Archive for January 2017

In a survey of 200 companies, more than $26.5 billion in revenue is lost each year from system downtime. The most concerning part of this trend is the fact that most of these system errors were entirely preventable. System downtime plans and methods to avoid downtime are still rare to find in many businesses across the…

“My data is 100% safe and secure in the cloud”, said no one ever, except possibly the slick brochure from the cloud service provider. McAfee Labs report entitled “2017 Threats Predictions” focuses largely on cloud threats. The report notes: “Increasing amounts of sensitive data and business-critical processes are shifting to public and hybrid clouds. Attackers…