A long time ago, when children played with toys that needed no batteries, their parents would tell them if they didn’t behave, the bogeyman would get them. Afterwards, the children grew up and discovered the bogeyman never existed or had died eons earlier. Read more
Bring your own device or BYOD exists practically everywhere, whether your enterprise has a policy for it or not. Any employee with a personal smartphone can and frequently does store some business-related data on it. The ideas behind deliberately encouraging BYOD are often cost reduction (employees fund their devices, rather than looking to the enterprise) and increased flexibility for employees in the way they work. Read more
From time to time, we forget about things, or they become so familiar that we stop paying attention to them. We only notice when they’re gone, like a building that has just been demolished. This happens with disaster recovery too. Read more
Back in 2007, Computerworld published an article about data disaster horror stories. There was an ant-infested hard drive in Thailand: insect-repellent spray killed off the ants and the drive. Read more