Europol mandated to delete all personal data from non-criminal records
Privacy advocates win as EDPS orders European law enforcement to comply with data protection legislation
On January 3, 2022, Europol was ordered to delete its massive stores of personal data collected from police agencies across the EU over the last six years. The order was delivered by the Euro... Read more
IKEA’s email system riddled with cyberattacks
IKEA has recently been tackling phishing attacks towards its employees. The attacker uses stolen reply-chain emails to lure employees into a false sense of security and click malicious links.
Cyberattacks are becoming an everyday occurrence, and organizations worldwide are falling prey to meticu... Read more
Veeam Updates Extend Support for Cloud Adoption and Data Protection
New features include cloud-native capabilities with increased support for Kubernetes, Red Hat and more.
Veeam announced the new update to its flagship product, Veeam Backup & Replication. They also released multiple updates to its product portfolio that deliver enhanced cloud-native capabili... Read more
Tech giants collaborate to establish Trusted Cloud Principles
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce, Atlassian, SAP, and Cisco combined efforts to establish Trusted Cloud Principles. This collaboration fulfills the companies’ promise of safeguarding the rights of their users.
The tech giants established the Trusted Cloud Principles to protect the in... Read more
Dell: companies manage 10x more data than they did five years ago
The company leveraged the report's publication to announce a suite of new security products and services.
This week Dell released its 2021 Global Data Protection Index (GDPI). The report shows that organizations face several data protection challenges driven by the constant threat of ransomware ... Read more
Staples Solutions structures its data protection strategy with Veeam
We write about the importance of having a backup and disaster recovery policy on a regular basis. But what does that mean in practice? We spoke to Aleh Sadaunichy, Infrastructure Solutions Architect at Staples Solutions, who fairly recently implemented a new approach using Veeam.
Staples Solutio... Read more
Marvell launches the first PCIe 5 SSD controller
Touting enhanced security, data protection, and cloud-optimization, Marvell’s PCIe 5 SSD offers sequential read output up to to 14GB/sec.
Its performance is two times better than the PCIe 4.0 SSD controllers, and it comes in two models the MV-SS1333, which is sixteen channels, and the MV-SS133... Read more
Europe’s GDPR needs to be overhauled, says its chief architect
The woman who led the development of the wide-ranging law now says it badly needs rewriting.
Former EU justice chief Viviane Reding has called for a revision of Europe’s data protection regime, according to a report in POLITICO. Her calls for the legal overhaul come just three years after the... Read more
European Parlement votes for infringement procedure against Ireland
The European Parliament has voted in favour of a resolution calling on the European Commission to open an infringement procedure against Ireland. The procedure concerns the country’s failure to enforce the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
A landmark judicial ruling invalidated the EU... Read more
HYCU’s Data Protection Platform adds Kubernetes support
HYCU announced this past weekend the first instances of support for Kubernetes clusters. They are available through its data protection platform, hosted in the cloud. Veep of products for HYCU, Subbiah Sundaram, says that the multi-tenant HYCU Protégé service supports several other platforms, in ... Read more