Data Management

Is It Time to Update Your IT Security Policies?

Vivian Cullipher, September 18, 2019 | Data Sanitization

While technology developments come fast and furious, the policies that govern them often aren’t agile enough to keep up. And, when it comes to IT security policies, new technologies aren’t the only factors that can leave your standard protection methods outdated: Changes in business structure, regulation, the value of your data, the speed of data collection and increased malicious activity can also lessen their effectiveness. All of this leaves even … Read More

Data Sanitization Enters “Slope of Enlightenment” on Gartner Hype Cycle

Vivian Cullipher, September 12, 2019 | Data Sanitization

The Gartner Hype Cycles provide a graphic representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and applications, and how they are potentially relevant to solving real business problems and exploiting new opportunities. In addressing data sanitization in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Data Security, 2019,1 Hype Cycle for Privacy, 20192 and Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security, 2019,3 Gartner analysts have provided the following definition: “data sanitization is the disciplined process … Read More

Managing the Data Lifecycle of Your Organization’s Assets

Fredrik Forslund, May 30, 2019 | Data Management

Many companies have different policies for physical IT asset management and data lifecycle management (DLM), but no policy is efficient unless properly executed in practice. … Read More

Supply Chain Attack: Why Organizations Need Data Sanitization at All Stages of the Data Lifecycle

Liz Adams, October 31, 2018 | Data Sanitization

In October 2018, Bloomberg Businessweek published an extensive investigative article into the compromise of some of the U.S.’s largest organizations. The article details a mammoth hardware hack originating in China, wherein rogue hardware was fitted into motherboards at the beginning of the supply chain and later used to facilitate complete, unrestricted access to the systems at the other end. This kind of hack unearths a concerning vulnerability in the technology … Read More

Are Onsite Data Centers or Cloud Storage the Best Way to Protect Data?

Fredrik Forslund, January 25, 2018 | Data Management

You may have heard of millennials “killing things,” from napkins to chain restaurants, but did you know that onsite (on-premises) data centers could also be meeting their doom in the near future? Even though 65 percent of enterprise workloads were running in owned or onsite data centers in 2017, and the fact that this number hasn’t changed much from 2014, tech experts and analysts expect 2018 will be the year … Read More