How do you solve Protective Dissonance?

There’s a term in psychology you may have heard of – cognitive dissonance. It refers to having contradictory beliefs, or…

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Introductory Considerations to Cyber Resiliency

It’s fair to say that a significant number of my customer conversations this year have been centred around cyber resiliency.…

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Data Protection and the Cloud Shared Responsibility Model

The shared responsibility model in public cloud is well known. But does it work for data protection? In sort, no – there’s some work to do there.

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Of Cascading Failures

I got a real-world reminder in cascading failures this weekend, and that’s as good a time as any for me…

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Cyber Vaults need Robust Recovery Processes and Documentation

Let’s start with processes When I worked for BHP Information Technology in the 90s, there were travel policies that pretty…

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Why Data Classification in Backup is Pointless

You know that saying, “Data is the new oil”? If you work in IT and haven’t heard of it, I’d…

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The 9 Essential Properties of Backup

Introduction What goes into making a backup? What are the traits that essential in order for it to be something…

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Data Protection in 2020: Reflections

Or, the world is burning but data protection goes on. Did someone get the license plate of the year that…

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Backup Administrators Should Stick to Their Knitting

How often do you hear the term “stick to your knitting!” these days? It seems whenever a celebrity or sportsperson…

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I’d like to speak to your CIPO, please

Chief Information Officers. Chief Information Security Officers. You see those roles, and variants of them advertised all the time. And…

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