Security teams are constantly challenged to identify security incidents that truly matter and respond to them before they become a serious threat to business operations. The proliferation of data only complicates matters. Many security operations centers (SOCs) are finding themselves overwhelmed by telemetry data to correlate, a proliferation of tools, expanding attack surfaces that are [...]
Data security is foundational to your organization’s security posture and operational resilience. A proactive data security approach drives better success in protecting your critical assets and brand trust. You now have an extended arsenal of tools to call on in your quest for better data security. IBM Security Guardium Insights is now available on IBM [...]
Companies trying to manage their own backup and recovery face a host of challenges and complications that are often impossible to overcome. Data protection typically falls on administrators with full workloads and other responsibilities, leaving them with no time to assess their current environment and ensure they are correctly protecting workloads. As a result, companies [...]
What is your organization doing to protect the value of your data? A strong data governance strategy helps ensure that your data is usable, accessible and protected, guaranteeing trust in the quality and consistency of the data. But creating a data governance program is not something you can do overnight. It involves establishing methods, processes [...]
Every year Veritas considers its top U.S., Canada, and Latin America partners for its Partner of the Year awards, which recognizes excellence in innovation, growth and performance throughout the year. This year, Sirius was named Veritas’ Top New Business Growth National Business Partner: U.S. in recognition of achieving the largest growth in new business revenue as [...]
The importance of metadata Metadata is best defined as data that characterizes data. When you query a database, it returns a specific piece of information. Metadata provides the who, what, where, when, why and how of that information. When companies have a properly engineered process to create, store and manage metadata, it benefits all [...]
Businesses today are collecting more data than ever before as a result of the “data flood” caused by the Internet of Things (IoT), social media, cell phones and email. All that collected data is stored in databases that must be properly managed, accessed, tracked and protected, adding to the already heavy workload of IT staff [...]
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the new EU data privacy regulation that comes into force on May 25, 2018. GDPR requires organizations to manage customer data more securely, and to provide some fundamental data rights to EU citizens regarding access to data about them, as well as portability of their data. Some of [...]
As organizations are migrating workloads to the cloud, concerns rise around complexity, loss of visibility, lack of security, and inability to forecast costs. However, moving workloads to the cloud allows the removal of blind spots. You can’t protect what you can’t see. Moreover, you can’t operate what you can’t see; you can’t manage cost for [...]
Managing data security these days is a bit complicated. Too much data is stored solely on user devices. With approximately 30 percent of corporate data living on laptops and mobile devices, it is no wonder that IT is constantly in risk-abatement mode, trying to mitigate the unintended consequences of BYOD, third-party devices, and ad hoc [...]