Virtualization has played a critical role in enterprise IT over the past several years by allowing businesses to rethink data center design for optimization. While consolidating hardware allows for greater optimization, using virtualization also create new risks. According to ComputerWeekly editor K...

With data entering and exiting organizations from every angle, it can be difficult to pinpoint where the data security risks lie. Fortunately, a recent MeriTalk survey of government IT managers outlined the most frequent sources of data loss. What may be surprising is that trends like bring-your-own...

The value of physical data backup methods is that they are frequently considered more secure than their virtual or web-connected counterparts. However, that logic may be giving organizations a false sense of security and raising the risk of information loss. One financial institution recently learn...

Some business leaders may be surprised to discover that the biggest risk facing organizational data is not from individual hackers or even large groups of cybercriminals. Those high-profile breaches do have a tendency to make headlines, but there is a much quieter threat that all organizations must ...

Alarming Research According to the 2010 Annual Study: U.S. Cost of a Data Breach by Poneman Institute, a Michigan-based research center that studies privacy, data protection and information security policy, security breaches cost $214 per compromised record and average $7.2 million per data breach ...