Security and recovery have taken on a new importance. Risks have increased while the consequences of network downtime and data loss have drastically compounded. As many unfortunate companies can attest, outages that would have been considered negligible a few years ago can now be devastating, due to the increased demands of customers and users. Recent world events have served to highlight the potential security risks of doing business in the modern world.

In response to these demands, many companies are taking a new approach that integrates security management with recovery and high availability services. This mode accounts for data, networks, wireless connections and even physical security of property and personnel. As businesses become increasingly disperse and global, such an approach will become standard for most businesses.

The watchword today is continuity. Companies do not want fast recovery; they want to avoid going down at all, even during potentially devastating virtual or physical attacks. In the modern business world, leaders will be those companies that are able to guarantee that their networks be:

• Online
• All the time
• Everywhere