Blog Posts Tagged with "Storage"
Do you have a PERSONAL disaster recovery plan?
November 01, 2012 Added by:Allan Pratt, MBA
Most companies, especially publicly-held companies with complex regulations to follow, have disaster recovery plans. They include instructions for data back-up, storage, and recovery as well as employee training. However, with all this talk about corporate planning, do you have a PERSONAL disaster recovery plan?
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Dropbox Security Issues: IT Has Only Itself to Blame
August 06, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
For Dropbox to admit that they were investigating the issue internally is a tacit admission that it is an internal issue rather than anything external. Yes Dropbox has issues, and yes those issues would appear to be indicative of something broader – but that doesn’t call into question the entire concept of cloud...
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Insecure Cryptographic Storage Explained
July 12, 2012 Added by:Fergal Glynn
The impact of Insecure Cryptographic Storage flaws when exploited is usually quite high due to the fact that the information that is usually encrypted are important things like personally identifiable information, trade secrets, healthcare records, personal information and credit card numbers...
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The Patchwork Cloud: Breaking Laws You Didn't Know Applied
July 11, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
The challenges of dealing with a completely connected, ubiquitously computable world are that data can be moved, stored, and used anywhere and that the infrastructure that moves that data around is less and less under your control. That's an interesting thing for information security professionals...
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Big Data Analytics: On Structured and Unstructured
July 08, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
Analysis of unstructured data is the hot topic these days – organizations are lured by the promise of deriving huge incremental value by gaining insights from crunching vast pools of seemingly random numbers to determine patterns and trends. It’s not a huge surprise that structured data analytics gets forgotten...
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How to Save Your Photos from a BYOD Security Policy
June 24, 2012 Added by:Brent Huston
One of the more common rules is to enable the remote wipe and lock feature. This means that if your device was ever stolen or compromised, the IT department can remotely lock the device and then wipe any data from it. And yes, that would include all of your photos as well as other items...
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Making Sense of Data Storage in the Cloud
June 11, 2012 Added by:Theresa Payton
How should you protect your precious digital files? The good news is there are many services to choose from. Here is just a short list to review so you can pick what is best for you based on storage options, privacy and security features, and budget...
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Cloud Services Strategy: Security First - Growth Second
March 30, 2012 Added by:Richard Stiennon
Cisco, Juniper, Oracle, and Microsoft might have security initiatives and even good sales of security products. But security takes a back seat to functionality too often. Why are there no secure switches? Secure apps for Windows? Or secure databases?
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Seven Problems with Cell Phone Forensics
March 26, 2012 Added by:Bozidar Spirovski
Manufactures don’t always know how to retrieve data stored in new phones, so how do investigators do it? Staying up-to-date is challenging but not impossible. As criminals come up with new ways to abuse them, strangely enough, this can be beneficial for forensics...
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Transborder Data Flows at Risk
March 22, 2012 Added by:David Navetta
The proliferation of comprehensive data privacy laws, more or less on the European model, increasingly requires US-based multinationals and online companies to adapt to strict requirements for dealing with individuals in other countries...
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On Security, Legislation and Cloud Vendors
March 16, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
Ever since the MegaUpload case, when innocent customers of an admittedly generally dodgy cloud service lost their data after a global take-down notice, it has concerned me that more mainstream vendors might have an impending issue they need to think about...
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Twelve Security Best Practices for USB Drives
March 06, 2012 Added by:Kelly Colgan
Portable and mobile storage devices are significant players in most corporate offices. Ensuring proper protection with a best practices policy and strict enforcement offers significant risk reduction—and can prevent long nights on data breach investigations...
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A Checklist for a Move to the Cloud
February 26, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
There’s s flip side to technology democratization in that the high level of accessibility also means that it’s very easy for organizations to set themselves up as vendors – sometimes without the necessary level of professionalism that would be optimal...
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Choosing Secure Data Storage - A Difficult Dance
February 20, 2012 Added by:Bozidar Spirovski
There are multiple pros and cons across our storage systems parameters, but at first glance, the enterprise storage systems have the upper hand. Bear in mind though, such systems always come with exorbitant pricing, especially on any upgrades after the initial purchase...
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Data at Rest: Dormant But Dangerous
February 10, 2012 Added by:Simon Heron
Data is considered to be either ‘at rest’, ‘in transit’ or ‘in use.’ When putting security measures in place, it is important to consider all three states and address risks associated with each. This article examines data at rest and proposes strategies to minimize dangers...
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Department of Justice Misdirection on Cloud Computing
February 08, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The DOJ has been unequivocal that cloud users have no right to challenge government access to "non-content" information held by Cloud systems - their location, their contacts, their communications patterns and more. Lawyers call this the "third party problem"...
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