The more IT pervades businesses, the more IT-based tools hackers have to exploit vulnerabilities. If you want your company to stay safe, you may need to ‘attack’ yourself to find out where the weak points are and fix them to prevent others from breaking in. The following list of hacker tools and techniques will give…
Here’s the quick version. Hackers operating in the same cloud server hardware as you can steal your encryption keys and run off with your data/bank codes/customers/company (strike out items that do not apply – if any). Yes, behind that mouthful of a title is a scary prospect indeed. Until recently, this kind of cloud-side hacking…
The answer to this question depends on how fast you want your data back and how much time and effort you are prepared to spend. If your data is both mission and time critical, then full, frequent backups possibly with mirrored systems for immediate restore or failover may be the only solution. Financial trading organisations,…
Some enterprises are attracted by the potential advantages of the cloud for disaster recovery and business continuity. However, they fear the possibility of information being spied on, stolen or hacked after it leaves their own physical premises. A little lateral thinking suggests another possible solution. Instead of moving outside a company firewall to use cloud…
As cloud computing develops and providers multiply their data centres, physical location of data has become an important issue for many organisations. Their goal has often been to prevent storage of confidential data outside their national boundaries. The risk of a data breach is considered to be too great, especially in the wake of the…
All business in a competitive market is risk-based, whether or not enterprises admit it. Positive risk indicates opportunities. Negative risk points to the need to take measures to avoid, transfer or mitigate that risk. Banks are a case in point, with risk analysis at the heart of their daily activities as they continually calculate the…