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Hackers and their growing potential power over your data are the talk of the town in early 2015. After the infamous Sony and celebrity hacks last year, not to mention the declaration of war against jihadists by the international hacker network Anonymous, hackers seem to be gaining political and corporate power rapidly. But data security is […]

If data is a company’s lifeblood, the number of predators waiting to feed on that data is staggering. Hundreds of millions of records have been verified as lost to data breaches, according to privacyrights.org, based on voluntary disclosure information. The actual number may well be into the billions. While estimates vary, it is difficult to

An Information Governance Policy, often called Records Retention, is a critical aspect of your business. Yet, you ignore it at your own peril. The intensity of the game ramped up with 2006 amendments to the FRCP governing Electronically Stored Information (ESI.) Without a good retention and media destruction policy, in a lawsuit, you could be forced to

Have you ever thought of how you’ll deal with the end of your computer’s life cycle? Surely you know that you can’t just throw the computer out. It isn’t legal and, in terms of data security, it isn’t safe. Here are five reasons to consider getting a hard drive crusher from Phiston Technologies. 1. Our products can

Recently, in a post published at bobsguide, IT expert and Imprima Torgny Gunnarsson stated that Online Trust reported that 740 million online records containing sensitive data were exposed in 2013. In the same year, Adobe lost user information for 33 million customers because of hacking. 40 million Target shoppers had their credit card details accessed by

Statistics show that data security is a number one priority for small and large businesses alike. This means that along with ensuring current data is safe, you also need to develop a plan for safe destruction of old or unused devices. This task can get a bit confusing. Your destruction plan must follow the guidelines of

A business should place a lot of chips in data security as a data or security breach can be quite the hassle to deal with, not to mention expensive depending on the particular case. In order to avoid a situation like this, your business should focus on data security, and after doing this on a consistent

You already know why it’s important to protect the data on your blu ray disc. What you want to know now is how to destroy it. You have a few options when it comes to the destruction of a blu ray disc. You can destroy it the hard way or you can destroy it the easy way. The easy

Businesses that experience a security breach must go through an extensive and expensive recovery process. It is better for companies to prevent a security breach from happening in the first place. Knowing the consequences that security breaches can cause may entice businesses to think differently. In an article by Inside Counsel, Ed Silverstein discusses how data

Part of your data security plan should always include erasing old data which could fall into the wrong hands. This protects not only your customers, but also your business. The last thing you want to do is to make customers feel your business is careless when it comes to their sensitive information. Protecting their data

Many people think that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, only counts for people in the health care line, such as doctors, dentists, hospitals, or health insurance companies. While it is true that HIPAA directly affects the way that they deal with the protection of information, it can actually affect

It’s understandable why one gets a kind of sinking feeling in the pit of the stomach each time a news story airs about another breach in data security. Regardless of how many firewalls you may have, no matter how thoroughly you believe your data may be encrypted, it’s hard not to question, “Have I done enough?”

Information security is a battle on multiple fronts. Firewalls to prevent unauthorized remote access, passwords and fingerprint scanners to prevent unauthorized physical access, even padlocks to prevent lifting a whole machine from a secure site. There are systems in place to thwart a whole range of nefarious data thieves; expert hackers, moles, and cat burglars,

When you talk about data security, many people assume you are talking about your presence online and how to protect your assets. While this is true, media destruction is one of the most important aspects of data security, and ironically, it is one of the most often overlooked. 5 ways data security is related to media destruction Here

Firewalls, anti-malware, virus scans; along with growth in technology, we’ve also seen our society gradually morph into one that’s incredibly focused on data security. That’s certainly not a bad thing. Unfortunately, the problem arises when companies focus purely on the “frontline” security. When such businesses, for example, pour all of their security resources into defending their