If yours is like most businesses these days, many of your employees use their own smartphones, tablets and/or laptops to do their jobs — and the numbers are climbing fast as more people go mobile. Pew Research Center reports that as of May 2013, 56% of American adults have a smartphone and as of September 2013, 35% own a tablet.
If you’ve gotten this far through 2013 without an information security breach , count yourself fortunate. According to a recent survey by PwC , CIO magazine , and CSO magazine , security incidents have increased 25% over the last year. The financial costs of these incidents have climbed, too — by 18%.
The PwC/CIO/CSO survey points to three culprits: new hacker strategies, the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend and cloud computing. And it warns that too many organizations have not changed their security stances, leaving themselves dangerously vulnerable to new kinds of threats.
Football games are as much a part of Thanksgiving as turkey, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. In football, there’s a term called getting “ear holed”. For those who have never played the greatest sport in America, the best definition I can provide is as follows:
Ear Holed: A player being tackled/blocked from the side, leaving ones feet and potentially losing consciousness momentarily, without warning or seeing the hit coming.
If you’re more visually inclined, check out this video clip . I think we can all agree no one wants to be #10 from Wisconsin in that moment.
Late last month, LinkedIn launched a new service called Intro that, in a matter of days, has added plenty of fuel to the convenience vs. security-and-privacy fires.
You see, LinkedIn Intro dangles the carrot of public cloud convenience: By showing LinkedIn profiles in the iPhone/iPad Mail app, Intro instantly delivers up all manner of info about the unfamiliar name appearing in your inbox — what the sender looks like, what he does, where he’s based. And it works both ways — for mail received and sent.
As the virtues of cloud-based data backup and disaster recovery/business continuity become increasingly apparent, it’s important to remember that moving some or all of your backup and DR functionality to cloud services involves more than a quick signup.
Here are eight cloud disaster recovery best practices that can make the difference between success and failure:
It is that time of year again. The seasons are changing, the days are getting shorter and the end of the year is fast approaching. Customers are wrapping up projects, closing out budgets and starting to plan operations for the New Year. Procurement decisions have been made and the project cycle will continue into the winter.
