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Reckoning with the SolarWinds News
If you listen to one podcast this weekend, make it The Daily’s episode from today, December 16: “Hacked, Again.” The episode does a great job overviewing the massive cyber-attack story dominating data security news cycles, which we touched on in last week’s post. Put...
Timeless Security Is More Critical Now Than Ever
It’s harder to steal a diamond necklace when it’s inside a house then when it’s lying on the ground outside the house. It’s even harder to steal that same necklace if it’s inside a safe in the house. The same is true with data: it’s harder to steal it when it’s not...
The Unknown Costs of Data Breach
It cost The Home Depot $17.5 million this week – not to mention expenses paid in internal investigation, PR, and unquantifiable harm to their brand and public image – after they reached a settlement with the Maryland Attorney General. The settlement stems from a 2014...
Happy Thanksgiving
We in the United States are observing our Thanksgiving holiday, first celebrated 399 years ago in Plymouth Colony, now the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts. It has become a collective time of reflection, a time to count our blessings, and to share our gratitude for...
Why Reliable Solutions Are Vital
In our first blog post, we wrote about what it means for a company and its products to be “mission ready.” Among the many requirements of mission readiness is the need for devices to operate continuously and be reliable 24/7. After all, when the U.S. military...
Where Are Our Products Made?
A question that we often get from our customers is where our products are made. We know that this is an important question—especially when you consider that our products play a critical role in protecting our customers’ data whether that’s securing our nation’s...
Why Many Are Choosing NVMe SSDs
While it’s been 40 years since flash memory was invented by Toshiba, it’s been over the past two decades that we’ve begun to use it in our everyday lives: thumb drives and compact flash cards (the predecessors to SD cards) entered the market around the year 2000....
What to Do After Your Data Is Breached
The recent news of data breach at Barnes & Noble should come as a surprise to no one given the many recent headlines of similar data security and privacy failures. It happens with such regularity, that some people seem to have given up trying to keep track of what...
Removable Storage and the Cloud
If you’re a business in 2020, there’s a very good chance you store some or all of your data in the cloud. Depending on what you do, that might be a very sound approach to navigating the topsy-turvy waters of data management these days. We’ve talked about the cloud...