IT Network Firewall Technology is a Model for Business Continuity Too
Instead of (or as well as) trying to sneak past a firewall with a few innocent-looking data packets, the DOS attack tries to cripple a network
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome – Is Carelessness or Ignorance the Bigger Problem?
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a new threat for humans. Also known as ‘camel flu’, it is a viral respiratory illness first identified in 2012 in Saudi Arabia, where so far it has caused over 280 deaths. Since then it has spread to other countries. As of late June 2015, South Korea was the…
A Marketing Lesson in the Debate about AES 128 and AES 256 Encryption
For business executives and marketers, as well as IT departments, the following paragraphs on the secrets of cryptography hold a useful lesson. First a quick recap on what this is all about. AES stands for Advanced Encryption Standard, used to keep your data confidential. The 128 and 256 numbers refer to the size of the…
Image Backups Help You Get Back in Business Faster
What does it take to get PC or server backups to work properly and bring computers back to operational status?
Backfiring Data Encryption or Being Hoisted by Your Own Petard
Data encryption should be a good thing for security. When your data is encrypted using today’s encryption standards, other people cannot decode your files or your information. Data at rest encryption (DARE) takes care of the data sitting on hard drives, while data in motion encryption (logically DIME – you read it here first!) ensures…
Teachers and Role Models Falling Down on Disaster Recovery
When it comes to singling out sectors that are in the forefront of disaster recovery, finance is often quoted as an example. With so much depending on the ability to recover systems and data rapidly after any incident, major banks were among the first to implement hot failover data centres for instance – as well…