A funny thing happened on East Carolina University's journey to creating a data-retention strategy. As part of a compliance project launched one and a half years ago, Brent Zimmer, systems specialist ...

Collecting data allows businesses to glean essential information for improving processes, reducing costs, better serving customers and more. However, it also comes with risk: Every organization that ...

Purging–Purging information is a media sanitization process that protects the confidentiality of information against a laboratory attack. Laboratory attacks involve a threat with the resources and ...

With the emergence of the “data is the new uranium” paradigm, there are some serious downsides to hoarding it. We have all passed those houses in our neighbourhoods. Yards stacked to the fence line ...

Most data management professionals would acknowledge that there is a data life cycle, but it is fair to say that there is no common understanding of what it is. If you Google “Data Life Cycle” you ...

Data predominantly is core to any and every organisation and so does Data Engineering. Especially in financial/banking industry where data’s availability and its fast processing in timely manner is ...

Over the course of the past year, Anonymous has successfully looted personal information—to the tune of e-mail logins and in some instances, even credit card data—from databases belonging to the likes ...

A funny thing happened on East Carolina University’s journey to creating a data-retention strategy. As part of a compliance project launched one and a half years ago, Brent Zimmer, systems specialist ...

Ben Rothke looks at how to destroy digitally stored information. Includes pros and cons of in-house and outsourced data destruction. In the first installment of Why Information Must Be Destroyed I ...