Sounds harsh – no one wants a backup. But they don’t. They want what a backup gets them, the ability to restore in a crisis (it’s called ‘disaster recovery‘ for a reason). Some will argue, they need backups to do that, and while true, it is helpful to consider the “job companies hire backups for” …
When it comes to network security, we often think about vulnerabilities or exploits. About internal threats, and password compromises. We don’t often think about automation. Anything that can have a negative impact on network resiliency and its return to full operation after an ‘event’ relates to security. Automation helps keep your network humming along at …
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The Enterprisers Project, a site providing content for CIOs and IT leaders, included Josh Stephen’s, BackBox CTO, thoughts in an article published today. Titled ‘4 ways for CIOs to strike a balance between operation and innovation‘ it takes points of view from four industry leaders, including Josh. In many ways – time in the day, …
Network automation is one of those funny things… it can be anything, and so often is nothing (out-of-the box). People want to solve problems. At BackBox we take the approach of building the best possible network automation platform while also delivering easy-to-deploy solutions to very specific problems like ensuring reliable backups or OS updates. Once …
This was originally published by the Tao of Backup in 1997, and looks like it hasn’t been updated in over 13.5 years (judging by the Backup Wailing Wall). It’s also really focused on data, and I thought it would be useful to write a version focused on network and security devices (while also making sure …
Our CTO, Josh Stephens, was quoted in Enterprise Security Tech with thoughts about the recent Microsoft network outage. One of my favorite news-taglines from the outage came from Richi Jennings at DevOps.com: Analysis: It’s DNS. It’s always DNS (unless it’s BGP) Without more details about what happened, which Microsoft has promised to share, it’s hard …
We’ve become numb to the costs of cybersecurity breaches. Almost every week there is a new breach reported in the news, it’s beginning to feel impossible to stop them. Something important is changing that you must plan for… Insurance companies that help pick up the pieces are forming an opinion about how businesses should be …
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What does it mean to have a good backup? A reliable backup? Would any vendor say their backup is ‘bad’? Or ‘unreliable’?! There must be more to it. And there is. The Insight The problem with backups is that the pain driving their necessity is not felt at the time of doing the work. Go …