Category: Storage

Feb 11, 2015

User Controlled Encryption – Box Delivers

Ars technica reported that Box, a cloud storage provider, will give control of encryption keys to the end‑user. Box has

Feb 10, 2015

Keypad on a USB Flash Drive?

I’m a big fan of the Ironkey flash drives for security and durability. Toshiba has introduced a secure flash drive

Jan 26, 2015

Who Makes the Most Reliable Hard Disk?

Who better to answer that question than backup cloud provider Backblaze, which uses tens of thousands of consumer grade disks

Jan 08, 2015

Premium Price for 1TB SSD

Samsung has just announced a 1TB SSD drive that is the size of a credit card. The new drive has

Dec 22, 2014

What Cloud Storage Service Should You Use?

This is a question we get asked quite frequently. All too often we hear that law firms and corporations are

Dec 16, 2014

Google Services Safe for Data Storage

According to Google’s Chairman, Eric Schmidt, your data is safe from the NSA if you use Google’s services. Schmidt was

Dec 09, 2014

You Really Should Defrag Your Solid State Drive

I was fascinated to stumble across a blog post by Scott Hanselman covering the details of solid state drive defragmentation.

Nov 11, 2014

File Sharing is Leaking Data

Do you allow file sharing and cloud data storage applications to be used by the employees? Even if you don’t

Nov 06, 2014

Two 800 Pound Gorillas – Dropbox and Microsoft

Microsoft and Dropbox just announced a deal to help link Office 365 and the popular Dropbox cloud storage. The arrangement

Oct 28, 2014

Unlimited OneDrive Storage for Office 365 Users

The cloud storage wars just got interesting. You may recall that it wasn’t that long ago when Microsoft announced a

Oct 14, 2014

Data Breach Nightmare: USB Cufflinks

Some things are pretty cool and some things just scare you to death. French cuff shirts are a sign of

Sep 30, 2014

The Enemy Within: Beware the Disgruntled Employee

An interesting post at naked security reminds us that internal threats can be just as bad as hackers infiltrating our