Intelligent CISO Issue 11 | Page 12

news Arcserve unveils offsite back up and disaster recovery solution leading data protection provider, Arcserve, has announced its third generation Appliance Series, the first purpose-built appliances designed for disaster recovery and application availability to provide organisations with an all-in-one option for on-appliance and offsite backup and disaster recovery (DR) that can be deployed in under 15 minutes. Powered by award-winning Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) software, the series bundles flash-accelerated deduplicated storage, robust server processing and high-speed networking with highly- redundant hardware and cloud services that enable companies to spin up copies of physical and virtual systems directly on the appliance and in private or public clouds. Companies may also leverage real-time replication with automatic and push-button failover and failback through the appliances to protect mission-critical systems, applications and data. Ensuring application availability is challenging for IT teams, as illustrated by Arcserve’s recent survey which found that only 26% of IT decision-makers are extremely confident in their ability to recover. A survey from IDC also found that 43% of IT decision-makers plan to move to an on- premises private cloud and 37% intend to move to a hosted private cloud over the next 24 months. Arcserve removes the ‘do it yourself’ complexity of orchestrating a hybrid strategy for disaster recovery and application availability. A 12 BEYONDTRUST ANNOUNCES DEFENDPOINT 5.3 WITH POWER RULES eyondTrust, a global leader in privileged access management, has announced Defendpoint 5.3 with Power Rules to help speed decisions on whether to allow an application to run, or allow it to run with admin rights, by automating the integration of third-party intelligence sources. B The first example of Power Rules integration is with ServiceNow to automatically submit an IT ticket to the IT team, so that they can make an informed and expedited decision on the user’s request to run an application, installation, script or task. Power Rules is a business rules engine that enables customers to more easily configure Defendpoint to their unique business requirements as well as integrate Defendpoint into other systems. Whitelisting and blacklisting rules are generally straightforward to develop and enforce, but applications where there is only limited information available can introduce risk into an environment if not properly vetted prior to allowing the application’s use. “This enhancement further demonstrates BeyondTrust leadership in endpoint privilege management,” said Dan DeRosa, Chief Product Officer at BeyondTrust. “Defendpoint 5.3 enables organisations to reduce risk and drive greater ROI from their existing IT investments by leveraging inputs from third-party systems to help inform privilege elevation decisions.” Issue 11 | www.intelligentciso.com