BURLINGTON, Mass., April 17, 2008 - For the past four years, Acronis (www.acronis.com/zh-cn/), 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.
关于 Acronis：
Acronis 是一家全球性的网络安全公司，为托管服务提供商 (MSP)、中小型企业 (SMB) 和企业 IT 部门提供原生集成的网络安全保护、数据保护和终端管理。Acronis 解决方案非常高效，旨在通过最短的停机时间识别、阻止、检测、响应、纠正当下肆虐横行的网络威胁以及实现之后的恢复，从而确保数据完整性和业务连续性。Acronis 凭借其独特的能力，可满足多样化和分布式 IT 环境的需求，为 MSP 提供市场上最全面的安全解决方案。
Acronis 是一家瑞士公司，于 2003 年在新加坡成立，全球设有 15 个办事处，员工遍布 50 多个国家。Acronis Cyber Protect 在 26 个国家/地区提供 150 种语言版本，已被 20,000 个以上的服务提供商用于保护超过 750,000 家企业。请访问 www.acronis.com 了解更多信息。