Infrastructure Solutions

Security Information Protection

Security is not just about protecting your information technology infrastructure from outside and internal breaches, and other malicious influences. It is most important to keep your company's data is always available—both for mission-critical business applications and regulatory compliance purposes. It is also about ensuring that you can restore the information you need, when you need it, efficiently and cost-effectively.

Micro Strategies' solutions offer comprehensive, reliable disaster recovery and restoration plans that fulfill business requirements for system availability and data recovery. Additionally, we offer consultative services to meet individual requirements including e-Discovery and regulatory compliance requirements.

Our security assessments set the stage for your company's ongoing business continuance policies. Plus, our two Technology Solution Centers (located more than one hundred miles apart) provide the unique ability to demonstrate disaster recovery capabilities and business continuity services.

Security

The first step to implementing a comprehensive data protection plan is to understand the vulnerabilities and risks that exist today, information that can be uncovered through the Micro Strategies security assessment. The Micro Strategies team will work with your company's management to identify potential regulatory compliance issues, gauge your infrastructure's reliability and availability through penetration testing, and pinpoint unique requirements and business processes that can affect business continuance strategy. From this foundation, we provide a tailored IT security solution.

Our program also includes security awareness training to ensure that your personnel are aware of ways to mitigate threats.

Business Continuance

Micro Strategies understands that data loss can be caused by any manner of things, from network breaches to operating system and application bugs, hardware failures, power outages or natural disasters. That's why we believe in offering a unified information management approach - across the entire enterprise—with tools that keep your disaster recovery plan current.

Total data protection hinges on a thorough back-up and recovery strategy, one that can demonstrate compliance with applicable standards, regulations and laws. Our practice includes supporting unstructured business information, e-mail, archiving and back-up solutions; designing business, litigation and regulatory data storage and retrieval solutions; handling data migration; and performing data shredding or destruction in compliance with standards set out by the Department of Defense.

Micro Strategies' Disk Overwrite Solution provides clients with the ability to perform on-site and remote destruction of data on live or decommissioned storage systems anywhere in the world.

Solution Details:

  • Addresses a multitude of compliance issues mandated by privacy laws and regulatory requirements
  • Facilitates the protection of proprietary data residing on corporate assets scheduled for re-tasking or decommissioning
  • Includes a "segregation of duties" into distinct elements
  • Changing and configuring the disk overwriting process software
  • Specifying what disks to overwrite and what process to utilize
  • Executing the disk overwriting process
  • Performing log reviews of the disk overwriting process
  • It includes the inability for anyone to make changes to the history log
  • It provides a tool to overwrite sensitive information on internal and SAN storage
  • It's reasonable, defensible and auditable

It's comprised of the following elements:

  • An end-to-end Disk Drive Overwriting Solution including software and services
  • Training
  • One year of ongoing support

The Solution is an on-site service that eliminates the need and cost of shipping devices to a vendor's data destruction facility