Click to learn more about author George Kobakhidze. For those in charge of their company’s cybersecurity efforts, they may stay up at night thinking, “Who is clicking on the most links in emails? Who opens the most phishing emails? Who uses simple passwords?” Amidst the best efforts to educate and build in best data practices […]
Crafting Great Business Definitions: Getting at the Essence of Things
Click to learn more about author Ronald G. Ross. In this first post of a four-part series about crafting great business definitions, I explain what a definition should and should not cover. The key is getting to the essence of the concept you want to define How important can it be to define concepts well? Consider […]
The Fundamentals of Data Anonymization and Protection
Click to learn more about author David Balaban. Data anonymization is a process aimed at eliminating personally identifiable clues so that it’s impracticable, or at least very challenging, to attribute this information to a specific individual. In this regard, the terms “de-identification” and “anonymization” denote virtually the same concept and may be used interchangeably. The […]
Eight Key Steps to Comply with CCPA: A 2020 Checklist
Click here to learn more about Anas Baig. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has gone into effect, and organizations are looking for ways to comply with this regulation as efficiently and cost-effectively possible. Several frameworks can be used to help narrow down the route you should take when trying to comply with the CCPA. […]
The Role of the DBA: Ensuring Business Continuity from a Remote Setting
Click to learn more about author John Pocknell. With global organizations shifting to a work from home (WFH) environment due to the current global crisis, many have found themselves putting IT processes in place to ensure business continuity. With thousands of remote employees working across different networks, database administrators (DBAs) particularly have been put on […]
Why You Should Go Beyond Checkbox PCI Compliance
Click to learn more about author Rob Chapman. One of the first books I ever read that wasn’t a school assignment was The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. My father gave it to me shortly after he finished it, and it was the first real “grown-up” book I ever read. There […]
Ransomware Authors Go Beyond Malicious Encryption
Click to learn more about author David Balaban. The scourge of ransomware is mutating into a phenomenon with a two-pronged extortion plan at its core. Schemes used to rely solely on encryption making a victim’s data inaccessible, but a game-changing tweak in the “classic” attack chain took place in late 2019. A number of ransomware […]
Roll Call: Visual Graph Data Models Today
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Preamble: Five years ago, I wrote a book about a new approach to Data Modeling — one that “turns the inside out.” It discussed visual Graph Data Modeling. For well over 30 years, relational modeling and normalization were the name of the game. One could ask that […]
How to Protect Endpoints for Remote Employees
Click to learn more about author JG Heithcock. The worldwide pandemic is forcing employees to work from home in a distributed environment for businesses across the world. According to an April 2020 survey of 25,000 U.S. workers, over half of the workforce in the United States is now working remotely. These are unprecedented times, and […]
A Gentle Introduction to Azure File Storage
Click here to learn more about Gilad David Maayan. Microsoft Azure is ranked amongst the top cloud computing vendors, competing for market share with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Azure is known for its enterprise-level cloud services, many of which provide features for easy integration, implementation, and management of hybrid architectures. […]