May  2007
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Get a Complimentary Business Continuity Planning Assessment for Your Company!

We are currently offering our clients and prospective clients a complimentary Business Continuity Planning Assessment. We will examine your current business continuity and disaster recovery strategy and help you plan for the future. In return you will receive a customized report detailing opportunities to reduce risk, and to enhance your approach to a secure future. This document can help you create an emergency plan for your business and your department.

The Business Continuity Planning assessment will help you to:

•Stay open for business during a major incident, unforeseen emergency, or natural disaster

•Provide a strategy for maintaining access to and backing up shared resources
Prepare step-by-step guidelines to build a Business Continuity Plan

•Improve your ability to access information during and after a disaster

•Connect users and information no matter the geographic location

•Enhance data security and reliability

Email us at to get more information or to schedule your Business Continuity Planning Assessment

Praxis Computing, Inc
4551 Glencoe Ave, Suite 235
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
Phone (310) 577-7600
Email
http://www.praxis.com/

For more information please visit http://www.praxis.com/

Is Your Business Disaster-Ready?
By Jeff Wuorio
Reprinted with permission from Microsoft Small Business Center

Men in Disaster Cleanup

 Hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural events are disasters in every sense of the word. Lives are lost, property decimated and entire communities disrupted.

For your small business, these events can be just as devastating.

But there's a great deal you can do — both to prepare before a disaster strikes and afterwards, to get your business back on its feet quickly.

Here are 10 tips to better protect your business and, if damage occurs, what you can do to speed your recovery. First, here are tips to help you protect your business:

1. Identify what you need to protect. Many businesses spend far too much time piling up the sandbags without considering what really needs the most protection. Your first step in adequately preparing your business for a disaster is to identify what matters most and take steps to address that. "If you run a food service business, if you lose electricity for 24 hours, you can lose $50,000 to food spoilage," says Donna Childs, co-author of "Contingency Planning and Disaster Recovery: A Small Business Guide." "Look into backup power supplies and make sure any possible damage is covered in your insurance policy."

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How to Stay Compliant with Strong Security
Learn security measures you can take to help your business meet regulations and stay compliant.

Regulatory mandates require compliance. Here are some security measures you can take to help your business meet regulations and stay compliant:

Establish Information Security: Information is an important asset for any business. Many regulations require businesses to show what controls are in place to ensure proper management practices. It's important to establish policies for how information--including customer data, client records, and confidential information--is handled. Protecting confidential information and financial and accounting records is also important. You should consider using password protection for important documents and files, as well as monitoring user access logs, especially if questions arise at a later time regarding any unexpected changes to information or data theft.

Maintain Integrity: Data integrity is an important part of many regulations. One way to maintain integrity involves storing original versions of important documents and data for auditing purposes. You should also maintain an access log so that you will know what changes were made, when, and by whom.

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Tips and Tricks

Mulit-Tiered Approach to Email Security

Taking a holistic, multi-tiered approach to email security is important. Learn how you can protect your business from email threats and spam.

Securing the email environment is an important aspect of a business' IT operations. In fact, a 2005 survey conducted by IDC found that 90% of small and medium-sized businesses rely on email. Email plays a critical role in these business environments – if email goes down, their business stops. Without a multi-tiered approach to email security, problems such as spam, viruses, or inappropriate usage can cause real trouble. Unfortunately, many small and medium sized businesses don't have the luxury of a large IT department or IT group, leaving limited resources and time to deal with IT security issues. According to Symantec's most recent Internet Security Threat Report, 50% of monitored email between July and December 2005 consisted of spam. The report also found that the small business sector was the third most targeted segment during that same time period. This is likely due to the fact that small businesses often lack an adequately secure IT infrastructure and therefore are more vulnerable to attacks. By taking a holistic approach to email security and implementing procedures and measures on all levels of your infrastructure, you can help protect your business from a variety of email threats.

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