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Encryption Importance in the Age of Data Breaches

Smart Data Collective

Thus, if businesses want to compete in any industry, protecting their clients’ data should be a top priority. . It was found in 2014 that even the HTTPS protocol has certain limitations. Some of them might even choose one’s competitors. The loopholes. The flaw called Heartbleed had made it vulnerable.

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How To Improve Incident Response Time for Data Breaches

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Take the Marriott data breach in 2014, for example. Before Marriot acquired the Starwood hotel group, Starwood suffered a major data breach of its customer database. Because no internal threat detection mechanisms existed, the malicious actors had access to massive volumes containing personal customer information.

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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

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Based on figures from Statista , the volume of data breaches increased from 2005 to 2008, then dropped in 2009 and rose again in 2010 until it dropped again in 2011. By 2012, there was a marginal increase, then the numbers rose steeply in 2014.

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The Evolving Role Of Big Data In Accident Cost Containment

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The reporting of accidents is crucial in maintaining the collection of this data. OSHA also reported in 2014 that there were nearly 4,000 deaths related to workplace accidents. Data such as this can be used to reduce the frequency and severity of preventable accidents, particularly in the workplace. increased by 5.3%

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Data Privacy in the Digital Age: A Right or a Luxury?

Smart Data Collective

What’s ironic is that very few of the businesses collecting our data actually have the expertise to use it to our benefit, but it’s still valuable for them because it helps them stay ahead of their competitors. For instance, Facebook’s decision to buy WhatsApp in 2014 was based on data collected via the Onavo VPN.

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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

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2007: Amazon launches SimpleDB, a non-relational (NoSQL) database that allows businesses to cheaply process vast amounts of data with minimal effort. An efficient big data management and storage solution that AWS quickly took advantage of. They now have a disruptive data management solution to offer to its client base.

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The End of Agile – Part 1 (A Brief History of Agile)

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In recent years, we have seen substantial pushback on many fronts against Agile as a viable and important project management methodology.

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