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This Year, Resolve To Be Ready For Ransomware
By Rangaraaj Rajagopalan It’s a new year. Like many of you, on New Year’s Eve, I gathered with friends and family in the countdown to midnight and joined people in singing, “Should Auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind.” Well, if you want to forget about your old acquaintances, that’s your choice. But […]
Part V: It’s Time To Rethink Your Risk Mitigation Strategy – Governance And Compliance
This is the fifth blog in a five-part series on risk mitigation and how Commvault can help. Access the fourth blog. Warren Buffet once said, “Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.” Flipping that statement around a little, but following the same logic: “Risk is reduced by knowing what you are doing.” That comment […]
Love Songs To Get Your Data In The Mood
By Chris Powell Commvault loves data and this Valentine’s Day is a time to remember. As in any successful relationship, your connection to data has to be nurtured – get to know each other, move it forward, manage through difficulties – and if needed, figure out a way to best recover. All of us should […]
Five Practical Insights From Customers On Data Privacy Day
By Chris Powell It’s Data Privacy Day. The theme of today is “Respecting Privacy, Safeguarding Data and Enabling Trust.” Why is this important? Think about it. We live in a time where people have to worry about Alexa recording your conversations or your toaster spying on you. Worrying about issues of privacy and trust is our reality – and […]
Trust Your Data, And Who Has It
By Matt Tyrer Trust. It is probably one of the most important elements of any relationship. Be it business, romantic, platonic, or between a pilot and his wookie, trust is the cornerstone of these engagements. Data. Probably one of the most important things about you right now, be it your Social Security number, date of […]
Holiday Hacking: Beware The New Year ‘Flash Sales’
By James Canham-Ash It is Jeff Bezos’ online retail mammoth, Amazon, which most people credit with the global export of Black Friday in 2010. Since then, the ONS statistics show weekly Internet purchases during the month of November have almost tripled, and internet sales as a percentage of total retail sales have more than doubled from October […]
Canada Ups The Data Privacy Ante With New Pipeda Rules
By Matt Tyrer If you were not paying that much attention to global compliance and regulatory shifts, you probably missed the Nov. 1 “go-live” date for new rules for data breach handling for companies operating in Canada. To be honest, its whole introduction in May 2018 was done rather quietly, but the new rules are now […]
Data Privacy: Why It’s Important And How It’s Become A Global Issue
By Nigel Tozer Personal data has been in the news all too frequently over the last year. We’ve seen a truly staggering data breach at a credit file company, plus breaches at airlines and even those that should know better – at a vendor that’s actually in the data protection business. This year has also […]
Protect The Data Citadel!
By Lance Shaw Everywhere you turn, you hear about how important data is to your business. No one knows your business as well as you do – and what you do with that data to keep things running smoothly. No matter the industry you are in, information that is quickly available while being properly managed […]
Tying Up Loose Ends: A Case For Endpoint Protection
By Gregg Ogden User mobility introduces threats By now, you most likely understand the threat of ransomware and your endpoints, but it’s not the only thing you should worry about. Every day, employees leave the office with their company laptops and devices in tow – bringing valuable and confidential data out into the world. I’d […]
The State Of Healthcare Cybersecurity In The Wake Of Wannacry
By Jesse Eichhorn It’s been just over a year since the devastating and, regrettably, mostly preventable WannaCry ransomware attack swept the globe. Unprecedented in scale, this attack brought worldwide focus to the ever-present danger posed by cybercriminals and the increasingly sophisticated tools and methods they employ. The UK’s National Health Service was hit particularly hard, where stories emerged […]
Mitigating The Risk Of A Data Breach – Part 2
By Nigel Tozer In the first part of this two-part blog, I looked at the importance of understanding your unstructured data from a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) perspective – what you have, where it is, its content and what its lifecycle should look like. All of this is extremely difficult with unstructured data, due to its very […]
Mitigating The Risk Of A Data Breach – Part 1
By Nigel Tozer In a previous blog, I talked about how data breaches – possibly the biggest fears in a General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulated world – don’t always happen in the data centre. In this blog, I’m taking a look at what you can do if that’s where they do happen, and how to help to reduce the […]
Data Breaches: They Don’t Just Happen In The Data Center
By Nigel Tozer Last year was marked as the year of ransomware and data breaches, with both topics making the headlines in mainstream media. Also making news was the topic of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that, to some degree, links these two topics together. Laptops, not data centers, are often the entry-point into an […]
The Bone-Chilling Reality Of Data Breaches
By Chris Powell Halloween is upon us once again. It’s the time of year when we see scary stuff, things like ghosts, goblins, scary clowns, children on sugar highs running through the streets – and data breaches. This year we have seen more data breaches occur at major companies than ever before. High profile companies […]
Let’s Assume That Your Data Is Going To Get Stolen
By Commvault Last week another massive corporate data breach was announced. One of the largest ever. This time it was Equifax. Although this example might demonstrate the impact of personal data loss, it does highlight how important it is for corporations to protect and secure their data. As data professionals, we have a responsibility for the confidentiality, […]
Cloud Data Management And Security: Another Day, Another Breach
By Matt Tyrer I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: just because you’ve moved to the cloud or embraced it, for some level of XaaS doesn’t mean you can forego all of the best practices you’ve built around your data over the years. You still need to protect, secure and control your data […]