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Articles for the keywords: encryption
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19 May 2013
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Top Ten Articles for last few Issues [31015]
Vol 183 Issues 1 and 2; Vol 182 Issues 1, 2, 3 and 4 ; Vol 181 Issues 3 and 4
We track how frequently each article is viewed on the web site to determine which the readers consider the most important. For last week, the top 10 articles were:
- Top 10 Programming Skills That Will Get You Hired
- Workers Are Stressed, Overworked, Underappreciated
- Is Big Data Big Trouble For State, Local Governments?
- The Two Keys to Driving IT Innovation
- What's The Secret to a Great Password?
- Pros and Cons of Backup Tape Encryption
- Boston Hospital CIO Reflects After Bombing
- Postcards from Tomorrow's Data Centers
- How to Get IT, Security and the Business on the Same Risk Page
- A CIO's First 100 Days: Seven Steps to Success
The longer version of this article has list of top ten articles for the last 8 weeks.
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13 May 2013
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Seven Steps to Hinder Hackers: Antivirus Just Isn't Enough [31087]
IT Business Edge, May 13th, 2013
"When hackers broke in to the New York Times' network, evaded its antivirus software and began plundering its computer systems, it highlighted a rather uncomfortable truth: Antivirus software is not that good at keeping systems secure.
That means that any company that relies on an antivirus package to secure its endpoints is exposing itself to a huge security risk. 'To some extent the problem is the fault of the security industry who have been selling these products,' says Graham Cluley, a senior technical consultant at antivirus vendor Sophos..."
- antivirus software
- personal firewall
- encryption
- update management software
- DLP software
- password manager
- training
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12 May 2013
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Pros and Cons of Backup Tape Encryption [30936]
SearchDataBackup, April 29th, 2013
"IT security is arguably more important than it has ever been. As such, administrators have been conditioned to encrypt data whenever possible," comments Brien Posey in SearchDataBackup.
"Even so, the 'encrypt everything' plan might not always be the best course of action, especially when it comes to your backups.
Before I begin debating the advantages and disadvantages of backup encryption, it is important to point out that there are many different forms of backup encryption. Backup encryption could refer to disk-based storage encryption, encrypted backup tapes, network transport encryption, or a number of other encryption types. For the purposes of this article, I will focus on encrypting backup tapes..."
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29 Apr 2013
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Secure Backups Require More Than Just Encrypting Data [30852]
SearchDataBackup, April 29th, 2013
"When it comes to secure backups, your thoughts might automatically turn to various forms of backup encryption. Although encryption can go a long way toward securing your backups, there is a lot more to backup security than just encrypting data.
Some backup software products use a service account, which is a user account that is used to provide the security context under which a backup is run. Administrators should take steps to keep service accounts from becoming a potential security hole, because service accounts typically have access to the same data that the backup software is backing up..."
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29 Apr 2013
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Pros and Cons of Backup Tape Encryption [30901]
SearchDataBackup, April 29th, 2013
"IT security is arguably more important than it has ever been. As such, administrators have been conditioned to encrypt data whenever possible. Even so, the "encrypt everything" plan might not always be the best course of action, especially when it comes to your backups.
Before I begin debating the advantages and disadvantages of backup encryption, it is important to point out that there are many different forms of backup encryption. Backup encryption could refer to disk-based storage encryption, encrypted backup tapes, network transport encryption, or a number of other encryption types. For the purposes of this article, I will focus on encrypting backup tapes..."
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