Acronis Donates $25,000 In Server Software To University Of Texas At San Antonio Contest
April 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
1517 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融合資料保護和資訊安全 ，提供整合的自動化資安防護，可解決現代數位世界所面臨的安全、易用性、隱私、真實性和安全性 (SAPAS) 挑戰。Acronis 的靈活部署模型符合服務供應商與 IT 專業人員的需求，藉由創新的新世代防毒、備份 、災難復原以及 AI 提供的端點防護管理解決方案，為資料、應用程式和系統提供優質的網路防護。依靠先進的機器智慧和區塊鏈型資料驗證技術提供支援的進階防惡意軟體，Acronis 可在任何環境 (從雲端、混合到地端部署) 提供防護，且經濟實惠。
Acronis 是一家瑞士公司，創立於新加坡。Acronis 擁有二十年的創新經驗，在 45 個據點擁有超過 1,800+ 名員工。Acronis Cyber Protect 解決方案的服務範圍遍及全球超過 150 個國家/地區，支援 26 種語言，由 20,000+ 個服務供應商使用，以保護超過 750,000 家企業。