Data Protection and Backup using CrashPlan PRO

Discussions of Mac OS security often focus primarily on the aspects of defending a network against external intrusions and vulnerabilities. To complement malware protection, the inclusion of a comprehensive backup solution that ensures data integrity and restoration capabilities is an essential component of a healthy and secure Mac OS environment.

Using the Casper Suite as a comprehensive client management solution enables the automation of reporting and remediation on many of these critical operations, allowing IT administrators to receive active reports based on the ongoing status of the client machines in their network. Using active alerting, administrators are always informed about machines that may fall out of compliance with their established control objectives, allowing them to remediate any issues in a timely manner. While some administrators may prefer to manually remediate issues once alerted, the Casper Suite also has the capability to implement policy-based remediation, ensuring that compliance issues are resolved automatically - and administrators notified about the resolution - as soon as they are discovered.

The tight integration between the Casper Suite and CrashPlan PRO ensures that backup is an integral part of a comprehensive security strategy, addressing the following key principles:

• Security includes data protection and eliminating vulnerabilities
• Security needs to be consistent throughout the management lifecycle and regardless of location
• Security regulation is about demonstrating compliance with established standards
• Meeting security regulations is based on reporting and remediating control objectives to an established standard

The Casper Suite allows IT administrators to quickly deliver and report on the status of their CrashPlan PRO backups, ensuring rapid deployment and compliance throughout the client management lifecyle.

Extension Attributes

Extension Attributes allow the Casper Suite to integrate with products from Code 42 (CrashPlan PRO) and other third-party developers. Once integrated, the Casper Suite allows you to set up Smart Groups and automated Alerting to report information about backup status and data security.

• CrashPlan PRO reporting capabilities

Smart Group Alerting and Reporting

Smart Groups automatically create ongoing reports, ensuring that you are always aware of the backup status of your network, and informing you when remediation is required or has been automatically performed.

• Sample report - CrashPlan PRO backup status
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  Sample email alert - remediation required

Custom Reporting Framework

Custom Smart Groups, Saved Searches and reports can be created to demonstrate ongoing backup status and trigger automated Remediation or Alerting.

• Smart Group Creation - email notification selected
• Sample Saved Searches - actionable reporting

Supported Backup Products

The Casper Suite integrates with and extends the functionality of numerous backup products from a variety of developers. With each product, we have identified the ability of the Casper Suite to integrate and extend the baseline product offering with four additional capabilities: deploy, update, activate and report.

Backup Vendor	Deploy	Activate	Update	Report
CrashPlan Pro	X	X	X	X
Atempo Live Backup	X	X		X
Time Machine	N/A	N/A		X