Do you back up your data? Nearly half of small businesses have learned the hard way why regular data backups are crucial, yet many still fail to backup critical data, or they cut corners to save a ...

Data compliance and governance refer to rules and regulations designed to protect the privacy of personal information and typically carry penalties for organizations that fail to abide by them. This ...

Backing up data is essential, but encrypting your files prevents unauthorized access. Encryption converts your files into unreadable data, ensuring that even if your backup is compromised, your ...

Data sprawl has forced organizations to invest in more data security resources, and is drastically inflating data backup ...

Its Copy-on-Write ensures my data remains untouched even during failed write operations, while checksums and scrub tasks can ...

Data risks and opportunities. (taken at Barbican, London). — Image by © Tim Sandle Data risks and opportunities. (taken at Barbican, London). — Image by © Tim ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Making backups is boring, but the alternative—losing your data—is the kind of excitement no one wants. March 31 is World Backup Day, which is lame, but why not use this as the impetus to get those ...

Ransomware is the biggest problem in cybersecurity today. According to research by Veeam, for example, 76 percent of organizations suffered at least one cyberattack in 2021, and organizations that ...

Even established businesses with substantial IT budgets make critical backup mistakes that can cost millions in lost data and expose organizations to catastrophic failures. While most established and ...

Browse the comments on virtually any story about a ransomware attack and you will almost surely encounter the view that the victim organization could have avoided paying their extortionists if only ...

Being that I have spent my entire adult life working in IT, I quite naturally get a lot of questions from friends and family about issues that they may be having with their systems. Most of the time, ...