The August edition of the OUCH! newsletter is out. This month we cover backups. While not as sexy or exciting as other security measures, it is one of the most important (and simple) steps you can take to protect your data. Just last week my wife's hard drive crashed. We lost over 45,000 family photos and literally 15 years of our family history. However, what would have been a disaster was not an issue, we simply recovered her computer from Time Machine backups. Please help us spread the word about backups, download and share OUCH! with your family, friends and coworkers. And as always, thanks to our amazing volunteers OUCH! is available in over 20 languages.
About the Author
Lance Spitzner
Director, SANS Security Awareness
Lance Spitzner has over 20 years of security experience in cyber threat research, system defense and awareness and training. He helped pioneer the fields of deception and cyber intelligence with his creation honeynets and founding of the Honeynet Project. In addition, Lance has published three security books, consulted in over 25 countries and helped over 350 organizations build programs to manage their human risk. Lance is a frequent presenter, serial tweeter ( @lspitzner ) and works on numerous community security projects. Before working in information security, Mr. Spitzner served as an armor officer in the Army's Rapid Deployment Force and