Unit 5 –Security

LO2. Describe IT security solutions.

6. Data Security Solutions.

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Asset Management

▪In information security, computer security and network

security, an asset is any data, device, or other
component of the environment that supports
information-related activities.
▪Assets generally include :
Hardware-Servers and switches.
Software-Mission critical applications.
Information.
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Asset Management

▪Assets should be protected from unauthorized access,

use, disclosure, alteration, and/or theft, resulting in loss
to the organization.

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Why Asset Management is Important?

▪Asset management allows the organization to keep

track of all their assets. It can tell where the assets are
located, how they are used, and when changes were
made to them.
▪The data from the asset management solution can
ensure that asset recovery will lead to better returns.

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Differential Backup

▪A company operates on a large amount of data that is

constantly growing or changing and does that on a daily
basis, a full backup is simply impossible.
▪The process is time-consuming and usually takes a lot
of storage space. To address this problem, a differential
backup method was invented.

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Differential Backup

▪Differential backup only saves the new data or data that

has changed since the last full backup.
▪It does not make a backup of all the data every single
time.

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Differential Backup
For example, a full backup was performed on Sunday. Next, on Monday a
differential backup job takes a copy of items that were changed or added
since Sunday. On Tuesday, the job takes a copy only of the data changed
since Sunday, etc. The cycle is repeated until the next full backup is
performed.

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Incremental Backup

▪Incremental backup takes a copy of items changed or

added since the last incremental backup job.
▪In other words – First start by taking a full backup.
Then, user backup only what has changed since user’s
last backup.

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Incremental Backup
For example, the full backup was performed, as before, on Sunday. On
Monday, the incremental job kicks in and takes a snapshot of all data that
was changed since Sunday. On Tuesday, the job takes a copy of all
changes since Monday, on Wednesday it backs up everything changes
since Tuesday and so on.

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Backup Comparison
Data That's Backed Up Restore Procedures

Full Backup All data.(Longest) Full backup

only(Fastest)
Differential Backup Data that has changed Full and last
since the last full differential.(Medium)
backup.(Medium)

Incremental Backup Data that has changed Full and incremental(in

since the last full or the correct
incremental order).(Longest)
backup.(Fastest)

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Storage Area Network (SAN)

▪A storage area network (SAN) is a secure high-speed

data transfer network that provides access to
consolidated block-level storage.
▪SANs are particularly helpful in backup and disaster
recovery settings. Within a SAN, data can be
transferred from one storage device to another without
interacting with a server.

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SAN Servers

▪Server SAN offers many of the benefits of traditional

SAN architectures while reducing complexity and costs.
▪Server SAN offers potential benefits to application
design, operation, performance due to the increased
flexibility in how storage is mapped to applications.
▪It removes the complexity of SAN network architectures
and pooled resources deliver extreme scale in both
performance and capacity.

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Lesson Summary

▪Asset Management
▪Differential Backup
▪Incremental Backup
▪Storage Area Network (SAN)

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