Where control often weakens, visibility fades, and asset accountability is most at risk.
The equipment in a server room may be clearly labelled. The relationships between those assets are often much harder to see.
A successful IT relocation starts long before the first piece of equipment is moved. Mapping dependencies early can help prevent unexpected outages, missed assets and difficult decisions on moving day.
Read MoreOver the past 30 years, we've watched technology evolve at an incredible pace.
We've seen servers shrink, storage capacity grow exponentially, cloud computing transform infrastructure, and businesses become more dependent on technology than ever before.
Yet despite all of that change, one thing has remained remarkably consistent.
Read MoreWhere control often weakens, visibility fades, and asset accountability is most at risk.
When organizations think about IT lifecycle management, the focus is usually on clearly defined stages: deployment, active use, maintenance, and eventual decommissioning.
What is often less clearly defined is what happens in between those stages, particularly when equipment is no longer in production use but has not yet reached its final destination.
Read MoreA new national AI strategy by the federal government this week comes at a time when the country is confronting a wave of new high-powered data centres, while public sentiment could be souring on the impacts of the new technology.
Data centres have long been under-the-radar for many Canadians, but that’s about to change.
Read MoreThe Conduent data breach has rapidly escalated into one of the most significant cybersecurity incidents in recent years, now affecting at least 25 million individuals across the United States. Originating from a ransomware attack in January 2025, the breach exposed a wide range of highly sensitive personal data, including Social Security numbers, medical records, addresses, and dates of birth.
Read MoreIn today’s data-driven business landscape, organizations generate and store more information than ever before. Customer records, financial data, internal communications, and proprietary business information are all critical assets — but when devices age or storage media become obsolete, this same data can turn into one of your greatest liabilities.
Read MoreHere’s some free advice for 2023: Delete all your personal information — and sexual content — from your electronic devices before donating them to Goodwill.
A German TikToker, who goes by the name @dankeunextgay on the platform, is going viral for detailing the juicy documents and photos he claims to have found on a $15 Apple Time Capsule he allegedly purchased from the thrift retailer.
Read MoreThe top Capital One security officer is moving to a new role in the wake of the bank’s data breach, a spokesperson confirmed to The Hill.
The reshuffling comes in the months after the bank revealed that a hacker retained access to the data of existing customers and those who had applied for credit cards, with The Wall Street Journal reporting that approximately 106 million people were affected. An outside researcher tipped off Capital One 127 days after the hacker first tried to breach the company.
Read MoreThe top Capital One security officer is moving to a new role in the wake of the bank’s data breach, a spokesperson confirmed to The Hill.
The reshuffling comes in the months after the bank revealed that a hacker retained access to the data of existing customers and those who had applied for credit cards, with The Wall Street Journal reporting that approximately 106 million people were affected. An outside researcher tipped off Capital One 127 days after the hacker first tried to breach the company.
Read MoreApple sues recycling partner for reselling more than 100,000 iPhones, iPads, and Watches it was hired to dismantle…
Read MoreThe top Capital One security officer is moving to a new role in the wake of the bank’s data breach, a spokesperson confirmed to The Hill.
The reshuffling comes in the months after the bank revealed that a hacker retained access to the data of existing customers and those who had applied for credit cards, with The Wall Street Journal reporting that approximately 106 million people were affected. An outside researcher tipped off Capital One 127 days after the hacker first tried to breach the company.
Read MoreThousands of California drivers had their Social Security numbers exposed in a data breach that gave federal agencies unauthorized access, the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) announced Tuesday, according to a report.
Read MoreEquifax is set to pay out as much as $700 million in a settlement after millions of people’s data — including in Canada — was breached in 2017. Equifax was hit by a major hack in 2017 that exposed the information of as many as 143 million Americans and 8,000 Canadians. The company said at the time that criminals had penetrated the data by exploiting an application between mid-May and July that year.
Read MoreData breach affects more than 40% of Quebec-based credit union's clients and members. An employee with "ill-intention" at Desjardins Group collected information about nearly three million people and businesses and shared it with others outside the Quebec-based financial institution. The leaked information includes names, addresses, birth dates, social insurance numbers, email addresses and information about transaction habits.
Read MoreCompanies purchased 159 drives at random on eBay, a mix of hard drives and flash (SSD) drives. After applying data recovery tools to those drives, they found that 42% of them had at least some data. Even more concerning, about three out of every 20 of the drives had personally identifiable information, including scanned images of passports and birth certificates, as well as financial records.
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