Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

CIOs and IT directors working on any project that involves data in any way are always more likely to succeed when the organisation has a clear view of the data it holds. Increasingly, organisations ...

In today's digital landscape, organizations face an unprecedented challenge: managing and protecting ever-growing volumes of data spread across multiple environments. As someone deeply involved in ...

Data classification may not be a new concept, but it is a crucial one in the information security landscape. It’s vital because once you classify data into its type, level of access, and protection ...

In an era where sensitive data is a prime target for cyberattacks and compliance violations, effective data classification is the critical first step in safeguarding information. Recognizing the ...

When it comes to managing data, we need to know where it is – but we also need to know what it is. With the rise in regulatory controls, enterprises now pay more attention to data sovereignty, ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...