Ever felt the need to protect your important documents, financial reports, source codes or private files from theft or illegal duplication? With your computer, you have little choice but to worry about the inadequate data protection available in your machine. With countless USB drive slots,…
Unprecedented demand for fresh and relevant information has witnessed an unprecedented data growth over the past decade. This has attracted the ability to retain rights to intellectual data and the capability to protect that data with force. And as data continues to grow and be…
Looking at the state of the storage industry, one can easily see the unabated growth of data and its resulting impact on consumers’ ability to retain that data and protect it effectively. According to a latest research, 58% of survey participants envision the growth of…
The number of recent data breach incidents has shattered much of security protocol claims of user data and information protection in the digital world. It is an understood fact that when it comes to data protection, there is no silver bullet. However, there are certain…
This article takes a view of today’s authentication methods and reasons on why using password-protection as a data security option is still relevant in today’s environment. Various observations in the past have reaffirmed the importance of password-protection as a security mechanism for data. Most observers…
The constant change of information in the world and the frolics of groups like Anonymous and LulzSec over the past few months have only but assured data breaches to be an inevitable truth. If companies like RSA Security, one of the global leaders in information…
Encryption is the process of altering plaintext information using an algorithm (AES) to make it unreadable except to those who have a key that unlocks the encryption. This process will encrypt the information and provides security to the contents of that information. Data protection software…
Recent publicly available data reports various data-breach incident costs to continue to rise. The latest figures according to the Ponemon Institute put the value of these incidents at more than $214 per compromised record with an average of $7.2 million per data breach event per…
The global interconnection of different elements on the Internet has made insider threat to organization data a reality. Most often, the insider threat scenario may not even involve having direct access to the computer system or network in question. However, the person may take advantage…
Given the many motivations that seem to remain the same, insider threats to an organization can be separated into three exclusive types. The following may help security advisors and information security personnel in staying up to speed with these types of insider threats. Insider threat…
