by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Preempt, a leader in adaptive threat prevention that helps enterprises eliminate security breaches and internal threats, today announced the expansion of its product suite with the introduction of the Preempt Platform. According to Verizon’s 2017 DBIR, 25 percent of breaches involved internal actors and 81 percent of […]
Why Cyber Security and Data Science Have Similar Problems
Click to learn more about author David Schlesinger. To begin with, and I say this being of a certain age myself, most top managers are older people. Being older, many operated during a large part of their business career in a non-computer world. The concept of actually using computer data for business advantage only began recently, […]
Majority of U.S. Businesses at Risk Due to Sub-Par Data Protection Practices
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “An independent survey of U.S. IT decision makers (ITDMs) conducted by StorageCraft ®, a leading data management and protection company, reveals that many organizations lack confidence in their current data recovery implementation. The survey also uncovered an alarming number of businesses unable to increase the frequency of […]
Barracuda Announces New Cloud Generation Firewall Capabilities
by Angela Guess A new press release states, “Barracuda Networks, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-enabled security and data protection solutions, today announced expanded public cloud functionality for the Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Barracuda NextGen Firewall. The updated cloud generation firewalls allow for utility-based consumption and automated security controls for DevSecOps workflows, giving customers […]
Druva Introduces Next Generation Cloud-to-Cloud Data Protection with Apollo for AWS
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Today, Druva announced Druva Apollo a new service delivered via the Druva Cloud Platform that enables data management for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud workloads on a single policy control plane. The capabilities offer the ability to protect, govern and provide insights to data that […]
Privacy Impact Assessments: Why and When to Do Them
Click to learn more about author Cathy Nolan. What is a Privacy Impact Assessment? A Privacy Impact Assessment, or PIA, is an analysis of how personally identifiable information (PII) is collected, used, shared, and maintained. Why do it? If your organization needs to comply with the GDPR, a PIA will demonstrate that program managers and system […]
The New Data-Centric Organization: Leave the Duct Tape Behind
Stan Christiaens believes that the fourth industrial revolution is here, and if you want to be part of it, you’ll have to become a data-driven company. Speaking at the DATAVERSITY© Enterprise Data World 2017 Conference, Christiaens said during his presentation titled “The #1 Reason You’re Not a Data-Driven Company” that many companies try to adopt […]
Commvault HyperScale Provides Powerful Scale-Out Data Protection Infrastructure
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “Commvault, a global leader in enterprise backup, recovery, archive and the cloud, today launched Commvault HyperScale Appliance and Commvault HyperScale Software, two powerful, cloud-ready data infrastructure offerings that provide customers with on-premises simplicity, elasticity, resiliency, flexibility and scale for managing secondary data. Flexible to fit a wide […]
NetApp Data Fabric Accelerates Data Protection and Application Performance in the Hybrid Cloud
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “NetApp, the data authority in a hybrid cloud world, today announced that it has further enhanced the company’s Data Fabric, already an integral part of over 300,000 systems and software deployments. The Data Fabric is strengthened with new software releases, including for NetApp® SolidFire® Element® OS, […]
Rackspace Launches New Privacy and Data Protection Offering
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Rackspace® today announced the launch of Privacy and Data Protection (PDP), a new cybersecurity offering designed to help identify and protect sensitive data in a customer’s environment such as intellectual property, customer payment information and personally identifiable information, while meeting strict compliance requirements around securing data at […]