Data Zones

The business of data management has no lack of descriptive metaphors in order to help explain complex  topics or technologies. Some of them are more helpful than others. One that is particularly interesting and somewhat confounding is the "Data Lake." It is interesting in that it captures very quickly the problem space surrounding that other metaphor "Big Data" as well as the confluence of quite a number of other factors and trends that...

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10 Reasons Why You Need a Cyber Security Strategy

Over the past year, we’ve witnessed all the hype surrounding cybersecurity finally transform into a frightening new reality, one where corporate and government organizations seem helpless to stop cyber incursions. No need to list statistics or polls anymore to try to quantify the threat: Cyberattacks have become nonstop headline news. The transformation from perceived threat to actual headlines has occurred for the following reasons: Hacking,...

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An Assessment of the NIST Cyber Security Framework

Two weeks ago, the White house held a Cyber Security Summit at Stanford University to address the growing wave of high-profile Cyber Attacks. For anyone who might have missed it, about three weeks ago Anthem was hacked and nearly 80 million records with various types of patient information were stolen (although the true scope of what was taken or not still isn't entirely clear). At the end of 2014, the Sony Pictures hack had people worried that...

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