We create massive amounts of data daily, from the exercise stats compiled by our wearable devices to smart meters used at our homes to reduce expense consumption to maintenance statistics of critical systems in industrial settings. If data creation continues at its present rate, more than a yottabyte (a million trillion megabytes) will likely be generated annually by 2030. Even though big data is moving power behind modern, digital-first organizations, an average company uses only a fraction of the data they collect. According to a recent survey by VMware, 83% of business leaders believe that...

It’s another new year and hence another occasion to predict how the cybersecurity landscape will evolve in 2023. Once again, it will be challenging, as most every year is, and could wind up being an unusually difficult 12 months because of multiple headwinds. One is that it has become clear that a huge increase in remote working is here to stay, if only because so many companies have adopted a durable hybrid policy – one that blends remote work with work in the office some weekdays. This is good for workers, who prefer to commute to work less, but not for corporate cybersecurity because remote...

2022 saw privacy truly take hold in the U.S., while Europe buttressed its position as the global leader and other regions worked to get up-to-speed with new or amended laws. U.S. Privacy in 2022 Laws passed in 2021 and 2022 meant many U.S. companies spent the past year preparing for new privacy requirements that came into effect on January 1st in California and Virginia, with more to come out of Colorado and Connecticut in July, and Utah on December 31st. The new laws put new categories of personal data in scope (employee and B2B in California), bring new data subject rights, and GDPR-like...