Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud

Last year, I was asked to co-write a book with Ravi Das on risks and data protection in the public…

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Backup Servers and Malicious Attacks

Many years ago when I was still a Unix system administrator, some midrange systems manager got the bright idea to…

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Basics – The FARR Model

Public Cloud is one of those things that works great until it doesn’t. Now, there’s a lot of reasons why…

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10 from 10: 10 years of blogging, 10 years of epic data protection changes

Some blogging history On 25 January 2009, I published the first article on what was then the NetWorker Blog: How…

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Hello, 2019

Hello, and welcome to 2019. I’m still getting my head around that. It still seems that it was only a…

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A Few Considerations Around Data Breaches in Australia

On 22 February 2018, Australia’s mandatory breach notification system was instituted, requiring businesses suffering (many types of) data breaches to…

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Data Protection Central 18.1

In the huge round of updates in June/July, one of the products you should be using more frequently, Data Protection…

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Long Term Retention: Convenient Now, or Later?

“Oxford economics historian Avner Offer believes that we’re hopelessly myopic. When left to our own devices, we’ll choose what’s nice…

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Basics – Backup, Archive, and HSM

Backup, archive and HSM are funny old concepts in technology and business. We’ve been doing backup for literally decades, and…

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The House That No-One Built

And there she lullèd me asleep, And there I dreamed—Ah! woe betide!— The latest dream I ever dreamt On the…

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