Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesAlthough strenuous, audits are a critical part of a cloud compliance strategy. Learn about the different types of cloud audits to better prepare for your next review. By Zachary Flower As your company expands its cloud usage, it will need to collate and report information about its infrastructure and processes. Whether your customers expect compliance with formal security policies or
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesEnterprises need to read the fine print of supplier service-level agreements (SLA) or risk finding themselves caught short during downtime incidents. By Stuart Burns The IT industry is awash with credible metrics that are used to measure performance, efficiency, resiliency and a load of other important infrastructure characteristics that are routinely used and abused by suppliers in their marketing materials.
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesHow many “nines” does your own cloud app really need? High availability is still an important factor in a cloud SLA, but uptime needs vary for each service and company. By Zachary Flower When it comes to high availability in cloud computing, companies love to shoot for the moon. Vendors list three, four and five “nines” when marketing downtime, so
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesIT is facing renewed scrutiny into its lack of diversity. Explore the unique barriers minorities in cybersecurity face and why hiring approaches are ill equipped to address them. By Katie Donegan After the death of George Floyd and other Black citizens at the hands of police, institutions in law enforcement, educational and technological spaces are again being questioned about their
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesExamine the major elements of an active archiving environment, including the kinds of data that you can use in one and resources to help with platform execution. By Paul Kirvan Archiving assumes an organization must protect data but might not actively use it for an extended period. Typical archiving technologies include magnetic tape and cloud-based archives. However, suppose certain data
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesE-commerce sites are being urged to ensure that they have adequate DDoS protection ahead of the vital holiday trading season after attacks ramped up on Black Friday and Cyber Monday By Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks reached their highest levels in November on two of the busiest online trading days of the year, statistics show. On Black
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAny business that is online is susceptible to denial of service attacks and should ensure it has the capability to mitigate such attacks, says an industry practitioner who explains how By Warwick Ashford, Senior analyst Any online business or application is vulnerable to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, according to Harshil Parikh, director of security at software-as-a-service platform firm, Medallia. However, there
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesThe growing prevalence of DDoS attacks combined with the increased reliance on internet connectivity during the pandemic means enterprises can no longer afford to ignore the threat of DDoS attacks. Computer Weekly explores organisations’ perceptions of the risks and best practice for mitigation By Sebastian Klovig Skelton The increased reliance of enterprises on remote working and internet connectivity during the Covid-19 pandemic
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesUse this information to install a ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller. For brevity, in this documentation the ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller is often referred to as the SAS/SATA adapter or the ServeRAID adapter. By Tekmart Support Team The ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller can be installed in the dedicated connector on the system board or PCI riser-card slots . To install a SAS/SATA adapter, complete the following steps:Depending
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is legislation that will update and unify data privacy laws across the European Union. GDPR was approved by the EU Parliament on April 14, 2016 and goes into effect on May 25, 2018. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Trea Lavery GDPR replaces the EU Data Protection Directive of 1995. The new directive focuses on keeping businesses more transparent
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