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The Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Plan has been purchased for use in government, public, and private enterprises in almost all industries including:
March 29th, 2007
AC failure shuts down government computers
A massive air-conditioning failure at a state office complex shut down
government computer traffic statewide and forced emergency managers to begin
backup plans. The states main Web site, MyFlorida.com, was down or slowed to a crawl much
of the morning and unable to handle the 3 million inquiries it gets daily,
including applications for state licenses. A chiller plant at the Capital Circle Office Complex began leaking at about
5:15 p.m. on Monday and was shut down a few hours later, said Department of
Management Services.
March 6th, 2007
RFID chips will eventually be combined with GPS technology
Imation said it will begin shipping its RFID
tape-tracking technology in April. The technology embeds RFID chips in
standard tape-cartridge labels, allowing them to be scanned either
individually with a handheld device or by placing cases with up to 20 tapes
inside on a scanning pad. While the GPS tracking system will not be part of
the initial product launch next month, over the next two months,
Imation plans to announce when GPS technology will be
available in order to locate cartridges no matter where they
are.
January 27th, 2007
ISO 17799, SOX, HIPPA Compliant Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Template Released
New
with this version of the Disaster Recovery Planning
Template are:
January 14th, 2007
ISO 17799 Template Released
January 12th, 2007
IT Caught Off Guard by Warning
November 28th, 2006
Avoiding Data Migration Delays
November 10th, 2006
NFL tackles disaster recovery
The National Football League Inc. organization,
which had about 200GB of stored data, started out with a 500GB system at
AmeriVault and took an initial snapshot – which took about a day – and then
shipped it to Waltham, Mass., to be loaded into the AmeriVault data centers. It
was then shipped back to Baltimore, and every night, any files that were changed
during the day get backed up to the Massachusetts facility. The data is also
mirrored to a facility in Illinois.
September 14th, 2006
Microsoft patches one Office flaw, leaves another
Attackers could exploit the bug
by tricking Office users into opening a maliciously encoded .pub document, which
would then allow attackers to run unauthorized software on a victim's PC. These
.pub documents are created by Microsoft's Publisher software, an Office
component used for designing print and online business publications. Microsoft rates the bug as "critical" for Publisher
2000, but this warning has been downgraded to "important" for the Publisher 2002
and Publisher 2003 products. Some security experts expected Microsoft to fix a
similar bug in Word, which has been used by online attackers over the past few
weeks, but that problem remains unfixed. Microsoft acknowledged the Word problem last week and
probably did not have time to run a fix through its quality assurance tests,
said Jonathan Bitle, a manager of technical accounts at Qualys Inc. "It's really
late in their engineering cycle, so it's understandable that they wouldn't
manage to get something out," he said. Both the Word and Publisher bugs rely on the same
type of attack to work: An attacker e-mails a malicious document and somehow
tricks the victim into clicking on the attachment. Security experts have been seeing more of these
Office flaws exploited of late. "This is one of the trends that we have
observed," said Amol Sarwate, director of the Qualys vulnerability research lab.
"The growing number of client-side vulnerabilities where you have a malformed
Publisher file or Word file or Excel file."
September 5th, 2006
Red Cross automates volunteer communications with AlertFind
AlertFind is a crisis management and communications tool from Austin-based MessageOne Inc.
"What used to take 20 volunteers and a few days to do
can now take one person typing in an announcement and one person monitoring the
results," Magnuson said. "We can mobilize the 1,500 or so volunteers much
quicker, using a lot less resources. We would have a number of volunteers come
into our office, and we would have lists of people to call, and we'd just divide
up the list and make a telephone call to them."
September 2nd, 2006
DRP for Web Sites
Janco Associates, Inc. (Janco), announced today the
release of Version 4.1 of its Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Template. This electronic document is over 183 pages and can be used in the
creation of a unique Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and Business Continuity plan
(BCP) for any entity. In the process of creating DRPs and BCPs for organizations
across the country, Janco has found every department, in every corporation or
organization needs a universal, yet comprehensive DRP and BCP to safeguard the
use of their computers and all related equipment and information which support
enterprise wide operations in the event of a disaster. Version 4.1 has detail activation procedures for the
plan as well as a specific form set for web site that are informational and
e-commerce based.
August 31st, 2006
Chinese government allocates 120 million yuan for disaster recovery
June 30th, 2006
Unauthorized Systems Access Is Security Execs' Top Concern
April 20th, 2006
IT Service Management SOA Policy Template Released by Janco
March 31st, 2006
Fidelity National Aims to Halt Backup Failures
March 28th, 2006
Open Document Format Standards Group Expanded
Microsoft joined the V1 Text Processing: Office and
Publishing Systems Interface group within the International Committee for
Information Technology Standards (INCITS), a Washington-based organization. The
INCITS is involved in recommending what technologies should become ISO
standards, and the V1 Text Processing group in particular deals with office
document formats.
ODF is overseen by the Organization for the
Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) and is supported by
Microsoft rivals IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc., among other companies. They want
to see ODF adopted internationally as the standard for office documents and the
software that creates and manages these documents, such as Microsoft's popular
Office suite and rivals such as Star Office from Sun. The commonwealth of
Massachusetts has already put in motion a plan to migrate its documents from
proprietary formats to ODF, a process it hopes to implement beginning in January
2007.
March 17th, 2006
Wi-Fi network now a lifeline for DRP in New Orleans
Today it still performs police duties, but as the
lone public communications system left in the city, it also carries VoIP traffic
that is the lifeline for many city businesses.
The storm wiped out wireline phone service and
cellular networks, and those that it didn't destroy outright couldn't be kept up
because the city could not get fuel to the backup generators needed to keep the
networks running, Meffert told an audience at a session during Spring VON 2006
this week.
March 3rd, 2006
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Template Released
The
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Template Version 4.0 was just
released. It is a MS Word document that can be used as a DRP - BCP template for
any enterprise. The template and supporting material have been updated to be
Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA compliant. The Disaster Planning Template
includes: New with version 4.0 are: Go to http://www.e-janco.com/drp.htm
February 12th, 2006
ITSM Policy Templated Updated
Victor Janulaitis, CEO of Janco and the IT
Productivity Center said "IT infrastructure productivity is the core of our
firm's practice. We have created a set of tools to improve the productivity and
quality of service provided by the IT function. With the IT Service Management
Template and our Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Resource Kit enterprises of all sizes
can quickly implement best practices." In addition he said. "... the IT Service
Management template is now included in the CIO Productivity Bundle." The CIO
Productivity Bundle, which is Sarbanes-Oxley compliant can be found at http://www.itproductivity.org/offer_cio.htm. The IT Service Management Template ( http://www.itproductivity.org/itsm.htm
) contains policies, standards, procedures and metrics for Change Control, Help
Desk and Service Request processing. The ITSM Template also contains the IT
Productivity Center's Business and IT Impact Questionnaire, a Change Control
Request Form and an Internet Use Approval Form. The template comes as a word
document which can be used as a template to create customized procedures for any
size enterprise. The Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Resource Kit (http://www.itproductivity.org/SOX.htm
) which was released in January now has a Platinum Edition which contains the IT
Service Management Template. Janco also announced the activation of its new web
site www.it-toolkits.com. The site provides productivity tools for IT and the
Chief Information Officer in particular. Included are Janco's Browser Study, CIO
Productivity Kit, Disaster Recovery Template, Security Template, IT Salary
Survey, IT Job Descriptions, and Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Resource
Kit.
February 7th, 2006
Lost backup tapes not (much of) a danger
There's been a lot of coverage lately concerning lost
backup tapes in the last couple of months. In December, Marriott International revealed that they'd lost
tapes with over 200,000 customer records on
them. And just last month, the People's Bank in Connecticut lost tapes with 90,000 records on them. Some experts say, don't fret about it. Tapes are fragile and easily ruined, it takes
specialized software and hardware to decode a backup tape, and there are much
easier ways to get the same information. All these things are true, and
are probably good reasons you should not be to worried about these
breaches. But the people responsible for these tapes should in no way use
this as justification to marginalize the loss of these
tapes.
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The Security Manual
for the Internet and Information Technology is over 200 pages in length.
The template is compliant with ISO 17799, Sarbanes-Oxley, Patriot Act and HIPAA.
All versions of the Security Manual template include both the Business & IT
Impact Questionnaire and the Threat & Vulnerability Assessment Tool (both
were redesigned to address Sarbanes Oxley compliance). In addition,
the Security Manual Template PREMIUM Edition
contains 16 detail job descriptions that apply specifically to security and
Sarbanes Oxley. 
