Chapter 12

Data Security

Abstract

Security is an area neglected by many CEOs and CIOs, sometimes becoming a career-ending issue. The cloud raises the most concerns, although reality is that in-house operations generally have weaker security. This chapter discusses the issues and the remedies to be applied.

Keywords

Archiving; Backup; Cipher; Cloud; Code; Encryption; IRM; RSA; Secure Sockets Layer (SSL); Security; Snapshots; Storage
What is the cost of losing your data? As various instances recently have shown, the cost can run into the millions of dollars, while CEOs and CIOs find the events to be severely career-limiting. With all that hoopla around famous hacks and the pain for the customers whose credit data were compromised, one would think that ...

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