According to a report by the Rand Corporation, the cyber black market is progressively growing- hackers are now more collaborative than ever and consistently use sophisticated strategies to target and infiltrate data centers. In the past, they were driven by…
If the Cloud Security Alliance’s report on cloud security is anything to go by, data loss is one of the most critically damaging disasters in most organizations. The report, which the company used to comprehensively assess and document various cloud…
FileCloud competes with PowerFolder for business in the Enterprise File Sync and Share space(EFSS). Before we get into the details, I believe an ideal EFSS system should work across all the popular desktop OSes (Windows, Mac and Linux) and offer…
The power of information technology that helped grow the global financial system exponentially has also enabled complexity in last 10 years more than what was built over centuries. With the ever-competitive pace of the financial sector and the blazing speeds…
HIPAA, otherwise known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act, which was first introduced in 1996, demanded that the department for human services and health in the U.S. (HHS) should create specific regulations to protect the security and privacy…
Would it surprise you to know that 93 percent of all documents in the world are created electronically, of which 70 percent never even go through a hard copy conversion? this fun fact is not from some 2015 survey, but…
The Federal government requires organizations to identify PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and PHI (Protected Health Information) and handle them securely. Any unauthorized release of this data could result in severe repercussions for the individual whose information has been compromised, as…
10 Reasons Why Educational Institutions Should Use Self Hosted File Sharing Systems “The cloud”- Undoubtedly one of the predominant buzz words in recent years as far as technology and computing is concerned. The recent techno-revolution was triggered by the cloud’s…
Multiple investigations are currently in progress to analyze the data breach at Anthem insurance, in which over 80 million records were stolen including SSN, credit card and medical history. The incident shows how hackers are increasingly targeting health care industry, mainly for its rich…
As the digital landscape evolves at a breakneck pace, we know now that technology laws such as Moore’s law are living up to its expectations. The question is – are our civil and criminal laws really up to the challenge…