BURLINGTON, Mass., April 17, 2008 - For the past four years, Commwave (www.acronis.com/ko-kr/), 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.
아크로니스 소개:
아크로니스는 관리형 서비스 제공업체(MSP), 중소기업(SMB) 및 기업 IT 부서에게 기본적으로 통합된 사이버 보안, 데이터 보호 및 엔드포인트 관리 기능을 제공하는 글로벌 사이버 보안 회사입니다. 아크로니스 솔루션은 매우 효율적이며 최신 사이버 위협을 식별, 예방, 탐지, 대응, 해결 및 복구하여 다운타임을 최소화하도록 설계되어 데이터 무결성과 비즈니스 연속성을 보장합니다. 아크로니스는 다양하고 분산된 IT 환경의 요구 사항을 충족할 수 있는 고유한 기술을 바탕으로 MSP에 시장에서 가장 종합적인 보안 솔루션을 제공합니다.
2003년 싱가포르에서 설립된 스위스 회사인 아크로니스는 전 세계에 15개의 지사를 두고 있으며 50개 이상의 국가에 직원을 두고 있습니다. Acronis Cyber Protect는 150개국에서 26가지 언어로 제공되며 20,000개 이상의 서비스 제공업체가 750,000개 이상의 비즈니스를 보호하는 데 사용하고 있습니다. www.acronis.com에서 자세히 알아보세요.