You're exposing yourself to significant risk as long as the data on your network (data in transit) and in your storage (data at rest) is not encrypted. That's what a paranoid security specialist will ...

In my last post, I outlined the importance of ensuring that data stored on portable storage devices is encrypted. This is a challenge to some SMBs that may be stumped by the additional steps that data ...

Cloud storage has shifted from a nice-to-have to a basic utility, and the best apps now blend backup, collaboration, and ...

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Starting today, all the data developers write to unstructured storage on Google’s Cloud Platform will now be automatically encrypted on Google’s servers. Google already encrypted data that was written ...

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External hard drives are a great backup and portable storage solution, but if they are used to store sensitive data, they can quickly become a huge security headache. While there is no end of external ...

Data storage security covers a wide landscape, including legal compliance, e-discovery, user access control and the physical security of data storage media. In this article we will focus on ...

Firmware updates won’t address the problem, so admins need to take other action. Self-encrypting solid-state storage drives from Samsung and Crucial are open to tampering that would allow an attacker ...

If you want something done right, do it yourself. That may sound trite, but it rings true as advice for securing files that you’ve stored online. Several recent incidents—including breaches of Dropbox ...