Blog Posts Tagged with "Storage"
Twelve Security Best Practices for USB Drives
February 07, 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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Data Loss Prevention Step 6: Encrypting Data at Rest
February 06, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Even if you did know where all your critical information is, you'd probably be powerless to control its sprawl. Let's face it, systems consume data and then become mobile - which is hardly something you can do anything about in a world where mobility is a key business driver...
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On Software Vendor Access to Customer Data
January 30, 2012 Added by:Ben Kepes
The issue is a massive one for the industry and in a back-channel discussions a number of people made comments regarding how much of a risk to the cloud industry service provider access to data is. One person went on to say that this perception is poison to sales growth...
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It's Time to Evolve How We Protect Our Data
January 24, 2012 Added by:Josh Shaul
Advanced systems for protecting databases have been available for several years now, and have become mature and reliable technology. Databases can be locked down with secure configurations, strong access controls, and effective patch management strategies...
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Data Loss Prevention Step 5: Disable Access to Cloud Storage Services
January 16, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
This is part 5 in a series, and it's about pulling your data away from the clutches of the cloud. It's not all as crazy as that sounds though, because the cloud has real benefits, but it has to be approached with sanity rather than as the ostrich approaches the sandstorm...
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Data Center Complexity and Clarity Around Outages
December 28, 2011 Added by:Ben Kepes
Things like physical security, multiple redundant power and networks to incredibly complex networking and load balancing components – the modern data center is an incredibly complex beast. And yet they still suffer outages...
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The State of Solid State
December 21, 2011 Added by:Emmett Jorgensen
Solid state disks are more reliable because SSDs do not contain any moving parts. There are no read heads, actuator arms or spinning platters that can break down in an SSD. SSDs can be moved around freely while in use and have a higher tolerance against shock and vibration than HDDs...
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Digital Forensics for Legal Professionals
November 30, 2011 Added by:Ben Rothke
The book provides the reader with a high-level overview of all of the fundamental areas around digital forensics, from how the legal system works, selecting an expert witness, evidence, to storage media, records/logging, call records and more...
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Flawed Analysis: On Clouds “Playing Nice”
November 13, 2011 Added by:Ben Kepes
The report gives a higher rating to applications that have native integration, and kind of discounts the awesome work that third party integrators are doing to tie together application as somehow inferior. But the report then goes on to give one example of a native integration...
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NYSBA Releases E-Discovery Best Practices Guidelines
November 04, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The guidelines are organized in a systematic fashion covering topics applicable to electronically stored information before, during and after e-discovery has occurred and includes coverage of legal holds, adequate preservation, investigations, duty to preserve, inadvertent alteration...
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Is Cloud Computing Secure?
October 26, 2011 Added by:Brittany Lyons
The future of data storage online is certainly cloud computing, as it provides instant access to data under a heavy load and redundant backups for when the inevitable fail should happen. The security measures that go into protecting this future will only become more stringent as time goes on...
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The Economic Benefit of Cloud Computing
October 24, 2011 Added by:Kevin L. Jackson
In considering cloud computing for the Intelligence Community, security is an obvious concern. Classified information should always be processed in properly protected and certified IC private or community clouds. If a secure cloud model can be designed, economic savings can certainly be realized...
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The Next Generation of Non-Volatile Memory
October 12, 2011 Added by:Emmett Jorgensen
When will manufacturers stop using Flash as the primary storage? Consider that in 2002 many experts assumed that Flash cells would not be stable when scaled past 45nm and predicted that it would need to be replaced by 2010. We know now that those predictions proved to be false...
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Avoid Becoming a Security Statistic
October 12, 2011 Added by:Konrad Fellmann
Some organizations hoard data, but have no idea why. A business owner needs to figure out why the data needs to be kept, who will use the data, and how long it needs to be kept for business, legal or contractual reasons. Once defined, IT can implement proper controls to protect the data...
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Cloud versus Local Storage Security
September 22, 2011 Added by:Emmett Jorgensen
Each storage medium offers its own benefits for different scenarios. It's up to the user to choose the option that best fits. Security is a major difference in these two types of storage. Until cloud storage becomes more secure, many will prefer local storage alternatives...
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Who You Gonna Call When You Lose Data in the Cloud?
July 12, 2011 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
Cloud services enable customers to securely manage workloads, system and application downtime while reducing data loss. Placing huge amounts of data in the cloud creates the need for a business resilience strategy that will ensure continuous operation and create a competitive advantage...
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