Best Practices in Data Storage: How Long Should Data be Stored?

You can store all your data for some amount of time, and you can store some of your data for an infinite amount of time, but you can’t store all your data forever. Not even a company the size of Google has the storage capacity for all that data retention. This means you must decide which […]

Top Regulatory Compliance Frameworks for 2021

GDPR. DSS. NIST. These are just some of the acronymous names of major regulatory compliance frameworks that organizations need to know today. With so many arcane acronyms with which to contend, it can be hard to keep track of which regulatory frameworks apply to what. If you’re struggling to keep your compliance rules straight, this […]

How Telco Firms Can Improve Compliance and Decision-Making without Stifling Innovation

In the telecommunications field, you’re faced with two challenges: making the right business decisions in a rapidly-changing environment, and adhering to regulations (especially those related to data privacy). Not making the right business decisions means that you’re not competitive, yet regulatory non-compliance is expensive, not to mention damaging to your reputation. There is a solution […]

Regulations Remain Top Security Challenge for IT Professionals

To the consternation of IT professionals everywhere, data security challenges continue to evolve each year. Precisely’s Annual Security Survey for 2019 highlighted the challenge of the adoption of cloud services as well as the increasingly distributed nature of data. Even in the midst of emerging issues, some challenges remain constant. For example, regulatory compliance continues […]