Particularly if youre a sysadmin, even the mention of failure probably leaves a rather bitter taste in your mouth. After all, its your job to ensure that things dont fail - to keep everything up and running through thick and thin. If youre not even able to accomplish that, then what good are you? Heres the thing, though. If we lived in a world without failure, then we wouldnt … [Read more...] about Why Failure Is Nothing To Fear As A Sysadmin
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5 Cyber Risks Affecting the Internet of Things and How to Manage These Risks
The Internet of Things will offer organizations tremendous value and will provide consumers with fantastic benefits. However, the Internet of Things also comes with a wide variety of cyber risks that could harm organizations and consumers who work with the IoT. To protect your organization from these cyber risks, you should have the right data governance procedures in place to … [Read more...] about 5 Cyber Risks Affecting the Internet of Things and How to Manage These Risks
Why Trust and Data Breaches Don’t Get Along
If you want to retain the trust of your customers, you better make sure that you don't have any data breaches. As this infographic, developed by Gemalto, shows, data breaches have a significant impact on consumer trust, loyalty and the perception of how seriously companies take the security of customers' personal and financial data. According to the survey "nearly two-thirds … [Read more...] about Why Trust and Data Breaches Don’t Get Along
Why Humans Are the Weakest Link with Data Breaches
The recent TalkTalk data breach is going to be an expensive data breach. It seams that the British Internet Service Provider will have to spend 35 million pounds on recovery measurements. Although that is a lot of money, it is better than going bankrupt as happened to the Dutch security firm Diginotar after being hacked in 2011. Being hacked is a threat for any organization … [Read more...] about Why Humans Are the Weakest Link with Data Breaches
5 Employee Habits that are Compromising your Business’ Data
IT Security is nothing to joke around about. Data breaches are costing companies billions every year and with increasing external threats from hackers, business owners need to be at the top of their game. But what if your employees were actually to blame for putting your data at risk? We already know that a large percentage of data breaches occur because of employee error. Here … [Read more...] about 5 Employee Habits that are Compromising your Business’ Data
