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Data Classification: Enabling Compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, & More

Learn how Fortra's Data Classification Suite can facilitate compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, and other prominent data privacy regulations.
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Beyond Red vs. Blue: Bring on the Purple Team

What Is a Purple Team?In cybersecurity, a purple team is a group that combines offensive red team capabilities with defensive blue team insights to provide a truly collaborative, well-balanced security posture. “Purple teaming” is more than a work group; it should be a philosophy.If you’re familiar with offensive security, red and blue team structures are well known. To review:Red Teams: Perform...
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The MedusaLocker ransomware gang is hiring penetration testers

MedusaLocker, the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that has been active since 2019 is openly recruiting for penetration testers to help it compromise more businesses. As Security Affairs reports, MedusaLocker has posted a job advert on its dark web leak site, which pointedly invites pentesters who already have direct access to corporate networks to make contact."If you don't have access,...
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What Is ISO 27001 and How Can It Help Your Organization?

What Is ISO 27001?ISO 27001, also known as ISO/IEC 27001, is a widely recognized international standard that defines best practices for implementing and managing information security in an Information Security Management System (ISMS).Since it was first developed, the goal of the standard has been to provide a model for establishing, implementing,...
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Moving Away from Cloud: Making the Case for Hybrid IT

HelpSystems’ Per Bauer discusses article touting a move back from the cloud and makes case for hybrid IT spend to drive costs down.HelpSystems’ Per Bauer discusses article touting a move back from the cloud and makes case for hybrid IT spend to drive costs down.
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How to Answer Key Capacity Planning Strategy Questions

Anyone who works for a large organization knows that July isn’t just a time for fireworks and BBQs. It’s also when you plan your budget for the next fiscal year. If you work in IT, you know you’re always expected to have an answer for everything. But when it comes to planning your budget, there are really only two questions that need to be asked. Do you have enough resources on hand for the...
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The True Cost of Workload-Related Outages

Underestimating the consequences of downtime can be hugely detrimental to your productivity. Accurately calculating those costs won’t just prevent disasters, but also help you effectively manage your capacity planning efforts.
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Tips for Managing Physical, Virtual, Cloud Environments

IT infrastructure is complex today. On-prem. Off-prem. Virtualization. The cloud. It’s up to IT to build this infrastructure, then distribute resources from its many miscellaneous parts to various services in the most efficient way possible. With so many different environments to track—many of them walled off from one another in data silos—service issues can be difficult to diagnose and...
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How to Do Cloud Capacity Planning

Operating in the cloud can have some great benefits compared to operating with on-premises software. That’s why surveyed IT professionals predict 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by the year 2020.