Multinational companies often face challenges in enforcing claims against their employees and agents located in foreign jurisdictions. In December 2012, a federal appeals court decision made enforcement a bit easier when a company goes after employees who commit cyber theft beyond U.S. borders. Check out the guest post by Robert
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Driving Value from New Data
One of the best ways to improve the power of your analytics is to include some totally new information. The use of new information can enable huge leaps in the effectiveness, predictive power, and accuracy of your analytics. Check out the column by Bill Franks, Chief Analytics Officer for Teradata’s
Beyond Quality and Security – The Importance of Establishing Control Points for Information Management across the Organization
Strong data management doesn’t just begin on the back end, when the data actually hits a database. It begins long before that, early in the data lifecycle, and across many areas of the organization. Check out the guest column by Micheline Casey where she highlights the importance of establishing data
Archiving to the Cloud
At a time when the world is reeling under a `data deluge’, cloud archiving can provide an Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) framework for small, medium and large enterprises to manage the complexity and the risk of storing vital information. Learn more about `Archiving to the Cloud' in the article, which
Considerations for Using Tokenization to Mask Your Sensitive Data
When companies think of protecting sensitive data, they are most likely to think of encryption as the means to obfuscate the real data. Tokenization can be a good alternative to encryption in some cases, or it can be a complementary solution that works with encryption to provide a very high
10 Reasons to Use Data Masking Products
Data masking products have become an integral part of corporate world ever since the ease with which confidential data could be protected. The necessity to mask data has become a high stakes game of having to stay one step ahead of the pack with the consequences of not keeping your
What’s So Different About Big Data?
The volume of data is expanding so quickly that we can’t handle it in conventional ways. IT professionals who understand this, and learn how to adapt to the new ways, will be much more successful than those who don’t. More>>
Big Data and Cloud – Managing the Explosion of Data
A data explosion is occurring in the world. As more and more data is being collected, the challenge is how to use it effectively and securely. Check out the guest column by Ajay Budhraja where he talks about real time integration and data access through Big Data and Cloud solutions.
Database Archiving for Long-term Data Retention
Practical Lessons from Recent Data Security Breaches
Recent data breaches at popular Internet sites, including the theft of millions of user passwords by hackers at business networking site LinkedIn and dating site eHarmony, show the consequences businesses are likely to face from unauthorized access to private data. Though the exact costs of these breaches are difficult to determine,