There are 3 pillars in Infosec which support the security of any system.
They are Prevention, Detection and Recovery. These relate directly to the well established Infosec triad of CIA or Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability. (I will go into more detail later).
Backups are the first pillar – Recovery. Recovery is key to ensuring Availability. It is also the easiest and cheapest to implement, so there is no excuse.
I recently got inspired by one of my instructors to build a better way to host my VMs. He mentioned he built an ESXi cluster using six i7 Mac Minis which sounded totally cool to me. After some initial research, the hardware bug bit me and I decided I gotta try building one.
Then I remembered my other instructor’s advice — Information Security is a small industry and members should contribute in some way to the overall body of knowledge.
The Infosec Noob 