Data Protection 360 
by Dan Blacharski
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It's time to give your data the protection it deserves. This blog explores the challenges that organizations face in distributed, multi-platform environments, and provides insight into how to safe guard data through backup, business continuity and disaster recovery. Daily posts about industry news, and trends also provided.
Compliance, backup, and recovery
Compliance with the ever-increasing array of legislative mandates presents a burden to management and IT staff alike. If you’re in financial services, you are bound by Gramm-Leach-Bliley; in health care, by HIPAA; or if you’re a publicly-held corporation, Sarbanes-Oxley. If you process credit card payments, there are PCI-DSS rules to consider.
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Giving your disaster preparedness exercise a cool name
It's not often that I recommend that any company, anywhere emulate the Federal government at any time, but let's give credit where it's due. The Department of Homeland Security conducted its Continuity of Operations plans yesterday.
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Planning for a pandemic
Disaster preparedness and business continuity planning revolves mainly around two things: Ensuring that IT systems and data are accessible from any location in case of disaster, and ensuring that the people are available to continue running the company on a day-to-day basis.
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When does disaster recovery kick into action?
We tend to think of disaster recovery and disaster preparedness as something that kicks in only very rarely if ever, when things like hurricanes, earthquakes, or acts of war happen. In fact, disasters come in all shapes and sizes.
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