When you’re deploying DLP, strategy comes first
Data loss prevention (DLP) is a powerful security tool. So powerful that it’s tempting to try a broad, pervasive implementation. But this can backfire into a flood of false alerts — unless you first...
View ArticleWhat DLP can do: Policing your sensitive data
The data discovery and identification aspect of data loss prevention (DLP) capability is just the beginning. Once you know what data you have and where it lives, you’re finally in a position to...
View ArticleData Center Shopping: Dig Deeper
Data center discussions inevitably come around to the issue of standards. And while I agree that standards, like the recently released SSAE 16, are good to consider when you’re data center shopping,...
View ArticleEssentials to business disaster preparedness — #1: Back up your data and know...
I can hear it now: A chorus of “Duh!” And yes, “back up your data” is pretty obvious. But some of the details that go into it are not. So here they are: Know about your data. (as well as those...
View ArticleEssentials to business disaster preparedness — #2: Use data loss prevention...
If you don’t know much about your data, backing it up can be a challenge. Important data can be missed if it’s been squirreled away in some obscure location. And corrupted and/or hacked data can be...
View ArticleThe importance of IT security vigilance
Last September 18th, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security warned that nation’s population not to use Internet Explorer because of an IE security flaw “is already being used for targeted...
View ArticleWhat’s Happening to the IT Department?
Where once IT departments were the sole source when it came to technology implementation, today technology is finding its way into corporate America through nearly every department. Marketing folks may...
View ArticleThe Dangers Confronting Data in Motion
Last time, I looked at some of the security issues related to employee mobility, which focused mainly on devices like smartphones and tablets and how people use them. But smartphones and tablets aren’t...
View ArticleIt’s Easy to Avoid Data Room Disaster
I heard a story recently about the theft of servers from a data room. The company had locks on all outside doors, but had neglected to install a lock on the server room door. The thieves would probably...
View ArticleCEOs in the Crosshairs
When it comes to security breaches, CEOs stand in the crosshairs. More than their IT staffs, it’s a CEO who’ll take heat for a breach that exposes customer data or endangers relationships with business...
View ArticleLook What’s Really Causing IT Disasters
According to one expert, U.S. enterprises lose $1.2 trillion each year from IT failures. Although this figure gets debated, everyone agrees it’s a whole lot of money. These losses — and the downtime...
View ArticleWhen It Comes to Security, Know Thyself
“If you don’t understand the risks, you don’t understand the costs,” security guru Bruce Schneier advised during a TED talk. He was discussing security in the abstract — but it got me thinking about IT...
View ArticleThe IT Security Arms Race: How Well Are You Keeping Up?
Today’s digitization of just about everything – especially a whole lot of business data – means the technologies your organization depends on may be changing more quickly than you think. Of course,...
View ArticleData security: 6 steps to take right now
Ensuring data security can be tough, since attacks and breaches and plain old mistakes have so many sources. Often the real cause of a technology risk is deeply buried. Consider this example: Payment...
View ArticleLeverage the power of data gravity with a network services assist
As you migrate more and more of your data to cloud environments, you’ve probably noticed a couple of things: 1 Data gravity It’s not your imagination: as you’ve embraced cloud computing, the data still...
View ArticleGot DRaaS and/or managed service DR? Pay attention to BC/DR plan updating anyway
Disaster Recovery as a Service is fast becoming a business essential as it’s implemented in more and more enterprise multi-site resilience strategies. Hardly surprising, since DRaaS simplifies recovery...
View Article2017 Was the Most Expensive Disaster Year Ever
2017 hit cities across our country with some of the most extreme – and expensive – natural disasters ever seen. There were at least 15 weather events this year costing at least a billion dollars each....
View ArticleThe Biggest Threat Facing Your Data in 2018
The intangibility of cloud storage makes it easy to leave the proverbial front door unlocked. This is exactly what happened when a developer at Uber inadvertently included the startup’s Amazon Web...
View Article6 ways Europe’s new data protection rules can impact US businesses — Part 2
In my last post, I listed two of the six ways the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can affect even non-EU enterprises—by … Reaching beyond the EU; and Redefining personal and...
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