We live in a data-driven economy, but what lies beneath the data is hidden gold. Metadata, or data that describes data, delivers many benefits for storage and IT managers. Yet metadata is complex, vast, and distributed across hybrid cloud infrastructure. Understanding and strategically managing metadata as part of your overall data storage strategy has become central […]
AI Voice Assistants Are Coming – But First We Must Secure Them
The next generation of voice assistants is coming. Hot on the heels of ChatGPT, generative AI is poised to take over the sector. This tech understands natural language, learns from vast amounts of data, and generates human-like responses. Applying these capabilities to the likes of Siri and Alexa will result in more efficient and complex interactions. Unlike […]
How Can Digital-Native Companies Overcome Data Security Challenges?
With digitization continuing to impact business enterprises and make them more competitive, there is a looming specter of data security challenges as well. Executives cutting across domains are faced with the challenging job of protecting the data of their respective organizations. However, this needs to be done without degrading their ability to innovate and add value from […]
Developing a Cloud Migration Strategy
Cloud migration involves moving an organization’s data, applications, digital services, databases, and other IT resources to the cloud environment. A cloud migration strategy contains the blueprint for making this move happen. According to Gartner, more than 45% of IT spending will shift from traditional data-processing platforms to the cloud by 2024. This observation reaffirms the cloud platform’s popularity as […]
Is Cyber Insurance a Must-Have?
The frequency and severity of cyberattacks have dramatically increased in recent years, leaving businesses and individuals vulnerable to financial loss and reputational damage. As technology continues to advance, and with the ever-present threat of cyberattacks, there is a growing need for cyber insurance. Cybersecurity insurance was created in the late 1990s when organizations began moving their […]
The Looming Threat of Orphaned Data: How Abandoned Files Could Destroy Your Business
Employees are leaving their jobs in record numbers – both voluntarily and involuntarily. The amount of employee turnover that occurs each year varies depending on the industry and country. However, layoffs have seemingly become a common occurrence in the business world, with the tech industry being hit particularly hard of late. Layoffs.fyi, a website that […]
What Is Sensitive Data Exposure and How Can It Be Avoided?
Organizations nowadays process tons of consumer data every day. This data ranges from the standard – names, email addresses, etc. – to personally identifiable information, like social security numbers and banking credentials. And while this type of data is an asset, especially for businesses, accidentally revealing it and causing sensitive data exposure can be very […]
What’s Driving the Increase in Cyberattacks?
According to my company’s State of the SIEM survey, 97% of security professionals report being confident in their ability to stop adversaries and cyberattacks. Yet, 83% of organizations suffered more than one data breach last year. It’s hard to be a security professional and not look at the glass half-empty. What’s causing the disconnect? Our survey has some of the […]
From VPN to SDP – Four Reasons to Switch Now
There once was a time when the virtual private network (VPN) was the hot new technology. In its day, VPN was nothing short of amazing – an impenetrable innovation in IT security. But that time was in the mid-nineties – 1996 to be exact – when it was created. No one can call this the […]
5-Step Checklist for SaaS Businesses to Enhance Cloud Security
Most SaaS businesses leverage the cloud to manage and store their data, applications, and workloads. With appropriate cloud security measures, SaaS businesses can ensure device and user authentication, resource and data access control, and privacy. This can help protect cloud-based infrastructure from malware, unauthorized access, and cyberattacks. What’s shocking is, a recent survey by Oracle revealed that 92% of […]