Backup Central’s Restore it All

Hosted by Mr. Backup himself, this podcast is dedicated to ensuring that its listeners can always “restore it all” – even when the worst happens. W. Curtis Preston (AKA Mr. Backup) has been specializing in data protection since 1993, and has written four O’Reilly books. Our co-host, Prasanna Malaiyandi, is another industry veteran who specializes in data protection, storage, and privacy. You won’t find a more educational, lively, or entertaining duo on the planet! This podcast covers backup, disaster recovery, archive, disk architecture, disk backups, cloud backups, tape backups, long-term storage, databases, cyber security, privacy, and anything else that interests two storage nerds. Backup Central’s Restore it All (and related blog posts) can be found at https://www.backupcentral.com Today we are joined by security expert and host of the Secure Talk podcast, Mark Shriner, to discuss information security. We talk about it from a personal perspective, as well as for organizations. Mark, Curtis, and Prasanna talk about what are the bare minimum things you should be doing as an individual to protect your personal information and data, both from a security and backup perspective. We then move on to talking about it from a company perspective, and how very important things like MFA (while good) do not solve everything, and then we talk about many other things you could be doing. Then there was the moment that created the title of the podcast, where Prasanna disagreed with Curtis – but not quite. When it comes to information security and data protection (and many things in life), perfect is the enemy of good. Try not to be overwhelmed with all the things you could or should be doing; just pick something and do something. Something is always better than nothing when it comes to these areas. This episode is jam-packed with good information you won’t want to miss. Mentioned in this episode: Free eBook version of O’Reilly’s Modern Data Protection For a limited time, you can get a free ebook copy of my latest O’Reilly book, Modern Data Protection. Just go to druva.com/podcast and download it!