storage
QNAP’s Buggy Security Fix Causes Chaos
RAID FAIL: NAS Maker does a CrowdStrike—cleanup on /dev/dsk/c1t2d3s4 please ...
CRM Backup Trends to Watch on World Backup Day
With World Backup Day approaching, many organizations are increasing their attention to potential security threats and blindspots in their backup processes ...
Best of 2023: Western Digital Hacked: ‘My Cloud’ Data Dead (Even Local Storage!)
Déjà Vu: Hack of WD systems leads to My Cloud service outage. Owners unable to access files ...
Hunter Biden’s Laptop Revisited: What it Means for Cloud Storage
On February 1, 2023, lawyers for first son Hunter Biden took a new approach to the fact that the contents of a laptop he took for repairs and then failed to pick ...
Best Practices for Securing Locally Stored Employee Data
Many businesses are moving to the cloud, but others still retain some data in on-premises solutions. Local storage has many advantages, including providing more control over data security measures and practices. However, ...
Combat Ransomware With a Bottomless Cloud Mindset
In July we saw arguably one of the worst ransomware attacks in history compromise up to 1,500 businesses around the globe. Not only are these attacks worsening, but are becoming more frequent—the ...
Disrupting Ransomware with Advanced File System Techniques
Technology is becoming more effective at early ransomware detection. Solutions can often automatically shut down attacks and minimize the damage. It is reasonable to conclude, however, that there is no truly impenetrable ...
Disconnect your WD My Book Live from the web to avoid data deletion, says Western Digital
Storage drive maker Western Digital is telling owners of its WD My Book Live device to disconnect it from the internet after reports that some have had their data erased by malicious ...
5 Steps to Effective CUI Classification
Prior to the U.S. government’s National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) implementation of the Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) protection framework, government agencies employed ad hoc agency-specific policies, procedures and markings to safeguard ...
Data Classification Is Data Storage
‘Business’ is a verb that practically means the movement of data. If you aren’t sharing data – keeping the books, sharing ideas and stats about sales, getting the correct information regarding the ...
