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Keeping Your Personal Information Secure

By Melody Smith | March 24, 2015

Australians fear that their government isn’t capable of handling their personal information despite a new law not yet implemented that is intended to stop terrorism.

Metadata at Home

By Melody Smith | February 10, 2015

Metadata and snail mail are working together. The United States Postal Service has reported that it approved nearly 50,000 requests last year from law enforcement agencies and its own internal inspection unit to secretly monitor the mail of Americans for use in criminal and national security investigations.

Lost and Found

By Melody Smith | January 30, 2015

Yet again, another report about data security breaches at retailers and banks. America’s largest bank, JPMorgan Chase, is one of the latest high-profile victims, and it is still reeling from this summer’s cyber attack that compromised 76 million household accounts. Law firms are not immune from this type of disaster. Recently a study reported that 15% of U.S. law firms experienced a security breach in 2012, either through hackers, a break-in, a web site exploit, or a lost or stolen computer or smartphone.

Tightening Up Security

By Melody Smith | January 12, 2015

Expert System SpA is known for their development of semantic software for the effective management of information and big data. They recently announced that together with Elettronica SpA, they are establishing a new company, CY4Gate Srl.

Metadata Retention Concerns

By Melody Smith | November 20, 2014

The proposed changes to telecommunications law in the Austrailian parliament has some worried and others concerned. Metadata retention, online privacy, and telecommunications industry worries are certainly hot topics, but how important are they to the average Australian? What is the impact on their privacy?

Keeping the Data Secure

By Melody Smith | August 15, 2014

BIO-key International has introduced a new technology that provides large-scale fingerprint matching speeds and outperforms previous fingerprint matching platforms in terms of speed.

Preventing Damage Before it Starts

By Melody Smith | June 12, 2014

Malware is the bane of any user’s existence. It harms everyone from the most naive to the competent techy guru.

Secure Storage is Needed

By Melody Smith | March 14, 2014

Most companies are worried that their existing data storage and backup plans will not provide the protection they know they need. Many organizations’ vital business data is being generated and stored on various devices, even individual employees’ personal thumb drives. Most of these devices have little to no backup process in place.

The Security of Your Data

By Melody Smith | July 4, 2013

Confidentiality of data is always a concern. With the prevalence of the web, it only becomes more of a challenge to keep your data secure. Recently in Australia, this topic was addressed in parliament after an inquiry into why hundreds of highly sensitive Fitzgerald inquiry documents, including those detailing historic investigations into some high-profile Queenslanders, had been accidentally made available to the public. In addition, thousands of others had been inadvertently shredded.

Metadata and Security

By Melody Smith | March 20, 2013

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have addressed the successful use of metadata tagging with regards to patient health data. This is in response to the push for metadata standards from way back in 2010 by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. This…