Yesterday, the post was about cyber-attack recovery. Talking about the need for a more comprehensive recovery mechanism and approach than just “restore to the most recent backup.” As mentioned, this also applies to failover systems. In many cases, people will put in failover systems (or cloud-based services that are highly unlikely to go down) and figure they’re covered. But the […]
Security
Cyber-Attack Recovery – Are You Ready?
Many times when folks are planning for recovery of a system, it’s because they anticipate that the system will crash or will be unavailable in a fairly traditional way. (Is there a traditional way for a system to crash???) However, as I was reading a post about the premise that the “Majority of banks [are] still vulnerable to cyber attacks” […]
When Does AI Start Threatening Data Security?
There was an interesting post in the Daily Mail about AI and phishing attacks. Essentially, they were saying that future cyber attacks for phishing and such could be driven by AI. AI could get so intelligent that it was able to assume the identity of people you work with and are used to corresponding with, could mimic them based on […]
Will the GDPR Lead To More Data Silos?
When I first started reading this post, “The battle for control of data could be just starting” I was thinking that it was interesting that some services were feeling the pinch to get their data out of “the big guys” in terms of awareness and IP surrounding accounts and people. Basically, some companies are re-thinking marketing engines and services and […]
PowerBI, Using that Data, IoT and the Borg
Yesterday Ben posted about where, exactly, the responsibility for security lays. Is it with the DBA? The network team? Is it with the person or team that could have prevented the latest breach? It’s a great question. Make sure you check out the post if you haven’t seen it yet. (Here’s a link) As we continue this revolution into more […]
Security Ignorance is Bliss – But Not in a Good Way
I’ve been poking around more and more about security, about best practices and about data protection. I have spent a good deal of time watching the tried and true “Securing Your SQL Server” type sessions and trying to understand what is critical and what you can do about it. Security expert Duncan McAlynn (LinkedIn) sent me over a great video […]