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…
Category: Best Practice
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….
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…