BURLINGTON, Mass., April 17, 2008 - For the past four years, Acronis (www.acronis.com/ja-jp/), a provider of affordable, scalable storage management and disaster recovery software, has sponsored the annual National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) and 2008 is no exception. Acronis donated licenses valued at $100,000 of its Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server, Acronis True Image Echo Workstation, Acronis Universal Restore and Acronis Snap Deploy for use in both the national competition being held this week in San Antonio, Texas, as well as for regional competitions held across the country earlier this year.
The Acronis software provides a level playing field for contestants by ensuring all network systems and laptop settings look exactly the same before they begin, as well as providing disaster recovery and migration to virtual machines. Each team inherits a fictional operational business network with email, web sites, data files and computer users. Scoring is based on each team's ability to correct network problems, perform business tasks and defend their networks from hostile cyber attacks. Acronis True Image also provides contestants with the ability to perform their own backups and recover systems.
"This competition is like 'March Madness' with computers everyone is anxiously awaiting the final result and we can't afford any technical disruptions that could hold up a competitor," said Dwayne Williams, Competition Director, National CCDC. "Should a network disruption occur, Acronis True Image backup and disaster recovery software assures us we can get the competition going again within minutes. It's also a huge time saver for our small IT team of three we don't have to manually build out the servers, laptops, and workstation we use in each of these events."
"We've had the opportunity to witness the tremendous talent of these students since the outset of the competition," said Walter Scott, CEO of Acronis. "This isn't just a competition about running a fictional IT department; it's a real-life challenge that brings together the best practices of technology with the ingenuity of tomorrow's best and brightest student IT stars."
The competition is held April 18-20, 2008 in San Antonio, Tex., and consists of 50 college students that advanced to the National CCDC after winning regional competitions in the Southwest, Northeast, West Coast, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast Regions. The teams represent colleges and universities including the Community College of Baltimore County, Texas A&M, University of Louisville, Baker College at Flint, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Mt. San Antonio College.
About the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
The mission of the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition system is to provide institutions with an information assurance or computer security curriculum a controlled, competitive environment to assess their student's depth of understanding and operational competency in managing the challenges inherent in protecting a corporate network infrastructure and business information systems. For additional information, please visit www.nationalccdc.org.
アクロニスは、マネージドサービスプロバイダー（MSP）、中小企業（SMB）、およびエンタープライズ企業のIT部門向けに、ネイティブに統合されたサイバーセキュリティ 、データ保護、およびエンドポイント管理を提供するグローバルなサイバープロテクション企業です。アクロニスの効率性に優れたソリューションは、最小限のダウンタイムで最新のサイバー脅威を特定、防止、検出、対応、修復、復元し、データの完全性とビジネスの継続性を確保するように設計されています。 アクロニスは、多様で分散したIT環境のニーズを満たす独自の機能により、MSP向けに市場で最も包括的なセキュリティソリューションを提供しています。
アクロニスは2003年にシンガポールで設立されたスイス企業です。アクロニスは、世界15か所のオフィスと50カ国以上で拠点を擁しており、Acronis Cyber Protectソリューションは150カ国に26言語で提供され、2万社を超えるサービスプロバイダーで利用されており75万社を超える企業を保護しています詳細はwww.acronis.comをご参照ください。