Essays on Backups

Introduction

Endpoint protection platform remains a security technology, which ensures that security of an endpoint device is superb in its functionality as a unit. The unit is composed of antivirus, personal firewall, anti-spyware, control application and intruded preventions styles, hosted in it. A number of Enterprise endpoint protection platforms (EPP) with higher advancement are combining patch, vulnerability and capabilities that manage configuration; this eventually enhances the protection. The current products of the EPP have included features of protection like data loss prevention, file and disk encryption and also device control, besides fighting malware. Higher number of EPP market focuses on ...

In the light of recent events that transpired on the Polk County network, I believe we need to have a proper dialogue regarding the recovery of our virtual environment in the event of a potential disaster/failure. With the rapid growth and heavy reliance of our virtual environment, I believe it’s time we begin looking into some type of software solution to take image level backups of our virtual guest servers. The majority of the City’s mission critical application servers reside on our virtual farm; in case of a true disaster/failure, we would have an extremely hard time ...

Introduction

If an employee with access to sensitive information was terminated, then the employee is considered as an insider threat. These insiders can cause three types of threats to an organization: Sabotage, Fraud, or theft of intellectual property (IP) or data using Information Technology (IT). IT sabotage uses IT to harm the critical assets of the organization. IT can be used to steal data or IP or also for espionage by insiders. Using IT to tamper data, addition, or deletion of data for personal gain or to perform an identity crime can be considered IT fraud.

Hacker’s Targets

In the present scenario, ...

Introduction

The accounting information system involves the collection, storage, and processing of data concerning financial accounting that is applied by the decision makers (Hall, 2012). Therefore, an accounting information system is computerized to track the accounting operations in conjunction with the resources of the computer. Consequently, the statistical report is used by the management internally and externally by the interested people such as the investors, tax authorities, and creditors. It combines the traditional accounting practices like the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and the resources of the current information technology. The AIS is composed of six elements as follows: people who ...

With the rising technological advancement and the need for efficiency in operation for any company, there is always a need for the development of a solution to meet these needs. In the case of Catacombs Inc., there are various technological solutions that will need to be implemented to make it competitive, deliver great customer satisfaction and increase its efficiency. This study is going to discuss the requirement, solution and the cost-benefit analysis of the proposed solution.

Requirements Analysis

The requirements for the company to implement an efficient solution are discussed as below: There is the robustness requirement in the system. This ...

Introduction

A database refers to a collection of organized information. The purpose of this configuration is to enable the easy access, management and updating of data. Databases can be grouped according to the content types they hold. They can be full-text, bibliographic databases and images. In the field of computing, databases get classified according to their approach in terms of organization. The relational database is the most common approach. It is a tabular database whereby data gets refined so as to be organized and accessed in multiple ways. Object-oriented programming databases are congruent with data defined in object subclasses and ...

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Foreign bank auxiliaries and full-benefit banks are the main two sorts of foreign bank foundations in Canada that accept savings and investments from Canadian citizens and entities. This paper will attempt a thorough review of the existing foreign banks in operation in Canada, obstacles to their progress, their relative market shares and the general future outlook. Foreign bank auxiliaries are fully registered banks in Canada that are wholly owned by foreign individuals and entities, who are not citizens of or based in Canada. Foreign banks have been allowed to operate in Canada since 1999, before that the Canadian banking ...