Chief is a private company operating since 1986 from its offices in Nes Ziona, Israel. - Chief is one of the first companies in the world dealing with data recovery services in computer information systems. Chief's founder coined the term "Data Recovery" in Hebrew ("Hatzalat Netunim").
- Chief was among the first companies in Israel distributing software products by the "try before you buy" method since 1988.
- Chief is one of the first private companies in Israel providing public computer communication services (BBS -1989).
- Chief represented for the first time in Israel international companies such as McAfee (NAI), Tobit, PGP, QNX and more.
Chief deals with three fields of data protection:
Data Survivability - Development of methodologies for the prevention of data loss. Development of software and hardware solutions for business continuity. Consulting projects in disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC).
Data Recovery - Locating data after information systems mishaps. Computer forensic investigations. Training on technical and legal handling procedures of data loss events at businesses and organizations . Management guidance and supervision of construction of data recovery and forensic computing laboratories.
Data Annihilation - Destruction of magnetic, optic and other data media according to severe international standards. Training on data leakage prevention from dysfunctional media. Development of data destruction capabilities in mobile, embedded and airborne information systems.
Chief provides the following services:
Expert Witness Services for parties in dispute, and submission of forensic reports for the State Attorney, including Computer Crime Investigation Services for the National Fraud Unit.
Training Services in the fields of data survivability, data recovery, data destruction and investigation of computer crimes, for institutions of higher education, computing professions schools, public and private entities, law enforcement agencies, IDF and other organizations.
Consulting services, backing and supervision of projects, in the areas of data survivability, data recovery and data destruction.
Management, Monitoring and Control services for solution developers on data security, technical support, data loss prevention and data recovery
All of Chief's activities leitmotif is centering attention on the person facing the machine, enhancing the ease of operation while specially emphasizing on the reduction of costs at purchase and ongoing maintenance of its solutions.
Securing information survivability at organizations of all kind and size was defined at Chief as based on three main components: - Price - TCO Total Cost of Ownership - Total cost
- Time - RTO Recovery Time Objectives - Processing time
- Quality - RPO Recovery Point Objectives - Validity of output.
"If we succeed in subordinating the technology to user's limitations,
and cease stretching the user to technology's requirements
we will be able to increase the output and reduce the volume of incidents" |