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Re: [PEN-TEST] Disaster Recovery
From: Robert.Hall () ALLFIRST COM
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:51:52 -0500
Tony, John Walsh from our Information Security group has forwarded your concern to me and asked that I provide you with my perspective on the issue. There probably is no simple solution to this growing concern. Just like you I grew up in a mainframe environment and when I started Contingency Planning here at Allfirst Bank back in 1984 our focus was on recovering the mainframe and several critical midrange platforms. As our whole distributed environment has grown over the past 5 years we have also struggled with getting our arms around the whole integrated testing issue. I would be happy to discuss the issues with you. There are many things that need to be in place to ensure that adequate backup exists and this typically equates to how much money a company wants to spend to address this issue. You now have my EMail address and my direct telephone number is (410)545-2623. Thanks, Bob Hall jpw ---------------------- Forwarded by John P Walsh/NOTES on 11/14/2000 12:33 PM --------------------------- Tony Tony <tony572000 () HOTMAIL COM> on 11/13/2000 11:01:36 PM Please respond to Penetration Testers <PEN-TEST () SECURITYFOCUS COM> To: PEN-TEST () SECURITYFOCUS COM cc: (bcc: John P Walsh/NOTES) Subject: [PEN-TEST] Disaster Recovery Members Does anyone know of a list serve that specializes in discussions related to Disaster Recovery of mainframe/client-server systems. Seems like when we think of IT security, disaster recovery is just not the current hot topic. However, with the rapid deployment of national computer applications that integrate with multiple data centers, extranets, ISP's, VPN's, etc..how do you plan for disaster recovery?? To me, this is just as big of a computer security risk, as someone breaking into your computer systems. Has it become to complex? Are we just playing down the issue? In the old days with mainframe computers it was pretty straight forward..however today..different story. In my current job, I am a firewall administrator and also head up a team for the deployment of intrusion detection and penetration security tools. I am still baffled that no one in IT seems to care much about disaster recovery. Maybe, I am just not hanging out with the right types of IT folks. However, I have worked for a number of companies and disaster recovery, just does not seem to be an important issue when you think about computer security. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Current thread:
- [PEN-TEST] Disaster Recovery Tony Tony (Nov 15)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Disaster Recovery David Spinks (Nov 15)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Disaster Recovery Swen Schisler (Nov 15)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Disaster Recovery Gregor Binder (Nov 15)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Disaster Recovery Robert Cohen (Nov 15)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Disaster Recovery Philip Rothstein (Nov 15)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Disaster Recovery Rietveld, Peter (Nov 15)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Disaster Recovery Robert Cohen (Nov 16)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Disaster Recovery Deborah Ray (Nov 15)
- Re: [PEN-TEST] Disaster Recovery Robert . Hall (Nov 15)