{"id":1498,"date":"2017-06-09T12:11:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T04:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microdium.net\/public\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2017-06-09T12:11:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T04:11:31","slug":"cibecs-chosen-bomb-safe-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/2017\/06\/09\/cibecs-chosen-bomb-safe-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Cibecs Chosen as \u2018Bomb-Safe\u2019 Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cWe cannot afford to lose any information, we cannot afford to be slowed down or stalled in any way,\u201d &#8211; Marnus Steyn, IT Infrastructure Manager for the NPA (National Prosecuting Authority)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cFact is we needed something that was \u2018bomb safe\u2019 \u2013 Cibecs fit the bill without a shadow of doubt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>BACKGROUND:<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is one of the country\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>THE PROBLEM:<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>WHY THE NPA CHOSE CIBECS:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s quite simple really,\u201d says Steyn. \u201cWhen 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 \u2018bomb safe\u2019 \u2013 Cibecs fit the bill without a shadow of doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of the primary reasons Cibecs was chosen:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Value-proven in Government departments<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Excellent data security and protection<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Simple to use and easy to deploy<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Intuitive reporting and simplified Compliance<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Locally developed solution that out-performed international competitors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe cannot afford to lose any information, we cannot afford to be slowed down or stalled in any way,\u201d &#8211; Marnus Steyn, IT Infrastructure Manager for the NPA (National Prosecuting Authority)\u00a0 \u201cFact is we needed something that was \u2018bomb safe\u2019 \u2013 Cibecs fit the bill without a shadow of doubt.\u201d BACKGROUND: Knowing the risk and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}