Tag Archives: data

Compression of Network Data and Performance Issues

Network-Compression. Today’s networks will always have data limitations. Data sets continue to grow on pace with increasing bandwidth availability making network-compression an important service in improving network performance. The network-compression used is actually a combination of compression and caching. It has been found that TCP rate control combined with network-compression provides the best value in terms of optimizing… Read More »

IDaaS, Cloud Data Storage, and Cloud Collaboration

IDaaS, Cloud Data Storage, and Cloud Collaboration The emergence of wide-spread Internet access combined with the development of cloud based infrastructure, platform, and Software as a Service (SaaS), has created an environment where organizations and normal everyday users have access to vast amounts of computing resources and applications at the click of a button. These cloud resources are… Read More »

Guidelines for Media and Data Sanitizing

Guidelines for Media and Data Sanitizing When information systems are taken offline and retired, great care must be taken to ensure media that stored the data in the system remains protected through the retirement process. If media used is going to be removed and discarded, or re-purposed, organizations must ensure data that was stored on the media is… Read More »

Safe Harbor and State of Texas Breach Notification Laws

The Concept of Safe Harbor The concept of “Safe Harbor” refers to specific actions, example; encryption of private data, that an individual or an organization can take to show a good-faith effort in complying with the law. This good-faith effort provides a person or organization “Safe Harbor” against prosecution under the law (Grama, 2015, pg.253). The State of… Read More »