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What Should Be Secured?

I recently attended an IT security conference in Chicago and the keynote speaker's address reminded me that IT people and business owners often have different views on what are your company's assets and what constitutes adequate security. Dave Stelzl, author of The House & the Cloud, simplified the security model for business by comparing a business's security to a home. We “Protect” our home with doors, windows, locks, and fences. However, we all know that these security measures do little to stop a determined or skilled burglar. The next ingredient is the ability to “Detect” a security breach. In a home we put in alarm systems, motion detectors, subscribe to monitoring services and support neighborhood crime watch groups. Finally, the most important provision of the security model is the “Response.” We have a dog that will bite the thief, some people will have a gun ready for intruders, others rely on the police to respond and others purchase insurance to replace lost items and repair any damage.

Using the house as your business scenario you must ask three questions.

1. What are you trying to protect?
2. What are the relevant threats you face?
3. How comfortable are you with your organizations ability to detect and to respond to a security situation?

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Are you prepared in the event of a disaster or even just an unplanned disruption to your businesses network infrastructure? Most businesses do not have a disaster recovery plan in place, but the reality is a disaster could be as simple as losing an important file and not having a current backup to recover it from. Planning for any type of disaster makes good business sense.

Panurgy has combined real-time data backup with a server ready recovery solution to offer a complete disaster solution, at a price that makes it a no-brainer for any size business.

Real-Time Backup
Imagine not relying on antiquated tape systems, or being subject to human error when it comes to guaranteeing a successful daily backup. Would it not be ideal to have your data backed up, as it was being created? Our Total Data Protection service provides 24 X 7 real-time, hassle-free, local backup, as well as hands-free offsite protection for servers, laptops and PCs. Data can now be recovered from any point in time—from minutes ago, hours ago, days ago or more. Even deleted files can be recovered.

Off-site Archiving
No more tapes to switch or store. With our Off-site Archiving service, backups and critical data are protected offsite. Data is transmitted securely and stored encrypted at a secure data center.

Server Ready Recovery
In the event of a disaster, you need not only your data to be restored but a server(s) to restore it too! Panurgy’s Server Ready Recovery Solution provides dedicated standby back-office server infrastructure, at-the-ready to be brought online within hours of an emergency. The clients replicated server infrastructure is located at our Hardened Data Center, pre-configured to the clients requirements.

Combine Server Ready Recovery, Total Data Protection, Off-site Archiving and your business will have the ultimate business continuity protection solution. Giving you total peace-of-mind, in the event of a disaster – no matter how you define a disaster!

Businesses can finally afford to protect their data and ensure business continuity. Contact a Panurgy representative to protect your business today!

Seeing Double - Practical Productivity
By Jane Cage, HTS COO

Do you have the luxury of doing only one task at a time? If you’re like me, I would guess the answer is probably “No”. I find myself answering email, working on a spreadsheet, looking at an accounting issue and searching for info on the internet all at the same time. It’s just become part of the way that we all work. Most computer users, however, are forced into single-tasking because of the way they see their work – on a single monitor. Windows XP and VISTA provide desktop users with the ability to “spread” their desktop across multiple monitors. Having two monitors has changed and improved the way I work.

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