Foundations of Mac OS X Leopard Security

CHAPTER 15Backup and Fault Tolerance

"Stop hackers dead in their tracks by securing your systems and network." That has been our mantra up to this point. However, there is another piece in the network security pie that often goes unexamined. Any conversation about security on a system or network must go beyond discussing the prevention of unauthorized access. Securing the data on these systems with a reliable data backup scheme is a crucial element in any security framework. As digital assets become increasingly valuable, organizations are becoming more and more reliant on their data. In fact, many companies have invested large amounts of labor in building their company data, and if they were to suffer a catastrophic loss of data (for some this ...