Data loss - an understanding

The good nt333 is that in 7 - 0 ‘3 I) of reportt’d in- stances lost data ~vc’t-t’ retrieved hut the bad news is that in man!. cases the loss can bc attributed to users’ Ion, arvareness of options. This comes from ;t com pany which should krto\\. what it is talking ahout ~ Ontrack Data Recovery Europe Ltd.

Their new study called CJnrlcwtar?rlilq Lhto Loss Report. is aimed at all users from stand-alone systems to corporations and helps explain the ha- sits of data loss and hon to assess your situation

Ontrack’s engineers have examined no less than fi.fl.1’ thoiisarld hard drives and other storage media reported to Ix “inaccessil~le” to the user. Ha\4ng in most cases been able to diag- nose and rectify the pt-o- blem, the company felt it \vould he useful to share some of this information with others.

and niaximisc chances of reco~xzn~.

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Auditors’ Guide from IIA The US Institute of In- dreds of audit and ternal Auditors (HA) accounting resources new book The AudG by serving as “a map tar’s Guide to Internet leading readers from an Resources, authored by introduction to the In- Jim Kaplan, is aimed at ternet to particular in- helping internal audi- formation for auditors”. tors in accessing hun-

Internet blamed for US security breaches 1ccording to 2 tie\\3 rc- the past year, against 424, xx-t in Complrter lPtiek()f the previous year. In ad iearlj~ half of the I_6 firms dition. Internet txe&tches

polled in an FBI computer rose to i7”,> from .i”b;.

security sunny have iden- i&d their Internet con-

SOrn~ ‘5’:) ha\x, had

iection as a point of security attacks from

tttack as intrusions con- fraud to theft of proprie-

.inue to rise. tar)- data. Financial losses. totalling over b 1 OOrn

In collaboration with (33 1 iii ) were incurred

:he San Francisco-based . 131, 5W1 of‘ the Arms \Tith

::omputer Security Insti- nc:trl~~ S-tm lost by at tacks

.ute. the FBI sunxyed by insiders ~ between

ionic 56.1 cornpanics. re- one and fi\,e internal at-

,xxtling that no less than tacks wet-c rcporttd I,!. tc)% had been attacked in -t.3’>0 of the firms.

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Hi-tech disaster recovery centre opens in US \ tie\v husincss rccovcq~ :entrc that will help cus- tomcrs to ensure that their computer systetns and ultimately. their busi- ncsscs. can continue to run even \+.heti 3 disaster disrupts their operations has txcn opened by IBM. It will provide the tech- nology and skills to help customers implement business continuit), and reco\.er) strategies for ;t wide range of equipment hind platforms.

The $34 million. 65 000-square-foot cen- tre is quipped with the latest. most advanced technolog) in the indus- tr)’ to meet the recovc~ requirements of large. distributed and end-user customers. It \vas un- veiled recentl~~ to local dignitaries, employees and the media. The equipment installed ;tt

the new ccntre includes the tlew~cst <:l%IoS-lxlsed IBM S?3tetn/SW(a) Paral- lcl Enterprise Ser\,ers. Uith 500 MIPS of S .WO processing capaciq.. dis- tributed sj’stem pIat- forms for midrange and w.orkstation cn\-iron- mcnts, and 3.0 trralytcs of direct access storage devices (DASD).

The facilit): also pro- vides support for IBRI KS/ 6000 SP(a). Digital Equip- ment Corporation At- pha(b) and \‘AX(b). and Tandem Himalaya(b) platforms, xvith pl;ttis to expand support for other \x3idor equipment.

The facility is butIt to the highest level of relia- bility with backup sys-

tetns for alternate power generation, thereby en- suring continuity of clec- trial, cooling, navork and other services.

Computer Audit Update l April 1997 ‘( 1997. $17.00 Elsevier Science Ltd.