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