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In IT circles, the year 2011 is now known as “The Year of the Breach”. Major companies such as RSA, Sony, Epsilon, PBS, Citigroup, etc. have experienced serious high profile attacks. Which begs the question: if major players such as these huge multi-million dollar companies are being breached, what does that mean for my company? How can I take adequate precautions to ensure that …

In March, when RSA announced that they experienced a network attack which may have compromised their multi factor authentication systems, it was the attack heard around the world. A few weeks later consumers received notices that email marketing firm Epsilon had also suffered a major breach to the customer information from companies like Chase Bank, Walgreens and …

One of my favorite questions to ask smart IT folks is why they backup data at all. After the unavoidable litany of doing file level restores, email restores, server restores, compliance requirements, etcetera, etcetera, we come to the real answer: the guy before me did it this way.