For the first time in five years, the average cost of a data breach fell. IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report found that the global average dropped 9% to $4.44 million. The report also ranked encryption among the leading controls for reducing breach costs. However, encryption is not the only way to protect […]
Introduction to What Is Big Data Security and How to Implement It In today’s world, information has become an important resource that companies can rely on to make decisions and to get to know the market and its customers. And the amount of information, as well as the frequency at which it’s available, continues to […]
In today’s post, we’ll discuss data literacy and its relevance in the context of GDPR. We start by defining data literacy and giving a brief overview of GDPR. Then we proceed to explain some of the challenges organizations might face when trying to find risk spots in their data. Finally, we give advice on how […]
Enterprises depend on realistic data for development, testing, training, and analytics. The challenge is that production data often contains names, account numbers, financial information, and other sensitive details that should not move freely into non-production environments. IBM Optim Data Privacy addresses that problem by masking sensitive values while preserving enough of the original data’s structure […]
Data is the word of the 21st century. The demand for data analysis skills has skyrocketed in the past decade. There exists an abundance of data, mostly unstructured, paired with a lack of skilled professionals and effective tools to manage and analyze it. The path to gaining data analysis skills begins with understanding the type […]