BURLINGTON, Mass., April 17, 2008 - For the past four years, Acronis (www.acronis.com/zh-tw/), 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.
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。