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Compliant Database DevOps and the role of DevSecOps
DevOps is now widely accepted in software development because, by introducing a culture of collaboration and cooperation between development and IT operations teams, it enables features to be released faster to end users. But how can the database join the conversation? Can the same principles be followed, or should they be modified? How can increasing regulatory pressure around data privacy and protection be satisfied? What additional measures should be considered so that the security of data can be protected alongside the code and truly compliant Database DevOps is achieved?
This whitepaper details how and why DevOps can be applied to the database, and then outlines the steps necessary to include it in DevSecOps.
Database DevOps
Continuous delivery has changed the rules of the game. It’s not just about moving from big bang releases to smaller, faster, more frequent releases. It’s about putting in place a process so that reliable software can be deployed without problems, at any time.
One of the biggest advantages is in automating the repetitive development and testing processes that development teams use to deliver, manage, and maintain applications and databases. From version controlling changes to deploying them to different environments, and, when ready, choosing to deploy to production, continuous delivery helps teams reduce risk and increase both efficiency and reliability in the software release process.
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.
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.
Leveraging Machine Learning to Secure Data
To defend your organization’s critical data against new malware threats like ransomware, you need innovative new technologies like machine learning (ML). Learn how ML-enhanced data protection works and how it can help.
Criminal hackers are churning out new malware threats faster that signature-based anti-virus software can keep up. The only way to defeat data-destroying attacks like ransomware is with counter-measures that can spot and terminate new threats on the fly.
Get a copy of this complimentary white paper for a quick tutorial on:
- How ML can be used to analyze and identify even previously-unknown malware strains
- How ML-assisted backup defeats ugly new threats like ransomware
- How Acronis Backup with Active Protection uses ML to stop ransomware dead
Lethal new threats to your data require adaptive defenses with the responsiveness of machine learning. Learn how to builds yours with the help of this free white paper today.
8 ESSENTIAL PRACTICES FOR HYPERVISOR BACKUP
Virtualization tools like Hyper-V, Nutanix, VMware and other hypervisors allow systems to overcome physical barriers between resources while optimizing server and storage utilization as well as offering increasing flexibility. But protecting the environment and the ever-growing amount of structured and unstructured data being created is still too often ineffectively addressed with complex, on-premises secondary storage models that come with heavy administrative overhead and infrastructure costs. The cloud is not shackled by these limitations.
The cloud is meeting the increasing needs related to business continuity and information governance as new trends change how infrastructure resiliency and long-term retention shape the data protection landscape. Download this asset to learn 8 essential real-world practices to put in place for hypervisor backup, archival and disaster recovery (DR).
THE CLOUD-FIRST DATA PROTECTION PLAYBOOK
Transitioning data protection to the cloud isn’t easy. Simply relocating legacy backup solutions can lead to unexpected costs, incomplete data, and compromised performance. It can also make it difficult to comply with regional data privacy rules that limit how data can be copied and stored. Businesses get best results from a thoughtful cloud strategy that considers how data is stored, secured, and kept resilient. Download our playbook, providing key strategies for CIOs to consider—and pitfalls to avoid—when transitioning backups and disaster recovery to the cloud.
How to Perfect Your Sales Process
Designing a sales process before you reach out to your prospects will help you win more sales with less effort. The best sales process will make it easier for leads to make their final buying decision. Plus, the process will suit most of your customers and be scalable as your organization grows.
5 Essential Data Points to Consider When Selecting a Remote Support Solution
The better your engagement and support processes are, the more efficient and productive your business will be. But you need the right remote support tool and choosing the best one for your organization is critical to success. Look not at just the solution's features but also at what it offers you in the results. Many competitors and non purpose built support solutions won't give you the results you need to get the job done right and on time. Consider these results as you investigate the use of a remote support tool.
Support Services as a Competitive Differentiator
Fast and effective support will be a competitive differentiator for companies and represents a strategic opportunity in a digitally transformed world. As the number of devices increases and users expect that the time to resolution contracts rapidly, organizations are challenged to deliver uninterrupted access and use of IT devices and applications. Learn the necessary steps to transform your help desk in 2018.
Biggest Tech Support Time Wasters
When it comes to IT support, time is money. When you take into account loss of employee productivity, a company of 10 employees could lose as much as $183/hour of downtime plus the cost of support. When downtime occurs, every minute counts, and communication is key - especially if the issues are actually easy to fix.This infographic highlights some of the biggest communication barriers to resolving tickets.
The Real Value of Remote Support: Projecting the ROI of GoToAssist
Digital transformation initiatives are built upon the ability to leverage IT resources anywhere and anytime needed. Fast and effective support is a key foundational requirement in a digitally transformed world. This paper explores the business case for adopting GoToAssist. Technology Finance Partners, a firm specializing in producing ROI analysis, has cooperated with LogMeIn to estimate the value and overall ROI.
How to Transform Employee Worst Practices Into Enterprise Best Practices
Despite all the funds you may have spent on state-of-the-art security software, the bad guys are just one gullible user click away from staging an all-out invasion.
Such incidents are skyrocketing. According to a recent study by Osterman Research, email is the most prevalent channel of infiltration into the enterprise. Yet by far the most effective strategy in combating these attacks is also one of the most poorly implemented – security awareness training.
Find out what the true best practices are for security awareness training – those that establish a human firewall to effectively block hackers and criminals, and keep you out of the headlines.
This whitepaper provides:
- Top 10 Enterprise Security Best (and Worst) Employee Practices.
- Clear direction on how to go about improving your organization’s security posture by “inoculating” employees who fall for social engineering attacks.
How to Fortify Your Organization’s Last Layer of Security – Your Employees
People impact security outcomes, much more often than any technology, policy or process. Cyber security threats continue to proliferate and become more costly to businesses that suffer a data breach.
When it comes to combating these growing risks, most organizations continue to place more trust in technology-based solutions than on training their employees to be more aware of the threat landscape and able to recognize the red flags in cyber breach attempts.
Download this whitepaper to learn how to best combat these threats including 5 recommended actions you can take to fortify your organization's last layer of security - your employees.