Category: contentACCESS

July 15, 2024

What data regulations should I follow?

With the world becoming more heavily regulated and the list of regulations becoming more complex, setting up a data management system, data protections, backups and archives is increasingly becoming more complex. What data regulations are in effect, and what should you pay attention to when designing your organization’s systems? 41% of small...

June 10, 2024

Storage Optimizer – Your key to savings

Introduced late last year, Storage Optimizer for Microsoft 365 continues to be the only freely available tool for analyzing your data usage and giving clear, actionable advice...

June 3, 2024

Cybersecurity in the Cloud

The adoption of the Cloud continues to grow. Gartner has found that 94% of organizations agree that public cloud is a crucial part of their digital business initiatives. While...

May 27, 2024

Lapses in healthcare cybersecurity require attention

Over the past year, two things have become increasingly clear. One is that cybercriminals are increasingly targeting the healthcare sector. The other is that lapses in healthcare...

May 20, 2024

I’m on the Cloud – why do I need backups?

The question of “why do I need backups or an archive when I’m on the Cloud” gets asked fairly frequently. After all, the Cloud provider generally keeps a backup of your data...

May 13, 2024

Designing your archiving strategy

Planning for success Archiving data in the modern day is one of the cornerstones of keeping an organization’s continuity intact; it ensures that information remains accessible...

May 6, 2024

USA pushes international cybersecurity measures

The Biden administration is set to unveil a new set of international cybersecurity measures, building on top of their existing cybersecurity focus. This comes against the...

April 22, 2024

Outdated software – a gap in security

While the world continues to focus down on improving cybersecurity in the face of increasing threats, outdated software is rapidly becoming one of the least addressed gaps in...

April 15, 2024

Should you use a Public or Private Cloud?

With a vast part of the business world continuing to migrate their data and systems to the Cloud, a bewildering array of Cloud options have sprung into being. Among the various...

April 1, 2024

NIS2 – mandatory disaster recovery

As we’ve covered previously, the cybersecurity space is becoming increasingly heavily regulated. This is nowhere more apparent than in the European Union, where a series of...

March 17, 2024

EdgeWave merges with contentACCESS Cloud

EdgeWave archive is no longer going to be on offer or available, with the domain slowly being spun down. Accordingly, EdgeWave is being merged with contentACCESS Cloud; current...

February 26, 2024

What is DORA, and how will it affect your business?

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is an EU regulation that entered into force on 16 January 2023 and will apply as of 17 January 2025. Following on to a long list of...

February 16, 2024

Arcserve Cloud Services announces End of Life

In a surprising move that has left many Managed Service Providers (MSPs) in a lurch, Arcserve, a renowned developer of storage and data protection software, has announced the...

February 12, 2024

Customer Data – A New Cybersecurity Focus

The issues surrounding cybersecurity have been a constantly reiterated theme. This included discussions of ransomware, of maintaining your business continuity, and of managing to...

February 5, 2024

Data retention and deletion – a key concern

Government regulation continues to mount regarding the future of data retention and deletion, a key aspect in national and international legislation. At the same time,...

January 29, 2024

Data Protection Day 2024

This weekend was Data Protection Day for the year 2024. On 26 April 2006 the Council of Europe decided to launch a Data Protection Day to be celebrated each year on 28 January....

January 24, 2024

What are Disaster Recovery plans and why do you need one?

Organizations worldwide are gradually becoming fully digitized, moving their critical information largely into digital formats and snowballing their data volumes. This creates a...

January 17, 2024

My company suffers from Teams bloat – what now?

Companies worldwide have made the switch to Microsoft Teams as their primary system for professional communication, driving the sales and use statistics higher with every year....

January 10, 2024

Why should you archive Microsoft Teams?

Microsoft Teams continues to grow; as 2023 comes to a close, we can look back at the last year and see the impact it has had on the business world. With the impact and growth...

January 3, 2024

Schools – the overlooked cybersecurity vulnerability

As we enter a new year, cybersecurity and protection against cyberattacks is poised to continue being a focus for organizations worldwide. This will require addressing an...