The answer is a resounding ‘Yes’! Businesses hold all kinds of data; some of it is more valuable than others but all of it needs to be protected. In an increasingly ethically-minded business w...

It can be difficult to imagine what a data loss scenario will be like; it might be all of your data is lost, or only part of your data is corrupted and you have to find those missing parts urgently. I...

The spread of Wi-Fi internet connections throughout coffee shops, airport lounges and other public spaces has been both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, we now have more flexibility to do work...

97% of IT security and administration staff in small to medium-sized business face level or falling IT budgets in the recession, putting increased strain on internal systems as companies try to go gro...

In a bid to protect the European economy’s digital backbone of communications services and networks, the European Commission (EC) has unveiled a new strategy building on 2006’s ‘Strategy for a S...

The latest study from KPMG has revealed that in the past three years, 280 million peop...

2007 saw several embarrassing data breaches publicised in the national media. These breaches not only caused major embarrassment for the companies and government bodies concerned but the regulatory au...

Backing up data has become a standard business practice and in most industries it is an operational requirement. With 90 percent of companies going out of business within a year of failing to recover ...

Hope for the Best, Plan for the Worst The longer you are in business the more data you stockpile. With email, spreadsheets, presentations, word documents, images and other files the gigabytes really ...