In an era where sensitive data is a prime target for cyberattacks and compliance violations, effective data classification is the critical first step in safeguarding information. Recognizing the ...

Using confidentiality, integrity, and availability to classify data. To determine the level of protections applied to a system, base your classification on the most confidential data stored in the ...

Wylie Wong is a freelance journalist who specializes in business, technology and sports. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. It doesn’t take long for a college’s ...

Data drives business, but data can be a double-edged sword. How can you limit access to that vital enterprise marketing plan, confidential account database or super-secret research report? On the ...

According to a new Forrester report on data classification and discovery, “This is a foundational capability to develop to optimize your efforts for security, privacy and compliance. You can’t protect ...

Data classification is an essential pre-requisite to data protection, security and compliance. Firms need to know where their data is and the types of data they hold. Organisations also need to ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Data sovereignty is a hot topic. For commercial and public sector organisations, compliance to ensure personal data is secure is a primary objective. And that means it cannot be subject to foreign ...