Eric Vanderburg, Vice President of Cybersecurity at TCDI, highlights the key questions to consider when identifying your organization’s data, its importance and the level of protection required. I always figured that you would need to know what you have in order to protect it. However, I have seen far too many companies implement “best practices...

Many companies are currently in various phases of projects to comply with the European Union’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) ahead of the May 2018 enforcement deadline. Many vendors and service providers speak generally about GDPR and often, in my view, over simplify solutions to issues that are raised. Rather than try to address the whole...

The best way to protect and govern your data is to let it tell your business applications and infrastructure what it contains. Chris Farrelly, General Manager at HANDD Business Solutions, explains how that’s possible and why you should do it A quick Google search on “data, lifeblood, and business” turns up dozens of headlines, each with a hoary old...

Healthcare is a highly competitive industry where payers and providers are subject to significant regulatory oversight. The complex needs of these organizations, and their patients, must be delivered in as efficient a manner as possible, and with precision, while taking every precaution to ensure appropriate levels of data security and privacy. ...

Why is Data Retention & Archiving Important? Businesses manage data retention in a multitude of ways for many different reasons, ranging from technical considerations to privacy and liability concerns. The regular considerations are, and will always be, top of mind to include regulatory requirements and compliance, financial reporting, disaster...

Email classification software gives businesses the ability to classify emails in accordance with their sensitivity. This ensures that you have better control over data, and that confidential information is only shared with intended recipients. Read on to discover more about the benefits of such software in further detail.Assess your company’s level of...

Data classification tools are increasing in popularity with every day that goes by. This is of no surprise when you consider the huge threat of a data breach and the increased coverage such incidents are getting on television. Businesses are now concerned with the welfare of their data, and so they should be. One of the only ways to ensure you...