May 25, 2018 – that’s probably the biggest day of the decade for the universe of data on the Internet. On this date, Europe’s data protection rules – European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – becomes enforceable. In 2012, the…
Largely fueled by the US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy, many governmental institutions and organizations have been gradually migrating to the cloud. The cloud has not only proven to be beneficial to businesses, but also governmental organizations as they seek to…
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…
The year 2010 proved to be revolutionary to government CIOs since it oversaw the passing of the US Cloud First Policy, which significantly affected federal agencies’ IT frameworks. It was principally aimed at increasing flexibility and reducing IT costs by…
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…
With governments ramping up their efforts to clamp down on unscrupulously liberal data industry practices to combat the growing risks of identity theft and privacy violations, it is safe to say the digital information industry is not the Wild, Wild…
Apart from businesses and corporations, government agencies are other major consumers of storage solutions nationwide. Before the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative, government agencies largely relied on in-house storage systems that compromised of thousands of data storage drives in unconsolidated…
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…
The meteoric rise of BYOD is not just a run-of-the-mill technological reality check that organizations have to bear once in a while, but rather a gateway that promises to bring seamless connectivity to data sharing. It is undeniable that smartphones…