Click to learn more about author Anne Hardy. Organizations that want to secure applications are challenged by understaffed security teams and a lack of security awareness on the part of developers, reports Forrester. When developers do understand the importance of security and how to incorporate it into their work, they are security champions — often […]
Data Analytics Tech Delivers on Promise to Reduce Cyber and Business Risk
Click to learn more about author Trevor Daughney. The importance businesses attach to data analytics has driven the growth of a successful niche of the technology industry. The potential of the sector is now increasingly being realized in stock market value, evidenced by the recent IPOs of Palantir and Sumo Logic. The Palantir IPO represents […]
Emerging Cloud Computing Technologies
It has taken many years for cloud computing technologies to mature and become mainstream in global businesses. Now the skeptics have stopped questioning the long-range sustainability of the cloud ecosystem, but it remains to be seen how allied technologies like edge, serverless, IoT, AI, and big data can together fulfill enterprise business needs. Many cloud […]
Data Anonymization: Use Personal Data AND Respect Privacy
Click to learn more about author Stephan Kessler. Today’s information technology allows many organizations to generate, integrate, store, and analyze data of unprecedented size and complexity. In many cases, this is personal data, and its usage is restricted according to privacy laws and regulations. In 2018, the European Union introduced the General Data Protection Regulation […]
How Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Is Evolving
Click to learn more about author Beth Shulkin. Personally identifiable information (PII) is any data used to identify an individual, such as social security number, phone number, or physical address. For years, merchants, banks, government agencies, and countless other organizations have relied on PII to service their customers, for processing transactions of online shoppers, approving […]
The False Technology Choice Dichotomy
Click to learn more about author David Segleau. I recently spent more than a few hours trying to build and configure a DIY solution in the cloud for ad-hoc analytical queries. The exact pieces of software are not that important because all of the build-it-yourself-better-and-cheaper solutions start to look the same after a while. After […]
What Is Augmented Data Preparation and Why Is It Important?
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. The average business user does not have a full grasp of advanced data discovery or data preparation methods, and most organizations would not want business users to waste precious time trying to navigate the complexities of a manual data preparation process. If a business provides a solid foundation for self-serve business intelligence […]
So You Want to Be a Data Protection Officer?
The role of Data Protection Officer (DPO) is a security position and is a requirement per the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Brazil’s Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD). It is reasonable to expect the United States will develop its own version of the GDPR within the next few years. Many enterprises doing […]
COVID-19 and the Security of Medical IoT Devices
Click here to learn more about author Harsh Arora. The global pandemic has affected the digital space in a drastic way. There were times when people used to be afraid when they were told to be digital, and now, we don’t have much of a choice. The current crisis has prompted the medical sector to […]
On-Premises/Cloud Hybrid for SQL Server Data Availability
Click to learn more about author Dave Bermingham. Today, organizations are buying cloud infrastructure services rather than on-premises hardware and software. For those companies running mission-critical SQL server environments, cloud vendors promise geographically distributed cloud data centers that make it easy to configure SQL server instances for high availability (HA) and/or disaster recovery (DR). This […]