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Fleet Management and Big Data: Points to Consider

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According to a forecast by IDC and Seagate Technology, the global data sphere will grow more than fivefold in the next seven years. The total amount of new data will increase to 175 zettabytes by 2025 , up from 33 zettabytes in 2018. This ever-growing volume of information has given rise to the concept of big data.

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

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After a marginal increase in 2015, another steep rise happened in 2016 through 2017 before the volume decreased in 2018 and rose in 2019, and dropped again in 2020. These numbers show that the volume of data breaches may not be continuously increasing, but they never go away. million (from 35.7 million in 2008). million (from 197.6

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Critical Importance of a VPN in the Age of Data Breaches

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The growing number of data leaks that we see each day is a testament of this. In 2018, over 500 million personal records were exposed with data leaks. As our dependence on the Internet grows, it is becoming more important than ever to think about web security. The number of exposed records has increased at an alarming rate.

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How To Improve Incident Response Time for Data Breaches

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This breach was not discovered until 2018. Granting the malicious actors open access to more and more data as the Marriott hotel group was doing business. Had this data breach been detected earlier, countermeasures could have been put into place and protected many of their clients.

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7 Advantages of Using Encryption Technology for Data Protection

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In one case occurring in June 2018, the University of Texas’s MD Anderson Cancer Center received a $4.3 However, according to a 2018 North American report published by Shred-It, the majority of business leaders believe data breach risks are higher when people work remotely.

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Global Hospitals Embark On A Worldwide Medical Data Initiative

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Challenges of using big data in healthcare. Secure data management is key to mass utilization. In fact, on 25 May, 2018, the new European Global Data Protective Requirement legislation (GDPR) came into force.

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VPNs Are Crucial Privacy Protection Tools in the Age of Big Data

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The driving force behind this trend is mostly down to the rising concern people have over their online privacy and the unregulated data collection that has been going on silently in the background for many years.

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