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On August 7, 2013
Risk assessment for your organization’s information security
This is possibly one of the most important steps toward preparing your organization for true security and not just paper security. There are risk assessment templates that a data security team can use but what is relevant to an organization are the true risks related to their particular environmen ...
Read MoreOn July 31, 2013
A recent hacking Incident and Charges
Here's a quick summary of a hack involving 5 hackers from Ukraine and Russia. The US Secret Service had been on the case for a while and in a federal indictment recently in New Jersery, the hackers were charged for consipiring in a worldwide data breach scheme involving hundreds of millions of doll ...
Read MoreOn April 29, 2013
Malware attacks are becoming more pervasive, sophisticated and dangerous
Hence, defence mechanisms have to pick up speed as well to counter these malware attacks. The usual traditional ways of preventing these attacks such as installing firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, anti-virus and security gateways are just not enough according to a research study. Most att ...
Read MoreOn February 11, 2013
What are you going to do if the next hurricane hits your building and your data has disappeared along with your building?
Natural disasters are unforeseen. Nobody can predict the extent of damage any of these fires, floods or earthquakes can cause. The alert has been heightened for secuirty of data. However, prevention of loss of data is as important and has not been the top priority for companies. Plain old ba ...
Read MoreOn November 26, 2012
Facts on data loss and recovery
Did you know that…? 70% of small firms that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year. Of companies experiencing catastrophic data loss:
- 43% never reopened
- 51% closed within 2 years
- 80% that do not recover from a disaster within one month are like ... Read More
