In an era where sensitive data is a prime target for cyberattacks and compliance violations, effective data classification is the critical first step in safeguarding information. Recognizing the ...

Wylie Wong is a freelance journalist who specializes in business, technology and sports. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. It doesn’t take long for a college’s ...

According to a new Forrester report on data classification and discovery, “This is a foundational capability to develop to optimize your efforts for security, privacy and compliance. You can’t protect ...

Data drives business, but data can be a double-edged sword. How can you limit access to that vital enterprise marketing plan, confidential account database or super-secret research report? On the ...

Using confidentiality, integrity, and availability to classify data. To determine the level of protections applied to a system, base your classification on the most confidential data stored in the ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Data classification is an essential pre-requisite to data protection, security and compliance. Firms need to know where their data is and the types of data they hold. Organisations also need to ...

Data sovereignty is a hot topic. For commercial and public sector organisations, compliance to ensure personal data is secure is a primary objective. And that means it cannot be subject to foreign ...

There are two types of businesses in the world today: those that run on data and those that will run on data. Data security now sits at the top of nearly every organization's priority list. But with ...