Database management best practices promote the efficient use of data throughout the organization. These practices support the collection and storage of quality data, as well as provide easy access to the data by the appropriate people. With today’s data growing in volume and becoming increasingly complex, the intelligent management of data has become a necessity. […]
Data Privacy Day Is Here – Why Organizations Should Care
Data Privacy Day is celebrated on January 28th each year in the United States, Canada, and 49 other countries in an international effort to raise awareness around data privacy. It is meant to commemorate the 1981 signing of Convention 108, the first international, legally binding treaty surrounding data and privacy protection, but it is more impactful […]
Cyber Storage Resilience: How to Impact and Safeguard Data in 2023
All enterprise data ends up on storage systems, but if an enterprise storage solution does not have the cyber storage resilience to combat a cyberattack, the C-suite and the IT team are leaving the organization severely exposed. This realization is the trigger for what I see as the number one trend in data storage in 2023: making […]
How to Ensure Data Integrity in Your Organization
We are living in an era of data and analytics. It is the time when organizations are consuming, generating, modifying, and exchanging an insane amount of data. Now, failing to keep track of data that is being consumed, generated, modified, exchanged, or deleted within your organization can have a major impact on your business decisions. […]
How Data Privacy Regulations Impact Network Security
Network security uses physical and software security solutions to protect network infrastructure from unauthorized access, misuse, failure, alteration, disruption, or unauthorized disclosure of sensitive data. Network security involves implementing security policies, procedures, and tools to prevent unauthorized persons and programs from accessing a network, connected devices, and network traffic. Network security applies to both public […]
The Rise of Cloud Architecture
The rising popularity of cloud architecture signals a central theme: Global businesses in the coming years will migrate their data center operations fully to the cloud, as it offers some inherent advantages over on-premise set-ups. Business survival in the digital age has become synonymous with migration to the cloud. When businesses look for unlimited data storage and […]
How Encryption Works to Preserve Data Privacy
Cryptography and privacy go hand in hand: Leveraging cryptography to encrypt data for the purposes of preserving privacy isn’t a new concept. In fact, data encryption itself is quite easy. The far greater challenge is data decryption – or, put another way, making sure that encryption doesn’t get in the way of collaboration. After all, data is only […]
Everything You Need to Know About SecOps
Security Operations (SecOps) refers to a joint effort between operations and IT security teams to maintain a company’s safety and minimize potential threats. An increasing gap typically opens between information security and IT operations teams as the former grows in significance within organizations. What You Need to Know About SecOps and More When IT operations […]
The Ongoing Struggle to Keep Sensitive Data Secure: What Lies Ahead in 2023
Ask any data or security professional and chances are they will say that the growing number of global threats combined with the increasing demand by consumers to understand how their data is being used, stored, and accessed has made their job extremely stressful. Running sensitive workloads in the cloud has exacerbated the problem and continues […]
What Are Data Governance Tools?
Data Governance is the practice of creating processes, frameworks, and roles to manage an organization’s data. With today’s data-driven organizations focusing more on generating enormous amounts of data and analyzing them to pivot their business, it has become crucial to manage data the right way. Data Governance tools are the software applications that help you get […]