the threat of a leak is significantly mitigated through a data loss prevention (DLP) solution, which can provide a clear return on investment (ROI) and a manageable total...
New Technologies for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity by F5 Networks
that can lead to a loss of data, a data protection plan is serious business. Read this white paper for information on such a plan. Enterprise data protection has grown up. With the frequent threat of virus attacks, hackers, and the uncontrollable forces that can...
Data Protection Scenarios and Solutions by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
This paper will review some of the data protection solutions and discuss the role each plays in formulating a complete IT data protection strategy. There are many different solutions that must be employed today to provide proper data protection for business data...
Optim Data Growth Solution for Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise by IBM
IBM's Optim™Data Growth Solution for Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise provides proven archiving capabilities. Now you can align continuous control of your PeopleSoft data with business objectives to optimize performance...
Optim Data Growth Solution for Oracle E-Business Suite by IBM
control of your E-Business Suite data with business objectives. Optim's proven archiving capabilities enable you to set desired service levels for each category of E-Business Suite data - for example, current data, reporting data and historical data. You...
Disk-based Data Protection Options: The Changing Data Protection Landscape by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
the benefits of all new disk-based data protection options to allow you to select the best technology for each of the data types to be protected in your environment. Over the past 40 years of computing, the standard way of protecting primary disk storage data was to...
NetBackup 6.5: Enabling Next-Generation Disk-Based Data Protection by Symantec Corporation
solution, provides disk-based data protection for remote office and enterprise datacenter environments. Influenced by factors such as disaster recovery, regulatory compliance, legal pressures, and IT risk management, many IT organizations need to enhance...
Protecting Stored Data Part II by SearchDisasterRecovery.com
provides the latest information on data protection technologies and provides best practices for applying appropriate protection services to data assets. The best metric for measuring business resiliency is "time to data" -- the amount of time required to restore...
Protecting Stored Data Part I by SearchDisasterRecovery.com
provides the latest information on data protection technologies and provides best practices for applying appropriate protection services to data assets. The best metric for measuring business resiliency is "time to data" -- the amount of time required to restore...
Best Practices for Successfully Deploying and Managing Data Encryption on Laptops by Fiberlink Communications
Data encryption is the best available technology to prevent the loss of confidential data when laptops and mobile devices are lost or stolen. Data encryption has become a "must-have" technology for businesses,...
Syncsort Backup Express Advanced Protection Manager by Syncsort
Organization's need effective data protection solutions in order to meet today's business demands. Read this white paper to learn about an integrated suite of advanced D2D data protection solutions that ensure business continuity in all environ... Today's...
Near-Instant Oracle Cloning with Syncsort AdvancedClient Technologies by Syncsort
44; ERP venture, technology audit or similar project?

Are you often required to create a full physical clone of an Oracle database, completely independent of the production data? If so, you have probably been plagued by a number of troublesome...
Backup = Archive: Can You Tell the Difference? by CommVault Systems, Inc.
for archiving information across data management sources. Think you know the difference? If we are to keep long term data management costs down while facilitating ease of data management, recovery, accessibility and data flexibility, then a...
Converging System and Data Protection in Windows Environments by Symantec Corporation
are the gold standard in Windows data protection and complete system recovery. By working together, they help keep your business up, running, and growing-no matter what happens...
More than Just Backup by Storage Magazine
new requirements for corporate data protection. Data protection is changing rapidly: Point,in,time recoveries, faster legal discovery response times and near real,time disaster recoveries are becoming new requirements for corporate data protection. To address...
Ensuring PCI DSS Compliance in Virtual and Physical Environments by Tripwire, Inc.
of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) have been reluctant to deploy virtual servers because they are unsure how this technology will affect their compliance initiatives.

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Essential Questions for Evaluating ESM Solutions by eIQnetworks
best solution for your SOC, NOC and Audit teams. With it, comprehensive security and compliance management will be achievable through end-to-end data collection and correlation, rapid attack mitigation, fast root cause analysis, robust...
Beyond Virtual Tape Libraries: End-to-End Data Protection with Syncsort Disk-to-Disk Solutions by Syncsort
VTL data storage has been a popular data protection solution in recent years, the VTL solution may be incomplete for long-term needs. Read this white paper to learn why D2D backup solutions are the ideal data protection technologies for y... Today, IT network...
Implementing Highly Available Data Protection with Veritas NetBackup by Symantec Corporation
paper looks at the components of a data protection system based on NetBackup and outlines a number of different configurations and solutions aimed at both reducing the risk of failure within a particular site and recovering from the loss of the site. The data...
Securing Data in Motion-Part Two by Symantec Corporation and Iron Mountain Digital and Websense and Lumension Security and Utimaco Safeware
In part two of this data protection video series Pete Lindstrom, Senior Analyst for Burton Group discusses the steps to take in order to ensure your data is properly secured. Data protection has and always will be a top concern for organizations in...
Advanced Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning Techniques and Technologies: Module 2 Data Protection by SearchStorage.com
provides the latest information on data protection technologies and provides best practices for applying appropriate protection services to data assets. The best metric for measuring business resiliency is "time to data" - the amount of time required to...
Cool Vendors in Data Protection by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
that details five disk-based data protection solutions from emerging data protection vendors. This research details five disk-based data protection solutions from emerging data protection vendors. IT directors and storage administrators responsible...
Achieving Network Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Compliance with Netcordia's NetMRI by Netcordia
This paper describes the ways that Netcordia's NetMRI can help you quickly achieve and maintain PCI DSS compliance across your network. The greatest challenge to PCI DSS compliance resides in monitoring and managing all its specific network requirements, which encompass security firewalls, access and change controls, system...
Recovery Manager for SharePoint by Quest Software
Manager) • Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 • IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases (TSM) Retrieve Data Anytime – And Restore Anywhere Recovery Manager for SharePoint is an enterprise recovery solution that provides emergency access to all...
Best Practices for User Management on the System i by Safestone
decide how much access users need to data, making it seem that user management is merely an administration function within the organization. Companies have invested a great deal of effort in securing the System i perimeter from external attack, but the...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
recovering files that they're not authorized to access.

Integrate snapshots into the broader data protection scheme

Evaluate the importance of your snapshots and determine the level of data protection that is appropriate for your snapshot data. RAID 5 or even RAID 6 protection is usually adequate in the snapshot storage system itself, while some organizations take it... More...

How to implement disk-to-disk backups
as backup targets. Storage space is finite, which can limit the allowable retention period for data. Data reduction technologies like data deduplication and delta differencing can dramatically extend the effective storage capacity. Also, indexing and search are can be valuable when rapid file organization and location are needed. Below are a series of best... More...
How to improve tape backup performance and reliability

Use data backup tools to locate bottlenecks

Experts point to a growing number of backup and data protection management tools that can analyze backup traffic and highlight potential problem areas. For example, you might identify tape as your data bottleneck and spend significant capital dollars for upgrades and other changes -- only to discover that the problem was... More...

FAQ's
Tape Encryption FAQ
continuity and disaster recovery planning services, and corporate data protection. How can you protect your tapes once they leave your hands? Pierre Dorion, Data Center Practice Director with Long View Systems Inc., answers today's most common tape encryption questions. His answers are also available as an MP3... More...
When does data deduplication using backup software on the host make sense?
to consider. If you're bandwidth constrained and are trying to back up data and you have large amounts of data coming over the network, then using data deduplication at the host makes a lot of sense. That can dramatically free up the amount of bandwidth that you have.

It is important that the host can sustain... More...

What is the difference between server-free and LAN-free backup?
is simply connecting the server that needs to be backed up to a SAN, so the data is transferred over Fibre Channel to a tape drive, VTL or disk.

In server-free backup, the data does not flow through the server being backed up. The server being backed up is still involved, because it has to do things like quiesce the... More...