[Uriah Toby]

Our IT administrators carry laptops that allow them to ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster. The company’s data security policies prohibit corporate data from residing on non-company’s hardware.

Loss of laptops leads to financial losses. Therefore, we need to create a highly secure disaster recovery and business resumption solution for IT administrators in a highly mobile form factor.

Please suggest a solution.

[john.samons]

Well you obviously want to keep the admin's mobile... So laptop's stay.

It all depends how often they come back to their office, or a central place...

I also travel a lot, between different clients and keep a lot of info in my toolbox/laptop. I've looked into this some time ago, because I was also worried about loss of data. And found some great products that does custom backups. I would suggest looking into this. Personally I'm using Acronis True Image Home to backup to an alternate server. It does Win, Linux etc... But look into it and see what works for you and your company. Did full and now only incremental's - takes me 10 mins or so.

Then it's a matter of habit. Every month or week... make a backup of the data you wish to protect.

Look at the products you already own and see if they can't be used to perform backups.

For each product you would also need to look at licensing etc....

But protection doesn't happen all by itself. You have to make an effort..

[Baldwin Barry]

Truecrypt has a very nice GUI interface for Unix and Windows. Runs on Vista 32/64, XP 32/64, 2003/2008 Server 32/64 and Linux.

Hope this helps.

[Uriah Toby]

Since the laptops contain sensitive data, they are more susceptible to loss or theft. Some un-identified risks associated with, are like:

• The replacement cost of the lost laptop hardware

• A complex and urgent process of determining what data may have been compromised

• Competitive and legal risks of unauthorized use of corporate data by a competitor or third party

The problem is very severe and need some immediate solution, please help.

[Administrator]

Best solution I've eaver found for your situation: EMC Avamar - Backup and recovery with global, source-based data deduplication

[Hall Mil]

You can use Linux-based system into which you install a VPN client and a Remote Desktop Client with a shortcut to a virtual desktop at the disaster recovery site. And then administrators just distribute this image to authorized personnel on encrypted USB memory disks which provides security against misappropriation in the event of loss or theft through remote revocation.

[JenRoxy]

Refer some vendor that uses “Predictive Fetch Technology” containing secure VPN client to users. Users can run VM on any x86 hosts and can thereby establish a secure VPN connection to perform mission-critical IT administrative tasks.

[Uriah Toby]

That is fine, but also suggest any such vendor that is providing such similar offerings. The presence of large number of vendors in the market today makes it difficult to choose the correct one that meets the requirements as well as cost effective too.

[Hall Mil]

Well, you can adopt MokaFive Live PCs with the help of which administrators could isolate sensitive corporate data from any x86 host in the event of disaster, whether a home computer or private computer.

[Hall Mil]

Doing so, administrators can ensure business continuity over secure remote virtual connections via a highly portable, encrypted USB form factor with no risk of corporate data loss or leakage in the event of a disaster.