Cloud is “hot”, everyone is talking about it, everyone uses it, everyone keeps data in the “Cloud”. However, do we know what it really means? Let’s look at a cloud without a marketing shell – at the myths and facts. Confusion in the Clouds Where does the Cloud begin, and where does it end? You may say: “Yes, I have access to my data from various locations. I can choose the capacity of services. I [...]

What to do with old hard disks? What to do if your company is going to upgrade its equipment? How to get rid of any useless hardware? However we approach these problems, everything will always concern one important issue – the protection of confidential data. Data security policy Briefly and generally – data security policy is a set of precise rules and procedures created to organize the resources of a company including the issues of [...]

Here are three invented stories, three good endings and three bad ones. It does not matter who you are and what you do – it can happen to you. Let’s say this article can be an anecdote for you – so you can sleep peacefully at night. John Smith, freelance graphic designer John Smith has been a freelance graphic designer for the past seven years. He uses a 1TB HDD to store his work. The [...]

Recently when headlines all around the world have reported about another spectacular hacking attacks of LulzSec or Anonynmous group, we all started to wonder – is data security and personal privacy may really exist in the network? If the Pentagon, CIA, and global corporations like Sony – which have enough money and huge teams of specialists to protect confidential information – cannot feel safe, then who can? For sure you remember Kevin Mitnick. He was [...]

Life is full of imperfections – we all know it. Sometimes bad things happen to people for no particular reason. As they say: “it happens”. All we can do is to find a way to make some unavoidable situations… avoidable. Every kind of hardware has its restrictions, week points, resistance etc. Whatever we do, we cannot be sure that our data is absolutely safe. Even James Bond-like data HQ cannot give us such assurance. So, [...]