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 公司簡介：
Acronis 是一間全球網路防護公司，專為託管服務合作夥伴 (MSP)、中小型企業 (SMB) 和企業 IT 部門，以原生方式提供整合資安、資料防護和端點管理。Acronis 解決方案效率極高，旨在用來從現代網路威脅中識別、預防、偵測、回應、修復，並復原問題，能在最短的停機時間內，確保資料的完整性，讓業務持續運作。Acronis 透過獨到的能力，為託管服務供應商提供市面上最全方位資安解決方案，以期滿足多元化、分散式 IT 環境的需求。
Acronis 是一間瑞士公司， 2003 年在新加坡正式成立，擁有 15 個全球辦事處，員工來自 50 多個國家。Acronis Cyber Protect 解決方案的服務範圍遍及全球 26 個國家，支援 150 種語言版本，共有 20.000 多間服務供應商使用這項服務，為超過 750,000 間企業提供防護。請造訪以下官網 www.acronis.com，以便深入了解。