Secure Passwords: A Cautionary Tale
I am hesitant to bring up the Ashley Madison mess, but someone has to – site security was even worse than we thought. The Impact Team hackers hacked into the …
Companies: Say No to Consumer-Level File Sharing (Part 2)
In “Just Say No” Part 1 we talked about Dropbox and why it’s not ready for prime time in the enterprise. In Part 2 we’ll talk about what file share …
Companies: Just Say No to Consumer-Level File Sharing
Dropbox is a big consumer-based file sharing service, famous among users for its simplicity — and infamous among IT professionals for being unmanageable. …
HIPAA-Compliant Backup: Secondary Data Protection
Sensing a big opportunity, a number of technology companies added HIPAA-compliant software and services. But how compliant are these vendors? HIPAA stands for …
How Secure Are Private Clouds?
The private cloud, also known as the internal cloud or corporate cloud, is a proprietary computing architecture that is hosted internally or externally and is …
Two-Factor Authentication: What is it and Why is it Needed?
A Verizon Report in 2012 identified password theft as one of the major causes of data security breaches in the past year. The situation has not changed much …
Common Threats to Cloud Computing Security
Cloud computing is a type of computing in which groups of remote servers are linked to allow centralized storage of data and online access to information …
Unstructured Data is a Waste of Resources… and Potentially Dangerous
What is Unstructured Data? According to Wikipedia, “Unstructured Data refers to information that either does not have a pre-defined data model or is not …
CloudAlloy Breaks Files and Docs in to Many Pieces and Stores them Encrypted in the Cloud
CloudAlloy has come up with an innovative solution to help improve security issues in the cloud. It has become apparent that Cloud security is a number one …
The 5 Most Important Steps to Ensuring Data Security in the Cloud
The use of cloud computing services makes a lot of sense for many businesses. By storing data on remote servers, businesses can access data whenever and …
4 Enterprise IT Security Tips for 2013 and Beyond
Each new year brings new IT challenges. Some challenges arise from technological innovation. Others come from an organization’s growth, evolving compliance …
How to Keep Your Cloud-Stored Files Secure
Technology has come a long way. What used to be stored in warehouse-sized rooms now fits on a pocket-able thumb drive. With the advent of the Cloud, storage …
Underground Hackers Have Trouble Reaching The Cloud
In the tech industry, there is constant debate about the safety and security of SaaS. This is a long and complicated debate that would require more than just …