What is Infrastructure Cybersecurity? The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) defines National Critical Functions (NCFs) as, “…functions of the government and the private sector so vital to the United States their disruption, corruption, or dysfunction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination thereof.”1 […]
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What are Data-Wiping Cyberattacks? The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has urged U.S. organizations to strengthen their cybersecurity defenses against data-wiping cyberattacks.1 CISA warns that these cyberattacks can disrupt essential services and can impact companies, non-profits, and organizations of all sizes across multiple sectors of the economy. This warning has been issued in response […]
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Server Backup
How are Servers Backed Up? Backup servers are powerful computers that are responsible for storing and protecting critical network data from threats such as natural disasters, extended power outages, human error, and cyberattacks. Servers can be local or cloud-based and can back up data files, folders, databases, hard drives, applications, and more. Local backup. […]
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Restoration
How are Devices and Data Restored? We generally have much more experience backing things up than we have restoring them. This indicates that we are prepared for emergencies, and emergencies only rarely happen. When disaster does strike, such as when devices become victims of natural disasters, cyberattacks, human error, power surges, or theft, it can […]
What is VDI? The work landscape has changed dramatically, with employees increasingly working from home and hybrid cloud ecosystems becoming commonplace. As the landscape changes to include more employees working from various locations, on different devices, and within many systems, the challenges of administration and security are growing and changing as well. In order to […]
How Is Data Integrity Maintained? Data integrity refers to the overall completeness, accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data over its lifecycle. Protecting data integrity involves taking measures to protect data against improper maintenance, modification, or alteration to ensure data authenticity. Managing data integrity is important for ensuring searchability, traceability, connectivity, stability, reusability, and maintainability. If […]
What is a Security Operations Center? A security operations center (SOC) is a centralized facility that houses an information security team that is responsible for continuously monitoring, analyzing, and improving an organization’s security posture. The goal of the SOC team is to prevent, detect, analyze, and respond to cybersecurity incidents, around the clock. SOC teams […]
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Legacy Data
What is Legacy Data? Legacy data is information stored in old or obsolete formats and/or computer systems, making it difficult to access or process. New digital technologies designed for mobile devices, cloud storage, and in-house databases are often incompatible with legacy databases, so it may be time to consider doing something about that. It will […]
Data Destruction and Bankruptcy A lot of interest and attention is focused on issues relating to the security and storage of data, but there is also a lot to understand and consider regarding the final phase of data life: destruction. Perhaps it is due to the optimism with which one builds a business, but it is not built often enough with its […]
Cloud Archiving For a host of practical reasons, your organization must engage in some method of long-term records retention. It is likely that this is a topic that your organization has not spent much time thinking about or discussing, because a system that was in place earlier has been inherited and continues to be in use. If this system involves banker’s […]