Is security a concern to your office? Would the laptop carry any confidential clients' information? How do you secure the data if the laptop (or even desktop) falls into the wrong hands?
Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) / Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
No matter if it is DRP or BCP, the term is very misleading! A lot of my clients told me that they had DRP / BCP.
Great! But all they have was just a plan! They never tried it and when disaster really comes; then they found out that there was a HUGE gap between PLAN and REALITY!
DRP / BCP is not just a document that sit inside your server. It is something that we have to test it out, not just once! But I would encourage you to test it at least every 6 month!
How often did you have fire drill back you were in university?
I lost my desktop a few weeks ago. All I did was plugin the keyboard, mouse and monitor to my laptop and work is normal. My laptop has only 4GB memory and I found it was slower than my desktop when I need to do development but all my data / documents are on the cloud.
How about your USB flash drive? Do you know it would only take me minutes (or seconds) to access your file if they are not encrypted on your hard drive or USB flash drive if I stole them?
How good is your IT security in your office? Do you have an IT security policy?
Everything is relative! Is cloud secured? I don't know! Do I think Google, IBM, Microsoft or Yahoo have better security than most accountant firms? Yes, I do think so!
Cloud computing is nothing new? How many of us have our own web server or email server? Not all of us have the resources to run our own web server and email server; so how do we secure our email that has sensitive clients information in the last 5 years?
If we take precaution, i.e. don't use public computer, don't connect to unsecured WiFi network, don't open unknown email......., I don't see why cloud computer is less secure than our own IT environment.
My answers
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Is security a concern to your office? Would the laptop carry any confidential clients' information? How do you secure the data if the laptop (or even desktop) falls into the wrong hands?
-- Regards,
Andrew Chan
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/alginc
Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) / Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
No matter if it is DRP or BCP, the term is very misleading! A lot of my clients told me that they had DRP / BCP.
Great! But all they have was just a plan! They never tried it and when disaster really comes; then they found out that there was a HUGE gap between PLAN and REALITY!
DRP / BCP is not just a document that sit inside your server. It is something that we have to test it out, not just once! But I would encourage you to test it at least every 6 month!
How often did you have fire drill back you were in university?
I lost my desktop a few weeks ago. All I did was plugin the keyboard, mouse and monitor to my laptop and work is normal. My laptop has only 4GB memory and I found it was slower than my desktop when I need to do development but all my data / documents are on the cloud.
-- Regards,
Andrew Chan
[email protected]
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/alginc
http://www.algconsultings.com/
Did you encrypted your data on your hard drive?
How about your USB flash drive? Do you know it would only take me minutes (or seconds) to access your file if they are not encrypted on your hard drive or USB flash drive if I stole them?
How good is your IT security in your office? Do you have an IT security policy?
Everything is relative! Is cloud secured? I don't know! Do I think Google, IBM, Microsoft or Yahoo have better security than most accountant firms? Yes, I do think so!
Cloud computing is nothing new? How many of us have our own web server or email server? Not all of us have the resources to run our own web server and email server; so how do we secure our email that has sensitive clients information in the last 5 years?
If we take precaution, i.e. don't use public computer, don't connect to unsecured WiFi network, don't open unknown email......., I don't see why cloud computer is less secure than our own IT environment.
-- Regards,
Andrew Chan
[email protected]
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/alginc
http://algconsultings.wordpress.com/