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Why FlashStack Is Right for Your Customers

Pure Storage

During the global pandemic and subsequent evolution of how partners collaborate safely, Pure and Cisco completed a full redesign of FlashStack so that it delivers a modern architecture to maximize the benefit of technology that is sustainable, secure, and simple to manage. Modular components and Evergreen ® architecture reduce e-waste.

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What Is Cyber Extortion? Tips for Securing Your Data

Pure Storage

Once installed, the malware locks critical files and displays a ransom note demanding payment, often in cryptocurrency. Sextortion scams surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, with attackers sending emails claiming to have hacked webcams or email accounts, demanding Bitcoin to delete the alleged footage. million paid to cybercriminals.

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33 Data Privacy Week Comments from Industry Experts in 2023

Solutions Review

The pandemic accelerated the digitalization of customer interactions by several years, and there’s no turning back: we now live in an era of digital. Cyber criminals have become increasingly aggressive and sophisticated, along with their ransomware and other malware. Unfortunately however, today that just isn’t enough.

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45 World Backup Day Quotes from 32 Experts for 2023

Solutions Review

Rob Price, Director, Field Security Office at Snow Software “Banking collapse, volatile economies, pandemics and cybercrime don’t change the fundamentals – data is the lifeblood of every organization and needs to be protected as such. Companies need to adhere to the law, govern data accordingly and have a recovery plan in place.

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25 Data Protection Predictions from 14 Experts for 2022

Solutions Review

“The year 2021 brought us some return to normalcy after the global COVID-19 pandemic turned our world upside down, but a meteoric rise in ransomware attacks combined with an explosion of data – partly due to the continuation of hybrid working trends – will lead businesses to make data protection a major priority in the new year.

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CrowdStrike: Lessons on the Importance of Contracts, Insurance and Business Continuity

IT Governance BC

Back in 2020, most organisations hadn’t planned for a pandemic, for example. Except that, while the attacker is working, they might: Deploy malware; Copy your system data; or Plant a keylogger or a rubber ducky [a USB stick that can log all activity done on a computer]. And if so, how? It’s tricky. And no one would be any the wiser!

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33 Data Protection Predictions from 19 Experts for 2024

Solutions Review

At the same time, shifts to distributed cloud architectures, enabling workloads to move to the edge to the core and back will elevate the need to make private clouds more than just basic virtualized infrastructure.” New open standards released in 2024, such as FOCUS will help to enable this.