Data breaches occur when sensitive information, such as financial data, personal identities, or confidential business information, is accessed and potentially disclosed to unauthorized parties. This can happen due to various reasons such as hacking, malware, human error, or weak security measures. The consequences of a data breach can be significant and far-reaching, including: Common Types […]
Using Emerging and Legacy Tech Together Raises Data Security Complexity
The World Economic Forum has released its Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2023 report, and it highlights how things have changed when it comes to data security and cybersecurity in general. It cites the inevitability of more cyber laws and regulations in view of more aggressive and sophisticated attacks, the need to regulate third parties that process data, […]
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. […]
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 […]
Data Protection: An Essential Element of Any Digital Transformation Strategy
According to an annual cybersecurity report by Cisco, cyber-attacks are more advanced than ever before. Phishing, ransomware, social engineering, and trojans are the most active threats. Globally, the average total cost of a data breach is around $4.35 million, which increased by 2.6% compared to 2021, according to IBM’s most recent Cost of a Data Breach […]
Big Data, Big Responsibility
By now, we’ve probably all heard that “every company is a tech company” after the evolution of where and how we work in the previous few years. However, if every company is a tech company, what has become of what we traditionally think of as technology companies? Just as every company has become reliant on technology […]
What Jeopardizes Your Private Data the Most?
Breached, leaked, or exposed private data is a cause of worry for any individual or organization. It opens the door for further criminal activity such as identity theft and can damage the company’s finances and reputation. To prevent the aftermath of compromised information, businesses have been investing more than ever in building their cybersecurity architecture to strengthen […]
Four Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Cloud Data Security Tool
The cloud was the driving force behind much of the digital transformation sparked by COVID-19. Public cloud applications and services allowed enterprises to support employees as they shifted to a fully remote workforce, and now many major components of day-to-day business are on the cloud. In fact, the cloud market is projected to amount to $832.1 billion […]
Four Ways Cyber Asset Management Can Build Recession Resilience
Skyrocketing inflation and recession fears currently roiling the economy tend to make the headlines in stark personal terms; we hear about the rising costs for consumers at the gas pump, at the grocery store, at restaurants, and for airline tickets. Just as significant, but much more complex, are the impacts on enterprises as they struggle […]