Re: Internet presence during a disaster

[Joel Rosenblatt <joel () COLUMBIA EDU>]

We have an agreement with Akamai.  Our main home page and selected documents are uploaded daily and in case of a 
massive network outage, our domain is altered
to point to an Akamai redirect server.

Joel Rosenblatt

Joel Rosenblatt, Senior Security Officer & Windows Specialist, CUIT
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel - You can't spell seCUrITy without CUIT


--On Wednesday, December 14, 2005 2:42 PM -0500 "Fox, Danny D." <dfox2 () su edu> wrote:

> I am reviewing/updating our disaster recovery plan and am looking into
> maintaining an internet presence during a disaster.
>
> The goal is to provide a place for parents and others, not on campus, to
> go to get some information even if we have an internet outage to the
> campus.
>
> I am looking at several options but leaning towards a hosting provider
> like Network Solutions or Yahoo. They each have several plans and you
> can have a dedicated IP Address for your site.
>
> The site would contain "boilerplate" information pages that PR could
> update via dial-up service until we get internet access back and our web
> server on-line. These pages would be straight HTML with minimum
> graphics.
>
> To activate the server we would change the registration for our main web
> server to the IP address of the provider so that anyone going to
> www.su.edu would be directed to the off site server.
>
> What I would like to know is what others are doing to maintain an
> internet presence during a disaster?
>
>
>
> Danny Fox
> Information Security Officer
> Shenandoah University
>
>
>
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Joel Rosenblatt, Senior Security Officer & Windows Specialist, CUIT
Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
http://www.columbia.edu/~joel - You can't spell seCUrITy without CUIT