There was a time when the Oil companies ruled the globe. Oil was considered as an immense untapped valuable asset or valuable resource. It was the key functionality of everything right from the government to local companies. Without it, the global economies would shrink and all the progress would stop. Time has changed, and we…

Picture this. It’s Sunday morning and you’re hanging out at your nearby café utilizing the free Wi-Fi to ramp up with a couple of assignments you couldn’t exactly get to during your bustling week. Sound commonplace? This is an average situation for a large number of us, however, did you realize you may be uninformed…

A Data breach has many repercussions that seep down in the organization hierarchy and cause a lot of harm to the company’s reputation amongst other things. It erodes customer loyalty and destroys brand reputation with a massive blow to the financial arm. A large cross-section of industry executives believe that cyber security threats with weak…

Businesses that experience the full gamut of technological expertise are sure to open up vistas of new business models in a cutting-edge environment. This enables growth in various ways. With opening up of business by data analytics and myriad data sources, one can only expect businesses to gallop to new frontiers of service offerings and…

After a revealing data breach, I was aghast with disbelief. At that point when I heard the news trickling in on the credit information which stands exposed, my first question was whether I was one of the large pool of potential exploited people whose individual data could be in the hands of the scammers? What…

Wanna Cry is a ransomware strain that spreads via spam or phishing emails. It also spreads via downloads, infecting any node thus penetrating the network. The infection methods are also very imaginative with many ways that your computer can get infected. Once the ransomware gets access into your computer network, it locks all your files…

Data Privacy and Data Security are interlinked concepts and though not realms entirely different from each other, they have subtle differences that identify one from the other. Understanding their working will enable you to see how they complement each other. Data Privacy: Data Privacy encompasses the individuals who are authorized to manipulate data and nobody…

Personal Data is priceless and hackers keep no stone unturned in gaining data and using it for their selfish means. As technology and data collection falls over itself with inventions and best practices in procuring these humongous data clusters, can hackers be far behind. As customers, we all share a unified responsibility in helping protect…

It has been seen on many occasions that when an organization says that their Data Security is very secure with no data leaks, it is proved otherwise. Massive volumes of data are compromised every month suggesting the opposite. This goes to show that businesses are slow to react to the upcoming cyber crime threats and…

There is no business irrespective of size and breadth, that is unknown to a data breach which is continuing to make headlines as they are trespassing major sites in the retail store market. It is the small businesses that are largely affected by a data breach, while it is quite surprising that the small businesses…