Data Protection stories

While COVID-19 marked 2020 and 2021, 2022 is set to be a year of recovery with organisations settling into new ways of working.>>

Acquisitions, AI and automation, and privacy-focused legislation will shape the data protection sector in 2022, according to new predictions from Veeam Software.>>

"Barracuda Email Protection offers customers complete protection by combining gateway defence, API-based inbox defence, incident response, data protection, and user security awareness capabilities.">>

Cybersecurity is treated a lot like aviation security. Breaches that don't result in catastrophic consequences don't stay in the national psyche for very long, in much the same way near-misses in aviation don't invite much public scrutiny.>>

As organisations become more data-driven, they store more data in on-prem and cloud stores that employees can access from anywhere with phones, tablets and laptops.>>

In 2018, a new unprecedented data privacy law took the EU and, by association, the rest of the world by storm.>>

Data protection company Barracuda has recorded rapid growth in its managed service provider (MSP) business, with the acquisition of SKOUT cybersecurity playing a pivotal role in providing new opportunities. >>

This confirms that Acquia Drupal Cloud has achieved the Australian government security status of Protected on selected deployments.>>

The uncertainty of the global pandemic has had an unexpected upside for New Zealand government agencies, with 83% of New Zealanders seeing their government as being generally trustworthy.>>

Despite best intentions, most New Zealanders overlook key steps to protect sensitive data.>>

"CrowdStrike will be setting a new standard for endpoint-based data protection by connecting zero trust enforcement to the device, the user identity and, with this acquisition, the data users are accessing and using.”>>

New research has found 40% of organisations have experienced a cloud-based data breach in the past 12 months. >>

By putting data at the centre of cybersecurity infrastructures, enterprises can achieve consistent enforcement anywhere their people work.>>

Cloudera is bringing new data protection capabilities to customers in Australia with Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Public Cloud Regional Control Plane.>>

Customer demand is driving a mandate for digital ethics in businesses, resulting in more legislation to protect data privacy and data security.>>

In a statement the company said these announcements indicate a major shift in McAfee’s strategy to deliver an integrated and intuitive online protection service to protect people rather than point products that secure devices.>>

"With the challenges wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, and Australian businesses were right to prioritise the shift to remote working. Now though, the time has come to take action and redress the balance.”>>

Integrations between security providers are important because of an increasing demand for real-time insights, cybersecurity protection, situational awareness and the ability to perform accurate and fast investigations.>>

“Barracuda Data Inspector is next-generation data security that makes it easy to identify and secure an organisation's most critical information.”>>

"We believe that by offering strategic protection plans, we can support customers at any stage of a ransomware attack - and do our best to help prevent it altogether with Commvault Protection Review.">>

"We're proud to offer Fivetran Business Critical to help our customers keep their data protected and manage a myriad of security requirements, while reducing the complexity of their modern data stack.”>>

“The IT world is undeniably hybrid and not in “transition” before the data centre goes away," the report notes.>>

"The Arcserve solution, powered by Nutanix, helps deliver simplicity, resilience, and peace of mind to our customers by helping them to stay ahead of security vulnerabilities and ransomware in a hybrid multi-cloud era.">>

In order to highlight the importance of properly scoping cloud environments, PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) have come together to release a joint bulletin.>>