Securing your organisation with open source
While backup and recovery solutions are considered paramount in most organisations, they are possibly one of the most overlooked procedures in company security policies, mainly because they seem to try to achieve the opposite.
Security demands strong encryption and overall policy control over employee and enterprise-wide information, while backup software tries to simplify the data centre recovery process regardless of platform, location and user, anywhere on the network.
This requires a certain level of trust between the machine that is being backed up and the back-up server which has to be verified, and leaves data open to possible vulnerabilities if it’s not correctly configured.
For example, on some popular proprietary enterprise backup software, the default settings allow any user to initiate a backup from any backup client, which can be used for malicious intent.
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