Information Assurance, 360is feature in National Computing Centre Magazine

What is Information Assurance (IA)? Why is it so hard for organisations, large and small, public and private to achieve? When there is a failure of IA why don't the causes get put right? For the answers to these and other questions take a look at the latest issue of the UK National Computing Centre magazine. 360is Principal Consultant discusses Information Assurance and addresses the root cause of most IA failures, AKA "the people problem". The article goes on to detail some practical steps that every organisation can take to improve its IA scorecard and avoid becoming another story on the national news. The 2-page article can be accessed directly as a PDF here.

New "Resources" Page

The amount of 360is articles, whitepapers, software, and interviews has grown to such a degree this year that we have decided to collect them all in one place for easy reference. The 360is Resources section is the place to go for all this information, freely provided by our experienced consultants. Over the coming months look out for new material.

If ever there was a good time to upgrade your CV with training...

IT workers in the city are beginning the annual job of updating their CV early this year, who can blame them. 360is has negotiated a 10% discount from training partner vTrain for students quoting reference 360NOV. vTrain offer short, sharp certified courses for virtualization technologists covering Citrix Xen, VMWare, and Microsoft Hyper-V, based either at your own premises or their dedicated classrooms.

360is Security Seminar, The Insider Threat

360is Principal Consultant, Nick Hutton, is a guest speaker at a breakfast briefing at the Royal Society for the Appreciation of Arts, London on Wednesday October 22nd 2008. The subject for the briefing is "The Insider Threat" and the event will be attended by CSOs and IT managers. Also speaking at the event:

Geoff Harris, President of the Information Systems Security Association in the UK
Damir Rajnovic, PSIRT Incident Manager, Cisco Systems

Presentation start at 9am sharp, find us on the map. If you would like to attend this free seminar, please contact us.

SteelEye Certified on 360is v1624 Appliance

SteelEye's Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer is now certified for mission critical use on the 360is v1624 virtualization hardware appliance. SteelEye joins VMWare and Citrix XenServer as the 3rd software vendor to achieve this certification on the v1624 hardware appliance.

The certification allows SteelEye, Citrix, and VMWare customers to benefit from higher uptime and faster Disaster Recovery through the use of a solid state, diskless, hardware appliance, optimised for running high performance virtual machines at superior densities than current conventional server platforms. The SteelEye software can also be retro-fitted to customers existing XenServer installations and can replicate non-virtualized servers to VMs.

SteelEye Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer is based on the proven SteelEye Data Replication product and runs within the XenServer Console OS (Dom 0) and provides highly optimized replication of XenServer VMs across any LAN or WAN network connection. Any or all VMs replicated in real-time to a target server are then available to be brought into service as needed for business continuity.