April 11, 2005
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Acronis cosponsors the first Southwest Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Comptition

Acronis Donates $25,000 In Server Software To University Of Texas At San Antonio Contest

Acronis cosponsors the first Southwest Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Comptition. Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance EducationApril 11, 2005, South San Francisco, CA, and San Antonio, TX — Acronis, Inc., the technological leader in storage management software, announced that it will co-sponsor the first Southwest Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition April 15–17 at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).

Acronis is donating 15 licenses for its Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows and 15 licenses of Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Linux, and 5 licenses of Acronis True Image Corporate Workstation 8.0 for Windows for the teams. The value of the donation is nearly $25,000. Other corporate sponsors include Cisco Systems, Northrup Grumman, Harcourt and the Alamo Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association.

The competition features 40 participants representing The University of Texas at San Antonio, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, University of North Texas and Del Mar College. The eight-member teams will focus on the operational aspect of managing and protecting an existing network infrastructure.

Each team will inherit a fictional operational business network with email, web sites, data files and computer users. Scoring will be based on each team's ability to correct network problems, perform business tasks and defend their networks from hostile cyber attacks.

"Acronis is proud to be co-sponsoring such an important event," said Max Tsypliaev, CEO of Acronis. "Tomorrow's IT leaders need to be well versed in the challenges of running an enterprise network, and a competitions such as this helps identify not only networking's best practices, but also allows the students explore new best practices."

"These are among the best and the brightest up-and-coming network administrators in Texas," added Stephen Lawton, Acronis' director of marketing. "While Acronis is expert at disaster recovery, these are the administrators who must be expert at disaster prevention."

"San Antonio has a rich history of cyber security operations and research, and with the presence of the Air Force's Computer Emergency Response Team and Information Warfare Center, UTSA is a logical location to host a cyber competition," said Greg White, UTSA Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS) interim director. "This particular competition features security, but emphasizes maintaining the operational use of a network."


About the University of Texas at San Antonio

UTSA is the first Texas university and one of 59 in the nation with the "Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education" designation by the National Security Agency (NSA). The designation means UTSA's curriculum and faculty meet or exceed NSA standards to teach information-assurance security and makes the university eligible to apply for grants from NSA and the National Science Foundation. CIAS is part of UTSA's newly created Institute for the Protection of American Communities, an institute established to provide technical expertise and solutions to security challenges faced by communities. For more information, contact Kris Rodriguez, public relations specialist, at krodriguez@utsa.edu.




Acronis 公司簡介:

Acronis 是一間全球網路防護公司,專為託管服務合作夥伴 (MSP)、中小型企業 (SMB) 和企業 IT 部門,以原生方式提供整合資安、資料防護和端點管理。Acronis 解決方案效率極高,旨在用來從現代網路威脅中識別、預防、偵測、回應、修復,並復原問題,能在最短的停機時間內,確保資料的完整性,讓業務持續運作。Acronis 透過獨到的能力,為託管服務供應商提供市面上最全方位資安解決方案,以期滿足多元化、分散式 IT 環境的需求。

Acronis 是一間瑞士公司, 2003 年在新加坡正式成立,擁有 15 個全球辦事處,員工來自 50 多個國家。Acronis Cyber Protect 解決方案的服務範圍遍及全球 26 個國家,支援 150 種語言版本,共有 20,000 多間服務供應商使用這項服務,為超過 750,000 間企業提供防護。請造訪以下官網 www.acronis.com,以便深入了解。
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