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FBI urges greater co-operation from US tech firms
News It is possible for electronic intrusions to damage infrastructure and threaten physical danger, but taking control of those systems from the outside requires specialised knowledge and the intruder often must overcome noncomputerised fail-safe...
[September 6, 2002, 9:48]
Addressing the Top Data Protection Challenges in Mixed Physical and Virtual Server Environments: Symantec Backup and Recovery Solutions for Physical and Virtual Servers
White Papers Read this ESG paper to see how Symantec is responding to mixed environment data protection requirements with enhanced solutions for system and data protection, including recent updates to Backup Exec and Backup Exec System Recovery that provide...
[June 4, 2009, 15:13]
Facilities Considerations for the Cisco Data Center Network Architecture
White Papers The Cisco Data Center Network Architecture - a comprehensive, adaptive network architecture designed by Cisco Systems for agile IT support of business needs - critically depends upon underlying physical facilities to provide the power, cooling...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Facility Considerations for the Data Center
White Papers The Cisco Enterprise Data Center Architecture - a comprehensive, adaptive network architecture designed by Cisco Systems for agile Information Technology (IT) support of business needs - critically depends upon underlying physical facilities to...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
VMware SRM and EMC Replication for Disaster Recovery
White Papers Disasters happen, and disaster recovery for Wintel environments is particularly challenging because of the physical connections between applications, operating systems, and underlying platforms. The attendee of this webcast will find out how the...
[April 25, 2009, 1:23]
HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring Integration White Paper
White Papers This localized availability allows protection against individual failures at multiple levels, including the SQL Server instance, individual hardware components, the physical server, or the infrastructure which is relied upon to maintain client...
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
Backup and Recover Your Microsoft Hyper-V Environment in Seconds
White Papers The attendee will learn the value and cost benefits of Hyper-V virtualization and how to efficiently implement a comprehensive data protection strategy that easily scales across the virtual and physical environment.
[July 4, 2009, 1:20]
Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Overview
White Papers In return, CDP can provide enterprise IT organizations with seamless, near-instantaneous recoveries from logical & physical data corruption events stemming from many sources, including operator errors.
[May 26, 2007, 1:00]
US government unveils cybersecurity plan
News The "National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace" uses the definition of "critical infrastructure" contained in the USA Patriot Act, which describes these as "systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the...
[September 20, 2002, 7:40]
The future of Radio Frequency Identification
News Besides increasing the accuracy and flexibility of operation, the integration of physical assets to the IT infrastructure can provide a real-time view of demand, enabling a true "sense and respond" enterprise.
[August 18, 2003, 14:55]
Trend Micro to protect cloud servers
News Deep Security can be used in conjunction with Trend Micro's ServerProtect and Core Protection for Virtual Machines, the company's anti-malware products designed respectively for physical servers and VMware virtual servers.
[October 27, 2009, 7:06]
US govt to get early warning of Net attacks
News The TTIC, a mammoth data-collection project intended to fuse information collected domestically by police and internationally by spy agencies, has a broad mandate but has focused on physical threats to national security.
[August 1, 2003, 10:40]
Hacktivists threaten World Bank meeting
News The US government's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) said on Monday that those planning physical disruption might also use computer attacks to "enhance the effects of the physical attack or to complicate the response by emergency...
[September 24, 2002, 12:13]
Tips for managing IT facilities
News Some may also mention smoke detection, uninterruptible power supplies, and controlled physical access. Most data centres have acceptable methods of controlling physical access into their machine rooms, but not always for vaults or rooms that store...
[June 6, 2005, 17:35]
European software patents inch closer
News Some factions had sought to clearly limit what kinds of software-related inventions could be patented; Cult, for example, proposed an amendment to the proposal stating that "data processing is not a field of technology", removing it from...
[June 18, 2003, 14:04]
Hackers split over vigilante strikes
News Infrastructure owners and operators should be at a heightened state of alert and should implement appropriate security measures--both physical and cyber," the NIPC said. The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) issued an advisory...
[September 17, 2001, 9:32]
US government wants firms' security secrets
News The proposal sweeps broadly, covering any data submitted to the government about any real or possible attack on "critical infrastructure or protected systems by physical or computer-based attack" or any programming errors, glitches or bugs that...
[April 17, 2003, 7:58]
NISCC wins gong for its fight against cybercrime
News NISCC was established in 1999 to work on the physical protection of assets in the UK. The National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) got a pat on the back today. However, the main bulk of its work resides in mitigating risk in...
[October 8, 2004, 14:10]
Fujitsu's IaaS keeps data in the UK
News The question of where data in the cloud resides on physical machines is a potential problem for companies due to the Data Protection Act of 1998. That law says personal data should not be transferred outside the European Economic Area unless the...
[July 28, 2009, 16:42]
The pros and cons of high-availability systems
News A loss of the physical site could result in the destruction of the backup systems as well as the production systems. HA systems allow organisations to fail over much faster than remote failover, and they offer a greater level of protection for...
[June 17, 2005, 12:50]
