Disaster Recovery

General steps to follow while creating BCP / DRP

1. Identify the scope and boundaries of business continuity plan. First step enables us to define scope of BCP. It provides an idea for limitations and boundaries of plan. It also includes audit and risk analysis reports for institution’s assets.
2. Conduct a business impact analysis (BIA). Business impact analysis is study and assessment of financial losses to institution resulting from destructive event as unavailability of important business services.
3. Sell the concept of BCP to upper management and obtain organizational and financial commitment. Convincing senior management to approve BCP/DRP is key task. It is very important for security professional to get approval for plan from upper management to bring it to effect.
4. Each department will need to understand its role in plan and support to maintain it. In case of disaster, each department has to be prepared for the action. To recover and to protect the critical systems each department has to understand the plan follows it accordingly. It is also important to maintain and help in creation of plan for each individual department.
5. The BCP project team must implement the plan. After approval from upper management plan should be maintained and implemented. Implementation team should follow the guidelines procedures in plan.
6. NIST tool set can be used for doing BCP. National Institute of standards and Technologies has published tools which can help in creating BCP.

Business Continuity

Cloud Client Computing

Wyse Cloud Client Portfolio

1. Wyse Cloud Clients
   • Wyse Thin Clients – Sophisticated. Secure. Friendly. Performance with flexible functionality.
   • Wyse Zero Clients – Simple. Secure. Stingy. Performance with dedicated functionality.
   • Cloud PCs – Familiar. Performance. Improved. The PC, only better – with centralized OS, applications, and content.
2. Handhelds – Complete support for Apple iOS and Google Android smartphones and tablets viaWyse PocketCloud, the leading Mobile Cloud Software for enterprises and consumers.
3. Wyse Ultra-thin Firmware – Wyse ThinOS, Linux, Windows CE and Windows Embedded Standard– the most comprehensive, secure, scalable and reliable cloud client firmware suite in the industry.

Wyse Cloud Software Portfolio

1. Wyse Cloud Client Software
   • Wyse Zero™ – Cloud-based technology engine powering a new world of cloud-connected dedicated Zero Clients.
   • Wyse Mobile Cloud Software – Wyse PocketCloud, the leading cloud-based mobile app suite connecting you to your personal, private or public cloud from any handheld.
   • Wyse Cloud PC Software – Cloud-based software to cloudify your PCs, TCs, or VMs by centralizing their OS, apps and content in a private cloud.
2. Wyse Management Software – Secure. Scalable. Cloud-centric remote device management for the extended enterprise.
3. Wyse Virtualization Software – Delivering the best user experience and optimized performance for any cloud client deployment.

Key Whitewater Benefits:

• Reduce disaster recover costs with cloud data protection
• Meet accelerated recovery SLAs
• Simplify off-site data storage for DR
• Secure offsite data
• Deploy with no change to existing backup infrastructure

Cloud Steelhead™

Cloud Steelhead™ offers the same WAN optimization functionality you’ve come to know and trust, in a form factor that’s much better suited for public cloud environments. It completely interoperates with Steelhead^® appliances, Virtual Steelhead™, and Steelhead Mobile™ clients.

Cloud Steelhead includes tools that allow for instant deployment and easy cloning of instances. It also has a uniquely advanced model for intercepting traffic in the cloud. In addition, a new portal allows for easy management and licensing, and instant upgrades of cloud Steelhead instances.

Key benefits of Cloud Steelhead:

• Instant deployment
• Simple, portal-based management
• Elastic sizing and easy cloning
• Advanced cloud interception
• Cloud-like pricing model

CDP delivers automatic, transparent backup that ensures data, applications and systems are reliably protected from common user error, hardware failure, deletion, potential disaster and malicious attack. Integrated scheduling offers administrator controls to perform backups continuously in real time or automatically on a routine basis for both files and database data set. CDP integrated scheduling performs daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly backup at a specific desired time for optimize backup operation and network resource utilization.

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Organisations should develop a proactive policy and strategy that embraces new ideas and methods to create a secure mobile workplace. “Secure mobility” is typically defined as the ability to provide employees and customers with secure “anytime, anywhere, any device” access to the corporate network.

One typical security problem that remote users may encounter is the transfer of viruses or other malware via memory cards or sync connections from infected mobile devices to laptops. Then, when infected laptops plug into a corporate network, there is the potential of further infection of internal corporate resources, possibly causing substantial damage to valuable and sensitive information. However, this is not the only security problem affecting mobile devices. The loss of data privacy that can result from a misplaced, stolen, or improperly used phone can also severely compromise corporate information.

Educate employees to use only devices that are provided by company. There are technologies to prevent unauthorised access to the network. For example, Network Admission Control (NAC) enforces policy for remote devices connecting to the corporate network, and Wireless detection devices Install wireless detection technology on your wireless networks to monitor unauthorised wireless users and the deployment of rogue access points.

There are technologies to prevent compromise of the endpoint: Client Security Software’s, Host-based Intrusion Detection/Prevention Software (IDS/IPS), and Anti-Spywares. There are technologies to prevent information loss or data loss or exposure to information: Data Encryption, and Information/Data Leak Prevention (ILP / DLP) software’s. Monitor compliance with your organisation’s mobile policy

Benefits of Mobile workers:-
1. Improved employee productivity.
2. Eliminating traditional work boundaries and creating a more flexible workspace.
3. Improved client interactions.

Some of the more common threats to physical security include:-
1. Fire
2. Water
3. Earthquakes
4. Severe weather
5. Electricity
6. Lightning strikes
7. Sabotage/terrorism/war/theft/vandalism
8. Equipment failure
9. Loss of communications and utilities
10. Personnel loss

Organisation need to build proper and adequate mechanism to protect information from these security threats.

In addition, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 delivers an affordable deduplication option that helps IT departments to make a better use of their storage and network infrastructure, saving time and expense.

 Benefits

• Minimize downtime and meet challenging RTOs

The entire hard drive contents can be fully recovered in minutes, instead of hours or days— including the operating system, applications and data.

• Centralized management improves IT productivity

The backup and recovery processes of all workstations and servers are carried out from a single location on the network — includes a centralized dashboard to provide an overview of the configured and running operations on all systems, enhancing control and decision making.

• Storage and network savings through data deduplication

The Acronis^® Backup & Recovery^™ 10 Deduplication option provides affordable file- and block- level software deduplication functionality, helping organizations of all sizes to make a better use of their storage infrastructure and save costs.

• Automate recovery with a simple, guided process

An intuitive interface makes it easy to install, quick to configure and deploy, and simple to use for both IT personnel and novices.

• Free IT personnel from repetitive tasks

Grouping procedures enable policies and procedures to be implemented across a known range of systems, making it possible to carry out a mass recovery of many machines in minutes, rather than hours or days.

• Fast and easy recovery

OS, applications and all data can be fully recovered in minutes, instead of hours or days.

• Recover an entire system, single file or folder

Acronis image-based recoveries give you the granularity you need for any kind of recovery, putting you back in business in a hurry.

• Acronis^® Advantage^SM support and maintenance program

The Acronis^® Advantage^SM program is an enhanced, multi-level subscription-based support and maintenance program. The first year of Acronis Advantage is included in the license price.

Key Features

• Centralized management

Policy-based management of all backup and recovery operations from a single console.

• Enhanced support for virtual environments

Backup and recovery of VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and Parallels virtual environments via a traditional agent-based approach. For a more comprehensive approach of backing up virtual machines and environments, Acronis also offers Acronis^® Backup & Recovery^™ 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition .

• Data deduplication

File-and block-level deduplication eliminates backup copies of the same data and delivers substantial storage cost savings.

• Scalability

Support as many as thousands of machines, backing up to multiple storage nodes.

• Monitoring

Dashboard provides an overview of all configured and running operations, highlighting any processes that require attention.

• Advanced scheduling capabilities

Backups can be triggered based on preset events and conditions.

• Advanced encryption technology ensures data security

Provides extra layers of security to ensure that the backup data is protected.

Ref:- Acronis