Risks of External USB Drive Backup

Risks of External USB Drive Backup

I was discussing backup solutions the other day with a smaller client, and the topic came up about why a cloud backup subscription is needed when they have been able to use their USB drive backups so for with no issue.  While I have used USB drives and even DVDs...

Mal – The Contagious Data Loss Grelin

He’s Mal the Maleficent, the perennial purveyor of disease, the one among the Six Data Loss Gremlins who enjoys mischief for the sheer pleasure of harming others. A trickster and a thief, Mal is unrelenting in his attempts to steal or destroy data. He employs all...

Foiling Klepto, the Sticky-Fingered Data Loss Gremlin

Meet Klepto, one of the Eight Data Loss Gremlins that can bring your business to its knees if you let them. Klepto does his best to grab his unfair share of the $445 billion that companies worldwide lose each year to cybercrime. Klepto is a real sicko. Greedy and...

Defeating Dino, the Aging Data Loss Gremlin

As the oldest of the Data Loss Gremlins, Dino looks banged up and harmless but in truth, he’s an old-school trickster with a longstanding ability to destroy small businesses. Dino represents the legacy operating systems and software that small businesses continue to...

Data Loss Gremlins

With all of this talk of Goblins, Ghosts, Gremlins this month, we want to make you aware of the eight data loss gremlins. A quick introduction of them    ...