Purchasing a new enterprise storage system is usually the largest data center equipment purchase for most companies. The cost is justified because these systems store and protect the companies most critical data and applications. In fact, the purchase often includes multiple systems so it can provide quick recovery at another location in case of a natural disaster or power outage. So how do these storage vendors reward their customers for… Read More
Who does CASB and Why Do We Need It?
A cloud access security broker, usually referred to as a CASB, offers a security gateway between your company’s IT infrastructure and that of a cloud provider. Companies use a CASB to extend their own IT governance policies and government regulations to third-party software and storage. If you have concerns about internal or external security threats, monitoring usage and behavior, or auditing historical data, you may need a CASB. To understand… Read More
HID/HIPS & Information Management: Hardening the Backup Infrastructure
Let’s take a moment to examine the potential of Symantec’s Data Center Security Agents on Veritas NetBackup Appliances They once lived happily ever after… Many of you should be familiar with the big names in information management and security. Veritas and Symantec. Once separate entities, they courted each other, merged under the same umbrella, and then due to wanting different things in life, the two companies split apart. During… Read More