Category: Commentaries and Analyses

Adam Ely excerpts from a new report by Dark Reading: It’s 3 a.m., and you get the call: There has been a breach. You don’t know much about it, just what the first responder could quickly relay. Upon arriving and assembling your team, you realize the situation is very serious. A database containing highly sensitive…

John Leyden reports: The security threat from carelessly ditched computers increasingly applies to a much wider range of office equipment, as sophisticated storage technology finds its way into humble devices such as fax machines and printers. The risk that sensitive documents might make their way into the hands of undesirables was neatly illustrated by a…

Symantec Corp.  released the findings of its 2010 Information Management Health Check Survey, which hammers home a point I made the other day about getting rid of unnecessary data. For the current survey, Symantec  surveyed 1,680 enterprises in 26 countries.  They found that while 87% of respondents believe in the value of a formal information…