DATA LOSS AND STRATEGIES FOR PREVENTION

Data Loss and Strategies for Prevention



ABSTRACT

Each year, the loss of data resulting in a shortfall of several billion dollars for companies that suffers. The importance of electronic data in today's business world is as important as verbal communication. To communicate with customers, partners and suppliers, institutions today use technologies such as e-mail, instant messaging and other web-based communication medium one. This increased efficiency of our communication led to new risks with regard to confidentiality of the information originated. The below report will analyze the concept of data loss in detail and suggest the preventive strategies to avoid future loss.

Data Loss and Strategies for Prevention

Understand the data loss

In today's environment, the PC desktop Macs, thin clients, laptops, PDAs, smart phones and Internet kiosks are used for permanent access network data and files personal. The mobility of the data increases steadily and high capacity portable media can store several gigabytes of information. FireWire protocols, Bluetooth and USB, provide an instant connectivity (both authorized and unauthorized) to storage devices corporate data (Buzan & Barry, 1997).

Protecting these large amounts of private and confidential data used by organizations private and government agencies is now a major challenge for IT and security teams.

Computer users and many experts often think that the data that have damaged are lost forever, with no hope of recovery. In addition, information about data recovery can be complex, irregular and inaccurate, and not surprising that data loss and recovery are some of the more confusing and difficult to understand (Campbell & David, 1992). Data can be one of its most valuable and vulnerable. In our experience, the main threats to your data are:

Causes of Data Loss

Human-Caused Threats

When the loss or corruption of data is not the result a technical phenomenon but a bodily action, it necessary to differentiate between human actions includes Volunteers malicious (hacking a website), Voluntary, non-malicious (deleting a file) and Unintentional (poor handling). In the first place in the scale and destructiveness, of course, is just the human factor, i.e., accidental or deliberate damage of information. Roughly speaking hit the Delete key by mistake and accidentally formatted my hard drive (Casey & Eoghan, 2000).

Accidental Threats

Various reasons can cause physical or logical loss data access. In most cases, data are still physically stored on computer media, but they are no longer available. All users are familiar with the problem of data loss.

Natural disasters

Whether it is a memorable photograph, video or any official document, the data in form whatsoever are invaluable. Once lost, some data may never be recreated or involve a significant investment in time and money to regain their original level. Even the smallest catastrophe can lead to a serious failure. If the lost data are of commercial importance, the consequences can be greater, causing a huge loss both commercial and personal. Whatever the precautions we take a loss of data due to a natural disaster can never be prevented, and the devastating effects are still out of ...