Apr 29 2008
Save your data by Intrusion Detection
The arrival of information age has fetched lots of worries about the data along with. Anything wrong that may happen to the data, you have worked upon with so long becomes a headache to the users who frequently deal with the networked systems. When you are working on a networked system, it seems very natural that you worry about the ghosts of the network called computer hackers.
Though the companies are spending more and more money on collecting the data from various sources, but on the safety side, security measures apart from anti virus programs, developing firewalls, authentication procedures etc. are not the being adopted. Whereas the present unsafe conditions for data are demanding more attention.
As data is becoming more and more critical for successful running of any organization so issues like preventing the data from unauthorized access should also develop on the other hand. To follow it into real action, intrusion technology is must to be adopted by the organization to save their data.
The intrusion technology refers to the security management system that actively checks the operating system and the network traffic for attacks and security breaks. Other than that it tracks the user policy violations, monitors and analyzes the system and user activities and also assesses system and file integrity.
ID (Intrusion Detection) follows a two step procedure: the first one is host based while the second one is network based. The host based is a pro active approach just like virus scanners which includes inspection of the system’s configuration files to detect inadvisable settings; inspection of the password files to detect inadvisable passwords; and inspection of other system areas to detect policy violations. While the second one which is network based are active components which includes detecting the incoming traffic and comparing the live traffic patterns to the internal lists of attacking procedures.
This is the best technique to save your data from hacking but there are certain basic requirements which should be complied before setting this into action. The first one is to have a data recovery plan in order to tackle upcoming risks in the network which may include network disruption. Security matters, but on the other hand, the factors like ability to come up in each and every condition is equally important, so be 100% secure.
The data recovery plans come in the name of data recovery software in the market which may differ with respect to the operating systems and file systems. These software can recover data in all the possible case of data loss. The data remains on the hard drive despite of deleting it by hackers or any one else, this is the principle behind the working of these software.
Stellar provides the best and a variety of software as per the requirements of the user. The software are available for all the operating systems including Windows, Macintosh, Linux, UNIX and Novell. So whichever operating system you are using it does not matter, the data can be recovered from any of them from any of the hard drive whose partitions/volumes are based on any of the file systems. For example for Windows the software is termed as Stellar Phoenix Windows Recovery software can recover the data from hard drives partitions based on FAT and NTFS file systems.
To ensure the customer about the skills and power of the software, the demo versions of all the software are available on the website which will help you to judge by developing a preview of all the recoverable files.
