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Five Most Common Data Breaches

What is data breach? Data breaches are incidents where information is accessed without authorisation. Caused either intentionally or unintentionally, data breaches result in potentially damaging consequences. In 2018 and 2019, the biggest data breaches in the ASEAN region included the highly publicised data breach by Singapore’s Ministry of Health. The names, contact details, test results…

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What is the best way to safeguard confidential data?

An employee of a travel agency misplaced a hard disk containing confidential information of its customers, resulting in a potential data breach.  Storing information in hard disks is an antiquated method which is unreliable. By keeping confidential data solely on one medium, data will be at risk of being lost forever if hardware failure occurs.  1….

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Benefits of Colocation

Colocation is a data centre facility where businesses can rent space for servers and other computing hardware. Think of it as a space rental service – a secure space with cooling, power and bandwidth that is suitable for computing hardware to function optimally. This is especially crucial in times of emergencies e.g. power failures, flooding,…

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Top 5 Mistakes in the IT Department

MISTAKE 1Hiring IT people with no integrity, resulting in slack work and cyber crimesA recent incident involving a slack senior manager resulted in one of Singapore’s worst data breaches. SingHealth cyber attack COI: Senior manager reluctant to report attack because he did not want to deal with pressure. Outsourcing IT responsibilities to a reputable organisation with…