Category: News

July 29, 2024

Increased risks during CrowdStrike recovery

The fallout from the CrowdStrike outage continues. While major players are largely up and running again, there are still affected systems out there working on a full recovery. During this period, organizations are open to increased risks during their CrowdStrike recovery – including from phishing attacks. CERT-In – the Indian Computer...

July 22, 2024

Consequences of CrowdStrike

Last weekend saw one of the largest collapses of online infrastructure since McAfee’s 2010 Windows XP bug, due to an update-induced failure on systems running CrowdStrike. As...

July 15, 2024

What data regulations should I follow?

With the world becoming more heavily regulated and the list of regulations becoming more complex, setting up a data management system, data protections, backups and archives is...

July 8, 2024

Largest data breach to date

In an unprecedented event, almost ten billion unique passwords have been leaked online. The compilation, named RockYou2024, is being referred to as “the largest data breach to...

July 1, 2024

Cybersecurity concerns for small businesses

Cybersecurity, data protection and data handling are recurring topics that affect all organizations in today’s online environment. Despite this, cybersecurity concerns for small...

June 24, 2024

Ban on Kaspersky leads to major cybersecurity shakeup

Late last week, the US government has sent major shockwaves by instituting a ban on products by Kaspersky – a major Russian-based player on the cybersecurity market. The US...

June 17, 2024

Migration to and from the Cloud

With Microsoft having updated their pricing for Azure, it’s high time to look at the question of migration to and from the Cloud again. The Cloud continues to grow Worldwide...

June 10, 2024

Storage Optimizer – Your key to savings

Introduced late last year, Storage Optimizer for Microsoft 365 continues to be the only freely available tool for analyzing your data usage and giving clear, actionable advice...

June 3, 2024

Cybersecurity in the Cloud

The adoption of the Cloud continues to grow. Gartner has found that 94% of organizations agree that public cloud is a crucial part of their digital business initiatives. While...

May 27, 2024

Lapses in healthcare cybersecurity require attention

Over the past year, two things have become increasingly clear. One is that cybercriminals are increasingly targeting the healthcare sector. The other is that lapses in healthcare...

May 20, 2024

I’m on the Cloud – why do I need backups?

The question of “why do I need backups or an archive when I’m on the Cloud” gets asked fairly frequently. After all, the Cloud provider generally keeps a backup of your data...

May 13, 2024

Designing your archiving strategy

Planning for success Archiving data in the modern day is one of the cornerstones of keeping an organization’s continuity intact; it ensures that information remains accessible...

May 6, 2024

USA pushes international cybersecurity measures

The Biden administration is set to unveil a new set of international cybersecurity measures, building on top of their existing cybersecurity focus. This comes against the...

April 29, 2024

Microsoft’s new focus on cybersecurity

After the financial success of Microsoft in the past fiscal year, Satya Nadella has announced Microsoft is shifting focus to cybersecurity. This announcement follows last year’s...

April 8, 2024

Archiving challenges following Veritas’ merger

One of the giants in archiving, Veritas has dominated the scene for decades. As with other companies, however, this has left them a slow-moving giant not flexible enough to easily...

April 1, 2024

NIS2 – mandatory disaster recovery

As we’ve covered previously, the cybersecurity space is becoming increasingly heavily regulated. This is nowhere more apparent than in the European Union, where a series of...

February 26, 2024

What is DORA, and how will it affect your business?

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is an EU regulation that entered into force on 16 January 2023 and will apply as of 17 January 2025. Following on to a long list of...

February 16, 2024

Arcserve Cloud Services announces End of Life

In a surprising move that has left many Managed Service Providers (MSPs) in a lurch, Arcserve, a renowned developer of storage and data protection software, has announced the...

February 5, 2024

Data retention and deletion – a key concern

Government regulation continues to mount regarding the future of data retention and deletion, a key aspect in national and international legislation. At the same time,...

January 29, 2024

Data Protection Day 2024

This weekend was Data Protection Day for the year 2024. On 26 April 2006 the Council of Europe decided to launch a Data Protection Day to be celebrated each year on 28 January....