Data Protection vs Data Security Many people use the terms protection and security interchangeably, but while they share some similarities, they entail distinct processes and outcomes. In the digital world, protection and security have more complex meanings as data has unique attributes and challenges: how do you protect and secure 1s and 0s? Data protection…
Cloud this. Cloud that. It’s all you hear nowadays. “I’m in a Cloud.” “We store our data in a Cloud.” “Our customers access us from a Cloud.” When did Clouds stop being fluffy, white, and gaseous and start working in the IT industry? What is a Cloud Provider? A Cloud Provider is a company that…
The traditional view of Business Continuity Mortality, taxes, and data growth. That’s the world we live in. In the future, we all hope to live longer, pay less tax, and manage data growth effectively. The “value” of your data will never be fully appreciated if it lives in perpetual, unrefined storage. So, how can you…
How does data become “unstructured”? With the correct processes, policies, and procedures in place, one would assume that data would always be “structured”. This, however, is often not the case. So how does data lose its structure, despite careful planning? Simple—your business is full of humans. Regardless of what instructions they are given, and what…
Building a Next Generation Data Centre (NGDC) is fast becoming key to the digital transformation that more and more companies are now pursuing. The NGDC embraces digital transformation by delivering a cloud-first architecture that is designed to be more adaptable and responsive to the demands of users. Digital transformation for a business demands that the…
The Rise of Ransomware Ransomware. Malicious software which encrypts files on a system without the user’s consent and then demands payment to release the information. In the past year, Ransomware has made the headlines on numerous occasions as the primary malicious threat facing organisational IT systems. The primary reason being Ransomware’s new-found ability to rapidly…
The Growth of Hybrid Clouds Businesses have experienced an unprecedented digital disruption in the past ten years. The arrival of the commercial Internet in the early nineties and the dawn of web 2.0 in 2004 which created the social web, has created an environment where the rate of change in the digital space is exponential…
Multi Cloud Environments Create Flexibility and Complexity The unprecedent rate of change in today’s online world has forced organisations to get creative when it comes to creating applications and services to meet the demands of the constant state of flux they find themselves operating in. Aptly named digital disruption, this ‘new normal’ compels organisations to…
The Traditional View of Business Continuity Business has always seen data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity as a necessary evil. A cost for doing business but a cost which provides no real return on investment. While this may have been true during the last century when organisations were not so reliant on their IT…
If you operate a business in the great state of Queensland, you have certain statutory and legislative data protection obligations you need to meet and adhere to. In this blog post, we are going to highlight the relevant legislation and show you how Digital Sense can help you remain secure and compliant. Queensland Legislation on…