Comments on: IT Managers Under-Estimate Impact Of Data Loss http://www.darknet.org.uk/2009/06/it-managers-under-estimate-impact-of-data-loss/ Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing & Computer Security Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:04:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Bogwitch http://www.darknet.org.uk/2009/06/it-managers-under-estimate-impact-of-data-loss/#comment-158120 Bogwitch Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:51:26 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/?p=1877#comment-158120 I am also very suprised by that figure. I wonder if they are talking about data loss in terms of availability or confidentiality? From the article, it would appear that availability was the issue. I have seen many, many businesses during my time in InfoSec, I can name only one that had a good handle on backups, what was required, storage, testing, etc. Not down to good management but due to a single techie who knew his stuff. If that company were to lose him, they would be in the same boat as everyone else. So many times I have seen a backup try to grab the whole WINNT directory yet fail to capture all the user areas. More of a problem is a lack of user education, meaning users storing their work on local drives, desktops, My Documents etc, and the backups running across the servers every night, backing up the same stuff they've been backing up since they were started. Darknet, it's good to hear you are making regular backups now, has it always been the case? ;) I am also very suprised by that figure. I wonder if they are talking about data loss in terms of availability or confidentiality?

From the article, it would appear that availability was the issue. I have seen many, many businesses during my time in InfoSec, I can name only one that had a good handle on backups, what was required, storage, testing, etc. Not down to good management but due to a single techie who knew his stuff. If that company were to lose him, they would be in the same boat as everyone else.

So many times I have seen a backup try to grab the whole WINNT directory yet fail to capture all the user areas.
More of a problem is a lack of user education, meaning users storing their work on local drives, desktops, My Documents etc, and the backups running across the servers every night, backing up the same stuff they’ve been backing up since they were started.

Darknet, it’s good to hear you are making regular backups now, has it always been the case? ;)

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