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This is a solution designed for the SME market. (We reviewed version 6, but 6.5 is now available.) Instead of simply making incremental backups Retrospect Backup uses backup sets to ensure all data can be recovered. Whereas many solutions only copy the new or changed part of a file, Retrospect keeps a set of all changed data so that if you later find that the version you have been working on has errors in it you can call back the 'best' version. Saved to your hard drive as well as to the server, a user can quickly call up and restore the version that they need to refer back to.

Symantec Ghost Enterprise Edition is an disk imaging solution. It does, however, allow incremental backup of all your client computers' data, providing the ability to restore any networked computer that has crashed. This includes restoration of the operating system and settings, all applications that it was running and all data files.

They won’t win a gold medal, but U.S. companies are beating their counterparts across the pond in one important IT security race. Organisations send millions of documents electronically each day, but only around half manage them securely. Jan Howells reports Security experts have warned enterprises to update anti-virus systems and conduct server backups to protect themselves against the potentially devastating Kama Sutra worm, which is scheduled to activate tomorrow. What do hidden files on CDs, new outlets for malware, an increasingly popular internet scheme, two new Windows vulnerabilities and a destructive worm have in common? They all either happened or were brought to light in the final three months of 2005. Annual audits of your IT assets are no longer enough, finds Janine Milne. After all, if you don’t know what you own, how can you protect it? Nothing new is really going down in information security right now. At least that’s the take of some of SC’s Editorial Advisory Board members. There is no innovation, some say. The industry is stuck in a rut, say others. And it seems they’re not alone. A British security professional has been convicted of gaining unauthorized access to the website set up last December to handle charitable donations for the Asian tsunami. Send your comments, praise or criticisms to scfeedbackus@haymarketmedia.com An east London man accused of hacking into the website co-ordinating relief for victims of the Asian tsunami disaster will have to wait until 17 May before a date is set for his trial. One in five global companies have no formalized business continuity (BC) plan, according to new research. Outsourcing needn’t be a leap of faith. René Millman looks at how to get the best from third-party security It might seem like a cosy, family-run business, but as David Quainton discovers, Next Generation Software has earned a global reputation Send your comments, praise or criticisms to useditor@scmagazine.com. We reserve the right to edit letters. Fire is a bigger threat than viruses, according to a survey of more than 800 IT directors, even though only a third of them backup data remotely. Spammers and phishers hoping to profit from hurricane Katrina have been waging a week-long email campaign. Software quality and FISMA compliance topped a list of concerns expressed by federal CISOs in a recent survey. Chrisan Herrod, the first CSO at the Securities & Exchange Commission, took a battering from the recent GAO report. Here she gives us her side of the story. By John Sterlicchi, with additional reporting by Marcia Savage