Archive for the ‘data governance’ Category
According to data collected by the HHS Office for Civil Rights, over 113 million individuals were affected by protected health information breaches in 2015. Ninety-nine percent of these individuals were victims of hacking, while the remaining 1 percent suffered from…
While it is easy to say and conclude that all data belongs to your organization, complications arise when the person accountable for data ownership has to be identified. Even when the IT department spearheads the process of processing, storing, and…
The future of the cloud seems bright, Cisco predicts that by 2018, 59% of cloud workloads will be created from Software As A Service (SaaS). While these statistics are optimistic, we cannot ignore a few concerns that stifle cloud adoption…
In this article, let us explore a bit about origin of HIPAA privacy & security rules and its major parts such as – who are covered, what information is protected, and what safeguards need to be in place to…
Gartner recently released their 2015 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing(EFSS). The criteria for a vendor to be included in the list are Revenue, Geography, Commercial Availability, Total Users, Largest Deployment, References and Product Capabilities. Most of the…
Data loss prevention can be defined as the strategies to prevent employees from accidentally or unknowingly sending sensitive information outside the corporate network. In an increasingly connected world, there are multiple ways for confidential data to leak outside the confines…
FileCloud competes with Novell Filr 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…
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…