5 Epic Fails in Data Security: Common Data Security Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

Data security is on everyone’s mind these days, and for good reason. Although the number of data breaches in the first half of 2017 was about the same as the first halves of 2015 and 2016, the number of records stolen between January 1 and June 30, 2017 has exceeded all of 2016. And that’s not counting one of largest security breaches of all time, announced in September. Many factors are contributing to the increase in successful attacks – the erosion of network perimeters and increased attack surfaces offered by more complex IT environments, a growing use of cloud services and the new demands that places on security practices, and the increasingly sophisticated nature of cyber criminals – and the landscape continues to evolve.

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How Frost Bank Reimagined Backup w/Rubrik & Pure

Frost Bank, a Texas-chartered bank with 134 branches and 1300 ATMs, is one of many organizations which values protection of their backed-up data, yet doesn't want to waste time in the process. In this webinar you will learn the ins and outs of what Rubrik & Pure Storage have to offer and how their solution defined the difference for Frost Bank. Discover how you can benefit from this back-up and data protection solution and how to get started now!

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Ultra-Fast Backup and Recovery

In the cloud era of today, across industries data is now the most critical asset in delivering competitive edge. Thus, how organizations move, store, and protect data has become vitally important. The current explosion of data growth, resulting from modern workloads like machine learning, has impacted many organizations’ backup and recovery strategies. This exposes the business to the crippling effects of data loss or system downtime due to slow data recovery. Rubrik and Pure Storage together enable a shared infrastructure that provides simple, rapid backup and restore of your most critical business data while saving on datacenter costs and simplifying management.

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Modernize Your Data Protection with Rubrik and Pure Storage

Together, Pure Storage and Rubrik deliver modern data protection to customers with primary and secondary storage platforms that are high performance, simple to manage, and efficient. Our alliance provides rapid backup and recovery of the most critical business data and most importantly, giving nights and weekend back to your IT staff.

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How to Buy Backup and Recovery: A Customer’s Evaluation

This book is meant to be a quick read to provide insight on overcoming common obstacles when choosing enterprise backup and recovery technology. This book began when the author (a Frost Bank IT professional) set out to update his backup technology. As he performed online searches, he was unable to find credible information on new technologies to help him change his enterprise backup space paradigm. He wanted something different that could restore more quickly than his existing platform and take more frequent backups, including intra-day restore points. He also wanted something easier for his teams to use, with minimal training required to become fully operational. In the end analysis, his hope is to provide readers with the valuable insights he wished someone had shared with him during his search for the backup "promised land".

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Protecting & Securing Your Critical Data with Acronis Backup

Businesses today face far more invasive and potentially damaging threats than at any time in the past. Your organization’s IT security is the first line of defense against incidents that can cause business interruption and data corruption. While backup should underpin every business’ data protection strategy, it is no longer enough. To truly protect data, you must deeply integrate security into backup and data protection processes.

Despite increasing attention to security, backup procedures are often neglected in overall security policies. Like the old adage says, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure: stopping threats before they can cause irreversible data corruption can save your business the expense and effort of data restoration. In some cases, it can be the difference in your company’s survival.

It’s important to recognize that your backups contain all of your private and potentially sensitive company data. Unauthorized access or hacking into backups can result in intellectual property theft as well as information exposure that could damage your business.

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Johnson Electric Quadruples Backup Speed and Blocks Ransomware Attacks with Acronis Backup

Global electro-mechanical components manufacturer Johnson Electric knew it had improve its uptime after it suffered a costly ransomware attack. With a new data protection solution from Acronis, It now enjoys robust defenses against ransomware attacks, swift recovery from hardware failures, much faster backup speeds, and blockchain-based protection against data tampering. Learn how a global manufacturer brought its backup and ransomware defenses into the 21st century. Get this complimentary case study today.

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The Total Economic Impact of IBM Security Guardium – en_US (April 2018)

Data security presents a complex challenge to organizations. The value of sensitive data, and particularly customer data, has increased exponentially over time, but with it comes an increase in potential liability and exposure. Successful enterprise security and compliance strategy needs to balance out: the rapid growth of data within organizations’ environments; the complexity of regulations and compliance across industries; and the threat of internal and external attacks.

To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with a Guardium implementation, Forrester interviewed three customers with multiple years of experience using Guardium. IBM Security Guardium offers a family of integrated modules for managing the entire data security and compliance life cycle, which is built on a single, unified infrastructure with a unified user experience. Guardium is designed to support and secure a wide range of data environments, including: databases; data warehouses; file systems; and cloud, virtual, and big data-based systems.

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Elevate your Game: Take Data Security to the Next Level

Five benefits of supercharging your data security and compliance efforts with a security-specific big data lake

This paper describes the roadblocks that organizations may face as they seek to take their data security and compliance efforts to the next level while juggling multiple priorities, including:

  • The administrative demands imposed by the management of huge volumes of data.
  • The need to retain those volumes of data over longer time horizons.
  • The need to maintain or improve performance/speed of reporting.
  • The need to provide direct access to data (“free” the data) to users with many different roles and responsibilities.
  • The need to enrich audit data with other types of related security and compliance data while also performing complex analytics on this data to reveal new risks and/or insights.

The pages that follow will explore how organizations can take steps to address the hurdles above, and in doing so, reach new levels of efficiency and sophistication in data security and compliance management.

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5 Steps to Achieve Risk-Based Application Security Management

Software applications support the most sensitive and strategically important business processes of most enterprises. Yet application security is one of the most neglected fields of cybersecurity.

IT and business management typically have no visibility into the overall state of application security. Activities for assessing, prioritizing and remediating application vulnerabilities are ad hoc, fragmented and carried out at low levels in the IT security organization. Quality assurance and software development groups lack the knowledge and incentives to address critical vulnerabilities early in application development lifecycles, where testing and fixing vulnerabilities are most cost-effective.

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Ponemon Institute’s 2017 State of Mobile & IoT Application Security Study

Ponemon Institute is pleased to present the findings of the 2017 Study on Mobile and Internet of Things Application Security sponsored by IBM and Arxan Technologies. The purpose of this research is to understand how companies are reducing the risk of mobile apps and Internet of Things (IoT) in the workplace. The risks created by mobile apps have been well researched and documented. This study reveals how companies are unprepared for risks created by vulnerabilities in IoT apps.

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Veeam®-Pure Storage®_webinar

View our recent webinar to learn about the joint integration between Veeam and Pure Storage. Pure Storage is offering a NEW plug-in that provides superior integration with Veeam, enabling:

  • Exceptional backup performance
  • Rapid data recovery
  • Enhanced accessibility to production data copies to drive business change

Click here to watch our 40 min webinar

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Pure Storage® Interview Veeam® On Interview

You’ve heard about our snapshot integration, but did you know that Veeam and Pure Storage have other solutions that may also fit your data center needs?

Check out this 7min video to hear little more about some of our other offerings including Rapid Restore to FlashBlade, Virtual Data Center in a Box, and more!

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Virtual Data Center in a Box

Although all organizations today face challenges managing and mining their data for our new data-centric world, when IT budgets are constrained, these challenges are even more daunting. To break through these barriers, four vendors – Cisco®, Pure Storage®, VMware® and Veeam® – have combined their development efforts to provide a cost-effective converged solution ideal for entry-level data centers or branch office deployments.

Virtual Data Center FlashStack™ Mini includes compute, networking and Pure Storage flash storage, combined with Veeam data availability software, to safely deploy up to 500 to 1200 VMware vSphere® virtual machines with less than 1 ms response time for the most demanding applications.

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All-flash Availability for the Always-On Enterprise

Together, Pure® Storage and Veeam enable the Always-On Enterprise™ to meet service level agreements (SLAs) for ALL applications and data.

The Pure Storage data platform powers virtualization by allowing administrators to consolidate workloads without sacrificing performance and to achieve 100% virtualization with confidence. Pure Storage enables scale from hundreds to thousands of VMs without disruption, and is completely managed inside vCenter.

Pure Storage FlashArray provides fast and reliable block storage for your production data, as well as local snapshots for rapid restore. FlashBlade™, a highly dense all-flash data platform designed for big data and concurrent workloads, enables you to store large data sets in a small data center footprint and restore them rapidly.

Veeam Software leverages virtual machine capabilities, Pure Storage snapshots, image based backups and cloud technologies that enable the Always-On Enterprise to achieve recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs), of <15 minutes for All applications and data. Veeam simplifies IT operational management, mitigates risk and dramatically reduces capital and operational costs.

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