#Adrian Briscoe
Managing five risks of the BYOD trend
For many employees, the line between work and personal life has grown increasingly murky. Many now use their own tech gadgets to do business as often as they use company property. On the one hand, that can save the company money on hardware and make employees more efficient – but it also presents serious security risks.
How to protect your data in a foreign land
If you’re escaping the winter blues by heading overseas and plan to take your mobile phone, tablet PC or laptop along, there are few things you should watch out for. From sand and saltwater to pickpockets and poorly protected wireless networks, many dangers can befall your electronic companion.
Damage control: What to do if your business data disappears
Any business that loses customer records, financial data or even a day’s worth of orders will experience some degree of productivity loss and may also face potential non-compliance penalties, missed sales opportunities, damage to reputation, and weakened customer confidence. Here’s how to protect your business.
Could your business’ data also be published on Wikileaks?
If you don’t want to risk having your sensitive business data leaked, you need to take a serious look at how your company disposes of old PC’s, hard drives, servers and other storage devices.
BYOD security strategies for small business
Whether or not your company embraces the bring-your-own-device approach, don’t ignore the data integrity and retention implications of all the personal smartphones and tablets showing up in the workplace.
Don’t put all your faith in the cloud
There are many easy and cost effective ways to store and access data from multiple devices in public and private storage clouds, but small businesses still need to remain diligent and follow basic data backup practices if they want to keep their data safe and accessible.
How to ensure blue skies for your cloud computing experience
Marketing has succeeded in spreading the word about cloud computing, but very few people can explain what the cloud actually represents or what it means to them. Here’s the questions you should be asking your service provider, to ward off any grey clouds on the horizon.
Top 10 data disaster stories of 2011
Information management, data recovery, and legal technology provider Kroll Ontrack has announced its annual Top 10 Data Disasters for 2011. From human error to natural disaster, this annual list of real data loss situations reveals data loss is often inevitable, but not necessarily permanent.
Avoid common data nightmares these holidays
If you’re taking off for a well-earned rest this holiday season, here are some ways to avoid a total nightmare in managing your data wherever in the world your travels may take you.
Spring cleaning your devices? Make sure your data is erased
If you’re planning to deploy new IT gear this summer, have you thought about how best to recycle your current electronic devices, to protect critical business and personal data?
Keep your data cool this summer
Adrian Briscoe blogs about protecting your business data over the warm summer months. “The new calendar year typically begins with a significant spike in data loss incidents due to extreme seasonal weather and a lack of sufficient backups. Indeed, the cyclone and bushfire season can be as destructive to computer data as it is to property.”
Is your information management a time bomb?
Adrian Briscoe looks at the many reasons to update your information management strategy. “A reliable information management strategy can both maximise accessibility and minimise risk, reducing potential headaches as businesses of all sizes face compliance, security and legal business requirements.”
Planning for and surviving a data disaster
Do you have a plan for surviving a data disaster in your business? If not, Kroll Ontrack’s Adrian Briscoe has this advice.
A day in the life of a data recovery expert
Forgot to schedule that important backup and lost all your data? Find out how the person you call when it goes pear shaped spends their day in this diary of a data recovery expert by Adrian Briscoe, General Manager – Asia Pacific, Kroll Ontrack