“We cannot afford to lose any information, we cannot afford to be slowed down or stalled in any way,” – Marnus Steyn, IT Infrastructure Manager for the NPA (National Prosecuting Authority)
“Fact is we needed something that was ‘bomb safe’ – Cibecs fit the bill without a shadow of doubt.”
BACKGROUND:
Knowing the risk and impact data loss can have on its investigations, the National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa insists on end-point user data protection that is first in class South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is one of the country’s leading investigative institutions, specializing in dealing with the most sensitive and high-profile of criminal cases. As such the information stored on prosecutors and investigators laptop and desktop computers are of the utmost importance to the efficient functioning of the NPA.
Due to the nature of their work, with investigators needing to travel all over the country, and the world, in performing their tasks, vast amounts of critical data is stored on laptops, and is therefore at risk.
THE PROBLEM:
The NPA urgently needed a reliable solution to not only backup their data, but also encrypt their operations-sensitive information in the process. For both its desktop and laptop computers the institution needed to find a data backup and recovery solution that would be simple to use, but also effective. High importance was placed on finding a product that would do what it says, without being overly complicated. The solution would also need to be at the absolute pinnacle of data security, and completely protect the NPA data from any access, theft and loss.
WHY THE NPA CHOSE CIBECS:
“It’s quite simple really,” says Steyn. “When comparing Cibecs to other (local and international) players in the backup and recovery space we found it easy to use when performing backups and data restores. The product performed exactly as it promised it would, which is a rarity in terms of software solutions. Fact is we needed something that was ‘bomb safe’ – Cibecs fit the bill without a shadow of doubt.”
Some of the primary reasons Cibecs was chosen:
• Value-proven in Government departments
• Excellent data security and protection
• Simple to use and easy to deploy
• Intuitive reporting and simplified Compliance
• Locally developed solution that out-performed international competitors
