The Cost of Data Breach

So I was skimming the trades and encountered an article that indicated UPS lost a tape for one of their customers, People’s Bank, in January containing data on 90,000 customers who use its personal credit-line services. It contained addresses, names, SSN’s. What is the cost of a data breach? Perhaps the easiest to quantify would [...]

US Dept of Energy Loses 20 Classified PC’s

Yes, 14 of the machines apparently had classified information and it’s suspected that the other six did as well. And this isn’t the first time the DOE has had reporting disappearing machines. According to the article, 269 computers were reported vanished from the Idaho National Laboratory and in 2005 an Apple G4, with its hard [...]

Backup Replacement for Vista

So you read my latest post and learned that Vista’s backup utility just isn’t going to cut it, and – like me – you pondered what would ever motivate Microsoft to cripple native Windows backup like this in the first place? And you had enough with pondering and you’re ready to find a better solution [...]

NTBACKUP and Windows Vista

Well if you haven’t heard it already, your backups in XP using ntbackup.exe will not work in Vista. Vista “upgrades” backup to a new program that is entirely UI driven, backs up only by file extensions, and creates spanned *.zip files instead of a *.bak file. Oh, it’s even more glorious. In the “new” backup, [...]

Small Business: Microsoft Exchange or Open Source?

>From: Richard Grams >Would you have any good leads for a calendaring/collaboration system for an>organization the size of 150 employees? >I suppose I am wondering, would an MS investment be the most efficient business>tool rather than something open-source or off brand that may require much more>hands on tech time… Well, first off: probably the best [...]