Volume 1, Issue 9
September 2005


30 Years of Excellence

N.O.R.A.D.'s News Brief
Mid-September is Peak Hurricane Season!

Hurricane activity peaks September 10th, according to NOAA. We are not out of the woods yet. Just as Hurricane Katrina came out of the Caribbean so quickly with such unbelievable destructive force, another hurricane can hit us at any time over the next 10 weeks!

We are hearing reports that tape backups and hard drives are ruined because of physical destruction, loss or flooding.

Some companies, such as Ontrack, may be able to

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restore tapes and hard drives, but a backup of your critical data stored offsite in a Category 5 facility is your best disaster recovery plan.

SecureTrek Online Backup Service can backup your critical data daily in one of the most secure and safe buildings anywhere in the U.S.

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Mid-September is Peak Hurricane Season!

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Hold onto Your Laptops!

Laptops have be-come one of the most highly prized items to steal. Not only are thieves able to sell laptops for a good price, they often find data that they can sell to iden-tity thieves for even more money! Here are some recent articles that may well be eye openers!

“Stolen University of Cal-ifornia, Berkeley Laptop Exposes Personal Data of Nearly 100,000." ABC News, March 28, 05.

Two computers containing 185,000 patients records of San Jose Medical Group stolen. ZDNet News, April 8, 05.

What can you do?
1. Consider encryp-ting your critical data.
2. Take extra pre-cautions to keep your laptop in sight.
3. Backup your data using SecureTrek Service.
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