These days, most big companies and many midsize ones have some form of a data-governance program, typically including policies for data retention and destruction. They have become an imperative ...

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The Ponemon Institute issued a supplemental report to its 2012 Encryption in the Cloud Study published in February, identifying additional cloud data security trends. The study, sponsored by data ...

While it is the same in many public and private corporations, government cloud computing projects can be a double-edged sword: while cloud computing offers many benefits, it can also create numerous ...

As cloud computing becomes more common, businesses have had to contend with the challenge of protecting sensitive data during processing. Confidential computing addresses this by keeping data in use ...

In today’s fast-changing world of business regulations and data security, many leaders face privacy and protection challenges they aren’t fully prepared to handle. Most understand the basics of ...

Many organizations are adopting a “wait and see” approach to cloud computing: They’re concerned about the risks of data security. But that means they’re missing out on the benefits of the cloud. Let’s ...

For a rapidly growing network of companies with critical data, migrating to the cloud has moved from an idea to reality. But while cloud services promise rich economic benefits, scalability and ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More More than a decade into the cloud computing era, the most pressing demand ...

Cloud computing is a paradigm whereby computational resources such as computers, storage and bandwidth can be rented on a pay-for-what-you-use basis. The cloud's chief advantages are elasticity and ...