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Ransomware can trace its origins to the 1989 PS Cyborg virus, which spread by floppy disk and demanded a $189 payment sent to a PO box for remediation, but it has only been in the last decade that this form of malware-based attack has grown into a global menace. The increased incidence of ransomware is widely

Introduced to consumers in 1991, solid-state drives (SSDs) have undergone a series of enhancements and upgrades since the primitive first models hit the marketplace three decades ago. Today, SSDs have established themselves as invaluable data storage tools, with many consumer and enterprise applications. The modern-day SSD generally uses NAND flash storage to provide a highly

The modern business world is an increasingly data-driven environment. Businesses collect massive amounts of information from their customers: birthdates, shipping addresses, payment card data, purchase history, and other descriptive metadata. Businesses must also maintain critical internal data such as intellectual property, communications, and strategic operational data. Establishing strategies to store, manage, and safeguard valuable information

The contemporary business world devotes a substantial amount of resources to data—more specifically, to the implementation of procedures and accessories devoted to accumulating it, analyzing it, and safeguarding it in a way that conforms to the organization’s various operational requirements. It goes without saying that these tasks should be entrusted to high-quality data storage and

With the cost of TV and film productions routinely running into the eight figures, entertainment companies should do whatever possible to safeguard all the data generated over the course of producing a project. This data includes everything from dailies to call sheets to payroll and private information. If project content or personal private information were

Malware—short for malicious software—is the umbrella term for any type of program created to inflict harm on a computer, server, or network. There is a broad range of variation in the degree of damage malware is capable of causing. While some malware simply causes an annoyance, most are significantly more hazardous, deleting sensitive data and

The healthcare industry is hardly alone in facing serious cybersecurity risks, but it is unique in the consequences it faces for failing to prevent attacks from internet-based criminals. One of the most important of these relates to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which demands that organizations in this field implement strict security

When Joseph Popp wrote and released the world’s first extortion computer virus, the AIDS trojan, he set forth a wave of similar creations capable of crippling the output of even the world’s largest corporations. Ransomware now represents a major threat for most businesses that rely on digital technology to fuel their daily processes. Cyber criminals